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Global Engineering Professional Seminar ME 290

Global Engineering Professional Seminar ME 290. 1. Welcome! Please find your seat on the seating chart! 2. Sign the attendance roster as it progresses from back to front of the room— down seat columns (not across rows).

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Global Engineering Professional Seminar ME 290

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  1. Global Engineering Professional Seminar ME 290 1. Welcome! Please find your seat on the seating chart! 2. Sign the attendance roster as it progresses from back to front of the room—down seat columns (not across rows). 3. Please take your copy of the course packet from the attendance roster folder before you pass it forward.

  2. Global Engineering Professional Seminar ME 290 Week 1: August 22, 2013Today: Welcome & Introductions, Seminar Policy, Text, and Assignments

  3. Course Instructor • Dianne Atkinson, Ph.D. • Office: ME 3003B, enter via ME 3003, Main Bldg. • Hours: 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri. Email: dla@purdue.edu • Seminar Head TA: Kaitlyn Dalton • Course webpage: https://engineering.purdue.edu/MECOM/

  4. Textbook • FareedZakaria’s • Post-American • World, Release 2.0 • Available in PB, in bookstores and on Amazon.com

  5. Course Schedule • Seminar meets each week—sign in! • Begin reading Zakaria text “on your own,” note 3 quizzes in class! • Complete a professional resume (Week 3) • Complete a global profile (Week 11)

  6. Course Policies • 12 Thursday Seminars needed to earn course credit • Class participation and professional decorum encouraged—professionals have good questions!

  7. Course Materials All course materials, except the text, will be posted on our course webpage, https://engineering.purdue.edu/MECOM/ “Communications” drop down menu on ME HOME

  8. Course Grades • Text/ 3 quizzes (30%) • Global Profile and Reviewed Resume—Global Profile also posted on NSF GlobalHUB(15%) • Professional activities (10%) • Attendance (45%)

  9. ME 290 Seminar Objectives • Global Engineering Professional Issues—encourage literacy about the global professional engineering community and about global issues. • International opportunities–provide information about opportunities in the Purdue BSME program and beyond. • Global Communications—develop skills for working across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. • Professional Ethics—develop a foundation useful in making ethical decisions in the professional workplace.

  10. Professional engineering—Look back to achievements… • http://www.greatachievements.org/

  11. Professional engineering--Look forward to challenges… • Examine the National Academy of Engineering’s “Grand Challenges” • http://engineeringchallenges.org/cms/challenges.asp

  12. Your Semester Six? • Engineering Term Abroad-CHINA! • Unique among all Purdue Engineering SJTU Gate • Open to all ME’s in good standing • Offers Semester 6 coursework • Class-size group, flying to Shanghai in January, starting classes same time as Purdue —in China! Seventh year for this program! • Costs same as West Lafayette (includes air-fare), all classes count (credit transfers), no delay in graduation, go with 40 friends!

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