Member Assembly at Annual Meeting Focuses on Whats Happening...

Member Assembly at Annual Meeting Focuses on Whats Happening... Member Assembly at Annual Meeting Focuses on Whats Happening... Member Assembly at Annual Meeting Focuses on Whats Happening at ASMEJune 15, 2018 ASME President Charla Wise (right) and ASME Executive Director Thomas Costabile welcomed the audience to the Member Assembly at the ASME Annual Meeting on June 3. During a special Member Assembly on June 3 at the ASME Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, ASME volunteers had the opportunity to learn about some of the programs and products that are being developed in two of the five core technology areas that the Society has identified as key to its future success. The session, titled Whats Happening at ASME, was inspired by a program that was launched earlier this year to inform staff members on recent strategy-related activities that are currently underway at ASME.ASME President Charla Wise provided opening remarks for the lively session, pointing to the recent strides ASME vo lunteers and staff have made toward helping the Society achieve its strategic objectives. These include the adoption of an Integrated Operating Plan that ensures that the Societys operations and budgets are aligned, increased collaboration between the Societys departments and volunteer groups on projects and programs, and the launching of new products, courses, standards and events in the five core technology areas manufacturing, clean energy, bioengineering, pressure technology and robotics. (Left to right) Christine Reilley, ASMEs business development director for healthcare, and Ross Ethier, chair of the ASME Bioengineering Division, discussed ASMEs bioengineering-related activities during the Member Assembly.As we begin to see our strategic programs take shape, theres an excitement in the air, Wise said. This change is necessary for ASME to remain competitive and relevant into the 21st century. Wise introduced ASMEs new Executive Director, Tom Costabile, who also welcomed the audience, and then introduced Jeff Patterson, ASMEs chief operating officer, who took the stage to offer a brief overview of the five core technologies before introducing the sessions four presenters Prof. Ross Ethier and Christine Reilley, who discussed the Societys activities in the area of bioengineering, and Gloria Wiens and Raj Manchanda, who talked about the work ASME was pursuing related to manufacturing. (Left to right) Gloria Wiens of the Design Materials & Manufacturing Segment Leadership gruppe (DMM SLT) and Raj Manchanda, director, business development, Manufacturing & Robotics at ASME, provided attendees of the Member Assembly with updates on the DMM SLT and the manufacturing market.Dr. Ethier, the Lawrence L. Gellerstedt Jr. Chair in Bioengineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and chair of the ASME Bioengineering Division, provided the audience with some history of the Bioengineering Division which began as the Human Factors Division in 1956 and pointed out so me of the divisions recent initiatives, which included changing the bylaws and composition of the executive committee to include more industry members and encourage diversity sponsoring an ASME Congressional Fellowship beginning this summer acting as a resource for ASME staff and the Technology Advisory Panels (TAPs) and creating new bioengineering-related content.Ethier and Reilley also discussed an important new resource for bioengineering content ASMEs Alliance of Advanced Biomedical Engineering (AABME), an initiative designed to bring together members of the biomedical engineering community to encourage collaboration and information sharing across disciplines. Launched in April 2017, the AABME.org website serves as a reliable neutral convener and content provider, bridges the gap between research and industry, and offers a wide sortiment of professional and networking resources. (Left to right) Ross Ethier fields a question from the audience during the question-and-answer secti on of the Member Assembly, with fellow presenters Christine Reilley, Gloria Wiens, Raj Manchanda, and moderator Jeff Patterson, chief operating officer of ASME.Christine Reilley, ASMEs business development director for healthcare, discussed several events and programs for the bioengineering community that have already been introduced, including the new event AABME CONNECT Where Biomedicine and Engineering Come Together, held last month in Minneapolis, as well as the Transforming Imaging Data Into Treatment Planning standards gap analysis workshop, which was co-hosted with the Society for Thermal Medicine in May. Upcoming initiatives include the Maturing Cell Therapy Logistics workshop, to be held July in Washington, D.C., in collaboration with the Organ Preservation Alliance and the Society for Cryobiology the eLearning course Cellular Therapy Manufacturing for Engineers, which will launch this summer and the establishment of Bioengineering Lexicon, a tool that identifies and define s terms with different meanings among engineers, clinicians and scientists. The Bioengineering Lexicon will launch on AABME.org in late 2018. Gloria Wiens of the Design Materials Manufacturing Segment Leadership Team (DMM SLT) and Raj Manchanda, director, business development, Manufacturing Robotics at ASME, next discussed ASMEs activities related to the field of manufacturing. Dr. Wiens provided an overview of the DMM SLT, which is a subject-matter-expert team comprised of design and manufacturing authorities from industry, academia, government and ASME staff. The DMM SLT is currently taking on a number of new initiatives, including developing a plan to improve the conference paper review process, communicating more frequently with technical divisions, and identifying subject matter experts for e-Learning courses, industry forums, Technology Advisory Panels, and other new initiatives. (Left to right) ASME President Charla Wise, Raj Manchanda, Gloria Wiens, Ross Ethier, Christin e Reilley, ASME COO Jeff Patterson, and ASME Executive Director Thomas Costabile at the Member Assembly on June 3.Manchanda next provided a manufacturing market overview, discussing the business opportunities that ASME sees in the sector. Additive manufacturing (AM) is a market that shows particular promise, Manchanda said, noting that global growth for the market is projected at approximately 25 percent between 2017 and 2020, according to Credit Suisse estimates, and that AM has particular opportunities for growth in the areas of customer specific design, lightweight structures, part consolidation, and on-demand localized production.ASME is currently developing a number of products and services for the manufacturing sector, Manchanda said, including a Design for Additive Manufacturing with Metals eCourse to be launched in the third quarter of this year the new Additive Manufacturing Leadership Summit, which will be held at PTC LiveWorx in Boston this month and the development of se veral standards, including the Y14.46 Product Definition for Additive Manufacturing standard, a draft of which was issued last year.

