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…