ASME Annual Meeting to Explore Emerging Challenges Faced by the Engineering Industry

John Varrasi
ASME Communications

The 2008 ASME Annual Meeting this June (formerly the ASME Summer Annual Meeting) will bring together senior-level engineering executives from leading firms — IBM, Westinghouse Electric, and Boeing, among others — and other distinguished speakers to assess the emerging business challenges facing the engineering profession.

The agenda for the meeting also offers guidelines and strategies for career growth in the rapidly evolving workplace.

Michael Rogers, Futurist-in-Residence at The New York Times Company, will chair and moderate the plenary sessions at the Congress.

The 2008 ASME Annual Meeting will be held June 7–11, at Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The meeting's program consists of plenary sessions, workshops, professional development sessions, and a Career Expo.

Based on the theme "Innovative Partnering: Interdisciplinary Challenges to Designing the Future," the meeting will enable engineers to learn about and explore emerging business challenges in the profession and how to cope with these challenges through skills enhancement. Topics to be covered will include key trends and management challenges; collaborations and partnerships; managing virtual teams; negotiation and consensus building; project management, and other keys to success in tomorrow's engineering workplace.

The plenary sessions are titled "Envisioning the Future," "Critical Skills Needed to Overcome 21st-Century Challenges," and "Partnering: Interdisciplinary Approaches Are the Keys to Success." Each plenary session will run for 90 minutes and will feature expert commentary from CEO and vice president-level corporate decision-makers, academic scholars, and business consultants. Michael Rogers, futurist-in-residence at The New York Times Company, will chair and moderate the plenary sessions. Rogers is one of the nation's leading authorities on the impact of technology on business.

Workshops will explore the subjects treated in the plenary sessions, although in greater depth. The 90-minute workshops will provide a forum for questions and answers between speakers and attendees.

The professional development program at the meeting will focus on building career skills that are critical to success in the evolving marketplace. It will also cover two of ASME's most popular technical codes and standards, the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code and the Y14.5 Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Standard.

The 2008 ASME Annual Meeting also will include meetings of the Society's Board of Governors and volunteer committees and a social program. For information, visit www.asmeconferences.org/annualmeeting08 or call (866) 519-1299.

 

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