Why Sports are Worth Talking About at Work

Why Sports are Worth Talking About at WorkWhy Sports are Worth Talking About at WorkAndrew Faircloth and Brent Macon were management consultants for three years (Andrew with Bain Co., Brent with McKinsey Co.). They started Primer Sports in August to help outgoing professionals use sports to connect with people in the workplace and beyond. Both are first-time entrepreneurs. Over the coming weeks, they will discuss some of the issues they have faced so far in their journey from consultants to entrepreneurs, and how their career experiences to date have helped them.Sports are a great social lubricant a cultural framework that allows professionals to self-identify and connect with others. Consulting welches our first real-world job experience, and we quickly found that most how was your weekend? conversations centered around one of three things kids, weather, and sports.We couldnt relate to having kids, and the weather as a topic gets dry fast. Sports, on the other hand, were a common ground that we consistently used to form and solidify relationships with colleagues and clients alike. A known sports interest can become a go-to conversation starter when seeing someone at work, whether youre discussing their alma mater, hometown gruppe, or Fantasy team performance.Talking sports in the office to build rapport is hardly a novel concept, but we believe there are some commonly-held misconceptions. When we were deciding to launch Primer, part of our due diligence was talking to hundreds of busy professionals about their sports-fan habits, and here are two of our surprising but consistent takeawaysMany people dont know as much about sports as you might thinkThe 24/7 sports media onslaught makes it seem as though everyone is constantly reading their Twitter feed, checking their Fantasy team(s), and closely following the latest news about their favorite teams. In reality, people are busy. Life gets in the way of watching sports on the weekend.You dont need to be an exper t to chime in and add value to a sports conversationGeneral awareness of a story, a fun fact, or a timely question to ask someone who knows more about an issue can help someone be part of the sports banter at work without feeling left out. Some great conversationalists we spoke with dont know a ton about sports, but make sure to ask their colleagues that do what they thought about the headline stories from the weekend.Regardless of your level of knowledge, here are some easy-to-follow tips for upping your conversational ability, and how we used them when we were consultantsMake it a habitEven if you have fewer than 2 minutes a day to spend on sports, scan the headlines of the sports news publication thats most relevant to you. For us, this meant reading the sports section in the city of our projects.Set a Google alertIf theres a team/league/issue thats particularly important to someone in your life, set an alert and get a daily news update. We did this regularly for a clients favori te team.Share your own fandomThis is a two-way street people want to talk to you about your school or hometown team. We let clients know we were fans of our alma mater (go Tar Heels) and they brought it up regularly.Our goal with Primer Sports is to equip our readers to always have a sports conversation topic in their repertoire. We try to add context and a backstory to news topics to make it clear why theyre interesting and conversational. Over the coming weeks well be sharing some of our reflections as first-time founders and how weve used the consulting toolkit in our new entrepreneurial roles. We hope youll enjoy following, and wed love to hear from you with thoughts, questions, or ideas.Brent and Andrew can be contacted at Primerteamprimersports.com

How to Negotiate Salary for a First Job After College

How to Negotiate Salary for a First Job After CollegeHow to Negotiate Salary for a First Job After CollegeWhen thinking aboutsalary negotiations, its important to know what it takes to strike the best deal you can with an employer prior to accepting a job. As a student just graduating from college, you may be thinking that youre just happy you got the job and that you know the company will offer you the best salary they can. Wrong Why You Should Negotiate Negotiating salary can seem scary, and you may not feel you have any negotiating power as a new graduate just out of college. The truth is that even in the salary negotiation phase the employer is leise evaluating you and your ability to communicate and compromise in a business situation. You will want to communicate the value of your college education along with any relevant experience you have acquired over the last four years. Be sure to consider your leadership positions while in college along with any research, internships, or community service projects youve completed as well. The First Step First, evaluate the going rate for similar jobs in the same location. Resources such as The Occupational Outlook Handbook can provide you with information on the median salary for each type of job as well as information about what the job entails and the type of training required. Next, evaluate yourself and what you bring to the table. Have you done any internships? How well did you do in college? Do you have strong leadership skills developed through coursework, clubs or sports participation? All of behauptung things can count when an employer evaluates the totality of your previous experience. Health, Dental and Other Benefits When negotiating salary, its also important to take into consideration the benefits package. Benefits can be costly and if the employer picks up a good percentage of health and dental benefits, provides a retirement match, tuition assistance to assist in your professional develop ment, plus ample sick and vacation time, you must consider these when evaluating the base salary. Ongoing Negotiations Salary negotiations are not a one-time deal. You will also want to establish what the companys expectations are from the very beginning and have an open discussion on how you will be able to grow over time within the organization. Will you be evaluated on an annual basis and are there salary increases or bonuses if you do a good job? How to Name Your Price When negotiating a salary, you probably will not get everything you want, so its important to increase the amount youd like to get by 10 percent 15 percent in hopes of coming out even. When you do receive an offer from the employer, be sure to ask the employer if the offer is negotiable. Never give your acceptance of a job offer on the spot let the employer know that you want to think about it and ask how quickly do they want to hear back. Several days is usually a fair amount of time to think over any job offer. Also, make sure you get the offer in writing before making a final decision. Once you accept a job offer, you are technically off the market. If you are in negotiations with any other employers, be sure to let them know that you have accepted another offer and thank them for their time. Getting the Best Deal At the end of negotiations, both parties should feel that negotiations resulted in a win-win situation. You want to feel good about what you have negotiated, but you also want the employer to feel that he was able to get an excellent employee for a fair wage and that the negotiations were beneficial to both parties.