Tuesday-Wednesday	8:00am-4:00pm		Professional Power: Removing Roadblocks To Career Success
Tuesday	8:00am-5:00pm		Creative Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills for Engineering Innovation
	8:00am-5:00pm		Reaching Agreement: An Advanced Negotiation Skills Seminar
	8:00am-12:00pm		Developing Productive, High-Performance Workplaces
Tuesday or Wednesday	8:00am-12:00pm		An Overview of Project Management Fundamentals
Tuesday	1:00pm-5:00pm		Conducting Project Management in this High-Risk Business Environment
Wednesday	8:00am-12:00pm		Networking and Alliance Building: Contacts that Count in Career Development
			The Experienced Engineer as a Mentor and Coach
	12:30pm-4:00pm		Do-It-Yourself Intellectual Property Protection - Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights

Continuing Education Unit (CEU) credits and certificates are included in all Career Enhancement Series (CES) programs. Lunch is not included in any of these programs. Professional Development Hours (PDH) are listed by each course.

PROFESSIONAL POWER: REMOVING ROADBLOCKS TO CAREER SUCCESS
Edit Rodas-Carroll and Ms. Flores-New
$290 • class size: 40
Tuesday and Wednesday, 8:00am–4:00pm
12 PDH

An intensive two-day course about achieving what you truly want out of life—both professionally and personally. Project a polished, credible, professional image that complements your engineering expertise. Express your personal power in the way you walk, your tonality and your gestures. Understand the "software" of your mind and how to "reprogram" it to serve you. Master the art of "impression management" by using videotaping so you can visualize results, and get in touch with your outward appearance to support you in all of your endeavors.

Edit Rodas-Carroll, Founder and Director of The NLP Center of Texas, and Kelly M. Flores-New, President of Kelly M, Image Specialist, help women improve their image and interpersonal effectiveness. Ms. Rodas-Carroll, an NLP trainer and Fellow of the International Association of Neurolinguistic Programming, has been teaching individuals and corporate teams how to enhance communications and team performance since 1982. Ms. Flores-New has assisted professional women in designing a career wardrobe for ten years.

CREATIVE THINKING AND PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS FOR ENGINEERING INNOVATION
Marcia Lynn Segal
$150 • class size: 50
Tuesday 8:00am–5:00pm
7.5 PDH

Innovation requires new thinking systems, attitudes and behaviors. Using a creative-thinking paradigm positions teams on the leading edge. We all have the capacity to generate innovation in our own style. To successfully implement new ideas, individuals and teams must generate novel approaches and evaluate them for originality, appropriateness and usefulness. Generating creative ideas may involve unique ways of thinking, but the result must be something that ordinary thinking people can understand, appreciate and use. If your business and career are to survive and prosper, chances are you need to improve your personal and team capacity to innovate. This seminar explains creativity and innovation, using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® to highlight several attitudes and styles of creating. Practice structured methodologies that you can use with your work team to attack difficult business and technological problems.

Marcia (Marci) Lynn Segal, Creative Problem Solving, has been an International Creativity Specialist since 1984. Her technology and communications clients span the globe. Ms. Segal studied at the Centre for Studies in Creativity and is senior faculty at the Creative Problem Solving Institute in Buffalo, NY. She has been working with Motorola since 1992 as the master trainer for their Creative Manager course.

REACHING AGREEMENT: AN ADVANCED NEGOTIATION SKILLS SEMINAR
E. Wendy Trachte-Huber and Georgette Michko
$125 • class size: 50
Tuesday, 8:00am–5:00pm
7.5 PDH

Negotiation takes place all the time, playing a vital role in getting what you want in both your professional and personal life. Yet, many people view negotiation as an onerous exercise. In this session, you will learn skills necessary to help you become a successful negotiator and also to appreciate the negotiation process. You will learn the fundamental elements of negotiations, how to outline your goals, how to anticipate what the other side will do, what you should do in response and how to handle conflict creatively. The program includes a copy of Dr. Trachte-Huber's book, Negotiation: Strategies for Law and Business.

Dr. E. Wendy Trachte-Huber is the Director of the A.A. White Dispute Resolution Institute, a non-profit organization engaged in teaching and research in the dispute resolution field. She has extensive experience in the dispute resolution field serving as an ombudsperson, mediator, negotiator, attorney and dispute resolution system consultant. She is an Executive Professor at the University of Houston College of Business Administration where she teaches "Environmental Laws and Regulations" and "Negotiations in a Diverse Environment." Georgette Michko is an active SWE member who recently earned a graduate certificate in Dispute Resolution.

DEVELOPING PRODUCTIVE, HIGH-PERFORMANCE WORKPLACES
Barbara Reinhold
$75 • class size: 40
Tuesday, 8:00am–12:00noon
3.5 PDH

Toxic work is everybody's problem. In this era of non-stop change and increasing international competition, it is essential to the bottom line that companies provide a safe, high morale workplace. Dr. Reinhold will teach technical supervisors and managers ways to improve workgroup productivity by creating a more productive environment. Participants will review methods to structure their own work teams to reduce stress and improve performance.

