Schedule

Register Now! October 12-14, 2006, Kansas City Convention Center, Kansas City, MO

SWE 2006 Conference Schedule Overview
For a complete chronological schedule with rooms, download the 2006 Pocket Guide

Monday, October 9, 2006

TIME	TRACK	EVENT NAME
8:00am – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Board of Directors Meeting and Lunch

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

TIME	TRACK	EVENT NAME
5:00 –- 7:00pm	Registration & Services	Volunteer Reception
6:00 – 8:00pm	Registration & Services	Registration
8:00am – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Board of Directors Meeting
8:00am – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Board of Trustees Meeting
12:00 – 1:00pm	SWE Meetings	BOT/BOD Luncheon

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

TIME	TRACK	EVENT NAME
8:00 – 10:00am	Career-Enhancement Series	Engineering and Business Ethics
8:00am – 12:00pm	Career-Enhancement Series	Project Management 101 - Project Management Basics
8:00am – 12:00pm	Career-Enhancement Series	Supply Chain Excellence
1:00 – 5:00pm	Career-Enhancement Series	Leadership Competencies to Build an Engaged Work Force
1:00 – 5:00pm	Career-Enhancement Series	Project Management Best Practices: Helping You Move Ahead
1:00 – 5:00pm	Career-Enhancement Series	Using the Six Sigma Methodology
6:00 – 8:00pm	Conference Highlights	Past President's Reception (Invitation only)
8:00 – 10:00pm	Conference Highlights	Ice Cream Social
7:00am – 5:00pm	Registration & Services	Volunteer Central
7:00am – 6:00pm	Registration & Services	Registration
8:00am – 5:00pm	Registration & Services	Career Resources Center
8:00am – 5:00pm	Registration & Services	Speaker Ready Room
9:15am – 2:30pm	Sightseeing Tour	City of Fountains, Jazz Museum, and Negro League Baseball Museum (CANCELLED)
9:15am – 2:30pm	Sightseeing Tour	Masterpiece Day: Kemper Gallery and Nelson-Atkins Art Gallery
4:15 – 7:30pm	Sightseeing Tour	Boulevard Brewing Company (CANCELLED)
6:45pm – 12:00am	Sightseeing Tour	A Taste of Kansas City
8:00am – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Board of Trustees Meeting
8:15 –- 10:00am	SWE Meetings	Leadership Coaching Committee Meeting
8:15 –- 10:00am	SWE Meetings	Membership Committee Meeting
8:15 –- 10:00am	SWE Meetings	Multicultural Committee Meeting
8:15 –- 10:00am	SWE Meetings	Procedures Committee Meeting
8:15am – 12:00pm	SWE Meetings	Collegiate Interests Committee Meeting
8:15am – 12:00pm	SWE Meetings	Strategic Communications Committee Meeting
8:15am – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Editorial Board Meeting
10:15am – 12:00pm	SWE Meetings	Archives Committee Meeting
10:15am – 12:00pm	SWE Meetings	Girl Scouts Committee Meeting
10:15am – 12:00pm	SWE Meetings	Government Relations and Public Policy Meeting
10:15am – 12:00pm	SWE Meetings	Professional Development Committee Meeting
10:15am – 12:00pm	SWE Meetings	Scholarship Committee Meeting
10:15am – 12:00pm	SWE Meetings	Work/Life Balance Committee
12:00 – 1:00pm	SWE Meetings	Committee Leaders and Members Luncheon
1:15 – 3:00pm	SWE Meetings	Audit Committee Meeting
1:15 – 3:00pm	SWE Meetings	Awards and Recognition Committee Meeting
1:15 – 3:00pm	SWE Meetings	Finance Committee Meeting
1:15 – 3:00pm	SWE Meetings	Program Development Grants Committee Meeting
1:15 – 3:00pm	SWE Meetings	International Task Force Meeting
1:15 – 3:00pm	SWE Meetings	Strategic Planning Committee Meeting
1:15 – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Conference Program Board Meeting
1:15 – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Region Governors Meeting (invitation only)
3:15 – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Bylaws Committee Meeting
3:15 – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Career Guidance Committee Meeting
3:15 – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Nominating Committee Meeting
3:15 – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Women in Government SIG
5:00 – 7:00pm	SWE Meetings	COR Mega Issues Meeting
7:30 – 11:00am	Technical Tour	General Motors Fairfax Plant
9:00am – 12:00pm	Technical Tour	Harley Davidson Tour
9:15am – 12:30pm	Technical Tour	Scout Highway System MDOT
12:45 – 4:00pm	Technical Tour	Ford Motor Company Claycomo Plant
1:00 – 4:30pm	Technical Tour	Hallmark Cards
1:15 – 3:30pm	Technical Tour	Stowers Institute
2:00 – 5:45pm	Technical Tour	Sprint Nextel Experience
5:00 – 6:00pm	Technology	Birds of a Feather Reception

