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…