Dr. Barbara Reinhold is Director of Career Development at Smith College, a professor for the Management Program and author of Toxic Work. She has analyzed research on the effects of stress on worker health and productivity and consults for Polaroid, Lego Systems and Praxis.

AN OVERVIEW OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS
Jan Dillard and MaryGrace Allenchey
$75 • class size: 40 each
Tuesday or Wednesday 8:00am–12:00noon
3.5 PDH

The seminar will focus on the fundamentals of project management for engineers with limited experience. After exploring the Project Management Institute's "Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK), participants will examine a project management model using these fundamentals. Obtain a foundation in project management basics or set the stage for further professional development within the discipline.

Jan Dillard, PhD and Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), leads the Project Management Center of Excellence (PMCE), a division of Project Management Services, Inc. (PMSI) in Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Dillard provides strategic direction and leadership for the Center, ensuring that all offerings are focused on applying knowledge and techniques to real-word situations. MaryGrace Allenchey, PMP, is PMCE's Certification Director and the Director of Certification for the Project Management Institute. Ms. Allenchey is responsible for project management instruction, coaching and mentoring, and PMCE's professional competency model. Dr. Dillard and Ms. Allenchey have experience in project management, information technology and facilitation and enhancement of overall communication among people, departments or groups involved in any given project. PMSI is an independent "third party" provider of project management and support services, with over 750 projects valued in excess of $8 billion, in a wide variety of industries.

CONDUCTING PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN THIS HIGH-RISK BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
Jan Dillard and MaryGrace Allenchey
$90 • class size: 40
Tuesday, 1:00–5:00pm
3.5 PDH

In our high risk society, the risk/reward principles of the financial markets rule. The economic turbulence of open markets, business restructuring, and technological advances are actually the greatest engines for business growth. To thrive, we must embrace and effectively manage project risk. This course will present the concepts and techniques you need to succeed with projects in this high risk environment.

Jan Dillard, PhD and Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), leads the Project Management Center of Excellence (PMCE), a division of Project Management Services, Inc. (PMSI) in Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Dillard provides strategic direction and leadership for the Center, ensuring that all offerings are focused on applying knowledge and techniques to real-word situations. MaryGrace Allenchey, PMP, is PMCE's Certification Director and the Director of Certification for the Project Management Institute. Ms. Allenchey is responsible for project management instruction, coaching and mentoring, and PMCE's professional competency model. Dr. Dillard and Ms. Allenchey have experience in project management, information technology and facilitation and enhancement of overall communication among people, departments or groups involved in any given project. PMSI is an independent "third party" provider of project management and support services, with over 750 projects valued in excess of $8 billion, in a wide variety of industries.

NETWORKING & ALLIANCE BUILDING: CONTACTS THAT COUNT IN CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Donna Fisher
$75 • class size: 75
Wednesday, 8:00am–12:00noon
3.5 PDH

Build a network, and watch your career grow. Real job security and career success come from one's contacts, relationships and sense of self. Learn to develop a life-long support network where people connect, relate, nurture, support and empower each other. By combining resources, networkers can achieve more together than any of them could alone. Expanding your network and developing strategic alliances with colleagues are powerful career development tools. By graciously and courteously supporting others, you can develop a support structure to assist you in improving your career prospects. Let Donna show you what to do today and back at your office to prepare yourself for your next big career opportunity.

Donna Fisher, co-author of Power Networking and People Power, leads seminars in networking and career development. As a motivational speaker and corporate trainer, she inspires and educates people to take action to improve their people skills and build networks.

THE EXPERIENCED ENGINEER AS MENTOR AND COACH
Pegine Echevarria
Wednesday, 8:00am–12:00noon

DO-IT-YOURSELF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION— PATENTS, TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHTS
Bob Mason and Jim Petruzzi
$75 • class size: 40
Wednesday, 12:30–4:00pm
3 PDH

Learn to protect your intellectual property through copyrights, trademarks, patents and trade secrets. Learn to prepare applications by yourself for each form of protection in the U.S. Copyright Office and Patent and Trademark Office. How and when, or why not, to apply for foreign rights will also be discussed. Participants will actually complete a sample copyright registration form, trademark application and patent application. Particular emphasis will be on handling basic matters yourself, including drafting patent, trademark and copyright applications to dramatically reduce attorney expenses. To illustrate do-it-yourself patent applications, participants will be using PatentPro™ software to prepare utility patent applications.

Bob Mason and Jim Petruzzi, partners in an intellectual property law firm, have over 12 years experience representing clients in the acquisition of intellectual property rights and the enforcement of those rights before federal and state courts. They developed PatentPro™, an innovative patent application software, designed to interact with inventors as a patent attorney would.