Carl Selinger is Principal of Carl Selinger Services, a consultancy in aviation and transportation that develops business strategy and applies new technology. His forty-year career includes thirty years at The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, where he left as Manager of Aviation Business Development. Carl has been an adjunct college professor with over thirty-five years teaching transportation, aviation and marketing courses at The Cooper Union School of Engineering and at SUNY Maritime Global Business and Transportation. He holds civil and transportation engineering degrees from Cooper Union, Yale University, and NYU-Poly, and is a faculty adviser to the Cooper Union Chapter of Tau Beta Pi.

Carl originated his unique seminar — "Stuff you don't learn in engineering school" — to help engineers learn the non-technical soft skills that are important to being effective and happier in the real world. Carl has given this seminar to several thousand engineers during the past twenty years, around the US, Canada and recently in Scotland.

Carl is very involved in IEEE, having given dozens of "Stuff" talks/seminars to S-PACs, GOLD & WIE chapters, and local IEEE sections. He is a Contributing Editor for IEEE Spectrum magazine where he has written two dozen articles on professional skills. His book is an IEEE trade best-seller: Stuff you Don’t Learn in Engineering School: Skills for Success in the Real World (Wiley-IEEE Press). He has several tutorials posted on IEEE's eLearning site. An interview on IEEE “Meet the Authors” is at: https://ieeetv.ieee.org/player/html/viewer#carl-selinger-stuff-you-dont-learn-in-engineering-school.

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STUFF YOU DON’T LEARN IN ENGINEERING SCHOOL

Engineers today start their careers with excellent technical skills and subject-matter expertise. However, they are often less able to cope with the people, procedures and pressures of the real world. This one-hour presentation -- a two-hour presentation can be requested -- discusses a dozen important soft skills engineers need to know to be more effective in work and in life, using straight talk and down-to-earth examples. Skills covered include: decision-making; setting priorities and managing time; working in teams; people skills, starting with better understanding of yourself and others; leadership skills; being more creative; negotiating; getting feedback; dealing with stress and having fun; and, of course, improving speaking, writing and listening. Signed copies of Selinger's book -- Stuff You Don't Learn in Engineering School: Skills for Success in the Real World (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2004) -- is often raffled off to attendees at S-PACs.

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