school of mechanical engineering global engineering professional seminar 1.please place resumes with...

School of Mechanical Engineering

Global Engineering Professional Seminar

1. Please place resumes with attached reviews in brown “attendance” folders

2. Hand-outs today: ME School’s Spring 2015 ME Semester 6 in China—ETA-SJTU in Shanghai, PRC!

3. Reminders: Grades, Blackboard availability, Supplements.4. Next week: Quiz, Chapters 1, 2, 3—10 questions! Also

resumes returned, PESC Roundtable Info—Kara Steffen.

ME 290 Week 3: September 5, 2013

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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

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Textbook/Quizzes

• Fareed Zakaria’s Post-American World, Release 2.0

• Available in PB, in bookstores and on Amazon.com; hardback, with blue/white cover, also fine.

• Quiz next week over Chap 1, 2, 3—about 100 pages: Globalization, power diversification, “rise of the rest,” shifts in corporate structure, consumption pattern changes…

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Your Semester Six?› ME’s Engineering Term Abroad

› No delay in graduation!

› No additional cost! Compares to on-campus, W.Lafayette costs (no change in tuition).

› Shanghai Jiao Tong University located in major metropolitan area, financial center of the world’s fastest growing economy!

› See it for yourself! Go with 40 Purdue ME’s!

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› Let’s ask our two guests today, program alums from Spring 2013:

› Kat Frangoes, ETA program “CEO” for Spring 2013, dance team choreographer, travel coordinator and “organizer-in-chief”

› Nitesh Bajaj, program’s Skype “commentator-in-chief,” Cummins, Inc. GEARE intern in China, post ETA-semester

Too good to be true??

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›Resumes returned next week…

›PESC Roundtable Jobs Fair…overview, prep for Tuesday, Wednesday following

› Introduce “profile” assignment

›Following weekly seminar—first outside speaker!

Looking ahead…