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New
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Conference
2009 |
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Session
2: Working Across Generations
Description
Your workplace is likely populated with colleagues from four different
generations and with strikingly different communication styles, motivations,
work styles, values, attitudes towards work, learning styles and levels of
commitment. Instant messaging may seem
to be adequate communication for a Gen Y worker, while older workers might
wonder “Why won’t she talk to me?”
Younger workers may be motivated by money or advancement while older
workers can be highly motivated by family time and vacation. During this interactive workshop led by
speakers from diverse generations you will:
Take an assessment to find
whether your values and motivation align with the Veterans (or Matures), the
Baby Boomers, the members of Generation X, or the young Gen Yers.
Identify the dominant work
values, emotions & styles in today’s workforce based on age differences.
Learn 10 strategies for dealing
with Generational Diversity that you can take back to your workplace.
Speakers Jeanne Trinko Mechler, is a member of the Baby Boomer generation. She’s a senior technical staff electrical
engineer with 23 years of experience in ASIC (application specific integrated
circuit) chip design with the IBM Systems & Technology Group in Essex
Junction, VT. She works on a daily basis with design teams and customers from
India, China, Japan, Germany, and all over the United States and has traveled
frequently to teach classes to customers and IBM design center engineers in
those locations. She received the M.S.
and B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Vermont in 1989 and
1985 respectively, and the M.S. in engineering management from the National
Technological University in 1992. She
holds patents and has published papers in the areas of design for test,
reliability, failure analysis, and ASIC design. She has completed more than a two dozen
ASIC chip designs, specializing in those containing High Speed SerDes and is
the author of the engineering textbook High Speed SerDes Devices and
Applications. She is a member of
the Technical Program committee for the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits
Conference 2004-present. She is a
senior life member of the Society of Women Engineers, and a member of the
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, the National Engineers Week, EX.I.T.E.,
and technical education outreach committees for IBM, and a Girl Scout
Leader. She resides in Essex Junction,
VT with her husband and three children, ages 11, 12, and 16. She has very little spare time, but does manage
to enjoy photography and site-seeing in exotic places! Maureen
Masiulis, is
a Gen Y worker from General Dynamics, Advanced Information Services who is
working on her Masters Degree in Engineering Management. Maureen
graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2003 with a dual degree in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems Engineering. Upon graduating from
RPI she joined General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems in Pittsfield,
Massachusetts as a member of the Engineering Leadership Program.
Maureen now leads as a cross functional team responsible for designing a new
data system intended for Ohio Class Submarines. Maureen is also a member of a
committee that provides guidance for current Engineering Leadership Program
members. Maureen received a
Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University
of Massachusetts Amherst in 2006 and is currently pursuing a Master of
Business Administration through the UMASS Amherst Part-Time Online MBA
program. When not working, Maureen enjoys participating in local community
events, SWE Regional and National Committees, playing softball, swimming,
biking, and running. Teresa Berra, is a
non-traditional college student at Smith College who returned to school at
the age of 34 and is a member of “Generation X”. Her first career was in the
heath care field as a pediatric, critical care nursing assistant. When she
decided that the health care field was not the avenue she wished to pursue
for the long term she left to work in the restaurant business as a baker.
Although she found baking to be creatively satisfying, she found herself
frustrated with the career prospects that she had without a college degree.
In 2005 she decided to enroll at Greenfield Community College where sherediscovered
her aptitude and love of math and science and completed her Associates Degree
in 2007. In 2007 Teresa was accepted to Smith College through the Ada
Comstock program for non-traditional students and was also a recipient of a
SMART scholarship sponsored by the Department of Defense. During the summer
of 2008 she interned at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) in Dahlgren,
VA where she worked with the Electromagnetic Raligun team. After graduation
this May she is taking a position with NSWC working in the Electromagnetic
and Sensor Systems division. Her Senior Design Clinic project has been the
design of a system for 3-D tracking of personnel, a project sponsored by Lincoln
Laboratories. The engineering program has been the challenge she was looking
for and is looking forward to having an opportunity to use her experiences to
provide mentoring or encouragement for other young women and non-traditional
students to explore the possibilities of careers in engineering. Karen
Horton, University of Maine Karen Horton joined the MET faculty
in the Fall of 1997 from Bath Iron Works where she worked for five years in
Noise, Shock and Vibration building Aegis Destroyers. Prior to pursuing her
Masters Degree she spent three years as a Mechanical Engineer at the Naval
Coastal Systems Center in Panama City, Flordia, then taught Math and
Electronics for a year at Ramstein American High School, Germany. Professor Horton teaches Introduction to
Mechanical Engineering Technology, Strengths of Materials, Engineering
Materials, Industrial Vibrations, and independent study courses. She has also
taught Technical Drawing, Manufacturing Technology, Introduction to CAD/CAM,
Fluid Flow Technology, CAD/CAM Projects, and Virtual Preservation of
Archeological Structures. Prof. Horton serves as the counselor
to the student section of the Society of Women Engineers and encourages young
women to pursue engineering as a career. She also serves as Vice President of
the (professional) Maine Section of SWE. She directs the Creative
Design at CAD Camp, an annual resident or commuter summer
experience for high school students focusing on team building and creating
art using computer-aided design. |
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