Butch Shadwell has been working in electronics since he was 12 years old.  Starting with vacuum tube technology, he has designed systems through the evolution of transistors, SSI, MSI, and LSI.  In his extraordinary career he has worked with almost every kind of technology in the electronics industry.  Including advanced R&D in nuclear medicine, opto-electronics, electronic warfare, robotics, industrial automation, machine vision, artificial intelligence, digital television, special sensors and embedded microcontrollers.

A senior member of the IEEE, for the last twenty years Mr. Shadwell has been authoring the Brain Teaser Challenge, a monthly humorous column with a technical challenge inside.  It is published in a number of IEEE newsletters and magazines worldwide.  Readers are encouraged to send in their answers.

He has conducted sponsored research at Carnegie-Mellon Robotics Institute and received over $1.5 million in grants for his work in machine vision.  For the past ten years he has had a successful consulting practice developing new technologies for over a dozen companies.  His clients include multi-billion dollar companies, and as an active volunteer in IEEE has been a featured speaker at many universities, sections, and student branches around Region 3 and Jamaica.  In 2009 he was selected as the international chair of the Humanitarian Technology Challenge – Reliable Electricity. 

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ENGINEERING CAREER STRATEGIES

This is the ultimate tutorial on how to have the best career possible in the fields of applied physical science and engineering.  Specific information on interviewing, graduate school, winning the talent competition, and optimizing your income and standard of living will be offered.  If you want to be able to take control of your professional future, you will want to attend this talk.

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN ENGINEERING

In the global economy the competition has become much stronger.  Every technical professional must adopt an entrepreneurial attitude and understanding of what it takes to succeed in the new global market place of technical talent.

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