School of Mechanical Engineering 1.Welcome! Please locate your seat on the seating chart provided (gold paper, 3 pages, alphabetical order). 2.Please take a syllabus (white paper, 4 pages) from the brown folders that travel from back to front. 3.Please sign in the space provided for your seat assignment. Your signature is the basis for attendance points. Global Engineering Professional Seminar ME 290

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School of Mechanical Engineering Global Engineering Professional Seminar ME 290 Week 1: August 28, 2014 Today: Welcome & Introductions, Seminar Lecture Schedule, Seminar Organization and Policies

Global Engineering Professional Seminar Fall ›Instructor: Dianne Atkinson, Ph.D. ›Office: ME 3003B, End of hallway, third floor of main building. ›Hours: 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri. ›Seminar Head TA: Greg Reifke, ›Webpage: ›Course Blog: link ed week 2 Course connections

Global Engineering Professional Seminar Fall ›Three general categories: – 1. Globalization, 2. Area/country-specific issues, 3. Global leadership ›Readings are provided as “permalinks” to Purdue Library resources or as web addresses (first two already posted) › Find readings by logging onto ME 290 Blackboard. ›Comments, discussion on ME 290 Blog, Foundational Readings

Global Engineering Professional Seminar Fall ›Work on professional documents— resume (Week 2!), intro video, global profile ›Discuss readings, use course “blog,” go over study questions, take two quizzes Complete a global profile. ›Consider professional ethics. ›Interact with outside speakers and learn about ME global opportunities. › ›Learn about ME global opportunities › Course Components….

Global Engineering Professional Seminar Fall ›12 Thursday Seminars needed to earn course credit—30 points credited for 15 seminars ›Class participation and professional decorum encouraged—please no laptops, cell phones, ear phones! Course Policies

Global Engineering Professional Seminar Fall Course Information Information and announcements will be posted on our course website edu/MECOM/ edu/MECOM/ “Communications” drop down menu on ME HOME

Global Engineering Professional Seminar Fall ›Intro video—10 points ›Resume—10 points ›Professional activities— visits, pictures—10 points ›Profile—20 points ›Quizzes (2)—20 points ›Attendance—30 points Seminar Grades

Global Engineering Professional Seminar Fall ME 290 Seminar Objectives 1.Global Engineering Professional Issues—encourage literacy about the global professional engineering community and about global issues. 2.International opportunities–provide information about opportunities in the Purdue BSME program and beyond. 3.Global Communications—develop skills for working across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. 4.Professional Ethics—develop a foundation useful in making ethical decisions in the professional workplace.

Global Engineering Professional Seminar Fall Professional engineering— Look back to achievements… ›

Global Engineering Professional Seminar Fall Professional engineering--Look forward to challenges… ›Examine the National Academy of Engineering’s “Grand Challenges”Examine the National Academy of Engineering’s “Grand Challenges” ›

Global Engineering Professional Seminar Fall 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! 2014 is 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!