Recorded Live and Plenary Sessions
Below you will find the recordings for each MEM Virtual Residency session.
Live Sessions
Plenary Sessions
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9:00 - 9:30 am >> Opening Keynote Session
Opening Remarks
Dean Ian Robertson opened our event. As the leader of the College of Engineering, he recognizes the importance of education, online learning, and the rapid changes that each of you are experiencing in gaining your own leadership abilities to make our world a better place to live.
Motivation Today
Heather Smith, MS
MEM Program Director
9:45 - 10:30 am >> Leadership Focus Session
Strengthening Your Engineering Leadership in a Time of Permanent Whitewater
Jeff L. Russell, MS
Jeff Russell Consulting
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10:45 - 11:15 am >> Communication Focus Session
11:30 - noon >> Marketing Focus Session
Marketing to Engineers in the New Decade
Wendy Covey
TREW Marketing
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1:00 - 2:00 pm >> Course Pilots (Concurrent Sessions)
Choose one:
Course Pilot 1 – Sales: Don’t Send a Salesperson, Send an Engineer
Chuck West, MBA and Cynthia West, EdD, MAE, MBA
Course Pilot 2 – Start-Ups: Transitioning from Engineer to Entrepreneur
Ian McIntosh, PhD, CCP
2:15 - 3:00 pm >> Instructor Panel Session
PANELISTS
- Steve King, MA
EPD 710 Foundations of Engineering Leadership Instructor - Jeffrey S. Russell, PhD, PE, Dist.M.ASCE, NAC, F.NSPE
EPD 612 Technical Project Management Instructor - Harry Steudel, PhD, PE
EPD 518 Quality Engineering and Quality Management Instructor
Facilitator: Heather Smith, MEM Program Director
Come prepared to ask your questions of these instructors and learn their views of management techniques today
3:15 - 4:00 pm >> Student/Alumni Panel Session
PANELISTS
- Theresa Krack, Class of 2014, Technical Project Manager / Aerospace Engineer
- Benjamin Ludy, Class of 2019, Engineering Director, Milwaukee Tool
- Jessie McMasters, Class of 2020, Structures Engineering Manager, Collins Aerospace
- Nilay Patel, Class of 2021, Structural Engineer, WSP USA
Facilitator: Daryl Harrison, MEM Student Services Specialist
Experience the MEM student community. Learn about life during and after MEM from current and former students. Bring the questions that only other students can answer.
4:15 - 4:45 pm >> Closing Session: Leadership in Action
What’s Next Starts Now—Leadership in Action
Susan Ottmann, MS
MSE and MEDA Program Director
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Getting Started with Residency, Heather Smith
Best Practices in Management and Leadership, Steve King
3 Tips For a Better Virtual Presentation, Christine Haas
Using the UW Library Virtually, David Bloom
UW Services Available to You, Student Services team
Fall '20 Key Dates and Program Information, Daryl Harrison
About EPD 518 Quality Engineering & Quality Mgt
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About EPD 613 Intl Engineering Strategies & Ops
About EPD 614 Marketing of Technical Professionals
About EPD 616 Engineering Law
About EPD 618 Applied Leadership & Mgt of Eng Orgs
About EPD 706 Change Management
About EPD 710 Foundations of Engineering Leadership
About EPD 712 Ethics for Professionals
About EPD 784 Project Management Fundamentals