Thursday, October 12, 2006

TIME	TRACK	EVENT NAME
1:15 – 2:15pm	Academic	NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
3:45 – 4:45pm	Academic	Graduate School Panel
5:00 – 6:00pm	Academic	Options for Graduate Students in Industry
10:15 – 11:15am	Career Transition	Career Development: Take Control of Your Career
10:15 – 11:45am	Career Transition	Examples of Winning Interviews
10:15 – 11:45am	Career Transition	How to Work a Career Fair
10:15 – 11:45am	Career Transition	Using your Engineering Degree In a "Patent"-ly Interesting Career
10:15 – 11:45am	Career Transition	What I Wish my Mother Told Me Before I Started Work
1:15 – 2:15pm	Career Transition	Interviewing Skills
1:15 – 2:15pm	Career Transition	Operations Management: Making The Most of a Great Opportunity
2:30 – 3:30pm	Career Transition	Backpack to Briefcase
2:30 – 3:30pm	Career Transition	Finding the Right Fit
2:30 – 3:30pm	Career Transition	Résumé Writing
2:30 – 3:30 pm	Career Transition	Successfully Starting Your Career
3:45 – 4:45pm	Career Transition	Perspectives of Upward Mobility - Women in Aerospace
3:45 – 4:45pm	Career Transition	From Good to Great! How to Land Your Dream Job
3:45 – 4:45pm	Career Transition	Work 101: Things They Never Taught You in Engineering School, But you Need to Know
5:00 – 6:00pm	Career Transition	Extreme Engineering Makeover
5:00 – 6:00pm	Career Transition	Interviewing the Company
5:00 – 6:00pm	Career Transition	Interviewing Savvy: How to Get the Job
8:00am – 12:00pm	Collegiate Competitions	Team Tech Practice
6:00 – 8:00pm	Collegiate Competitions	Collegiate Poster Competition
7:00 – 8:00am	Conference Highlights	Halo Reception (invitation only)
8:00 – 10:00am	Conference Highlights	Keynote by Mary Armstrong President, Shared Services, The Boeing Company
11:45 am – 1:15pm	Conference Highlights	Collegiate Welcome Luncheon
5:00 – 6:00pm	Conference Highlights	President's Reception (invitation only)
6:00 – 8:00pm	Conference Highlights	Career Fair and Exhibits Opening and Reception
8:00 – 10:00pm	Conference Highlights	Company Hospitality Suites
8:00 – 10:00pm	Conference Highlights	Life Members Hospitality Suite
10:15 – 11:45am	Diversity	Female Students & Negotiation: The Cost of Not Asking People
10:15 – 11:45am	Diversity	Empowering Women II An Interactive Workshop for Women and Men
10:15 – 11:45am	Diversity	Tools of Excellence for Effective Engineers and Other Professions
10:15 – 11:45am	Diversity	Women Leaders Leading Change
1:15 – 2:15 pm	Diversity	Flexibility Is an Important Tool in Recruiting
2:30 – 3:30pm	Diversity	Working with a Global Team
3:45 – 4:45pm	Diversity	Diversifying Engineering Fields
3:45 – 6:00pm	Diversity	Hispanic Women Engineers Panel and Welcome
5:00 – 6:00pm	Diversity	What’s Your I.Q.? (Inclusion Quotient)
10:15 – 11:45am	Leadership Coaching-	How to Attract & Retain Women Engineers in Non Traditional Roles
2:30 – 3:30pm	Leadership Coaching	Program Development Grants Workshop
3:45 – 4:45pm	Leadership Coaching- Collegiate	Effective Personal Communications
5:00 – 6:00pm	Leadership Coaching- Collegiate	Event Planning and Advertising
5:00 – 6:00pm	Leadership Coaching	Professional and Student Treasurers Workshop
10:15 – 11:45am	Professional Development	Consulting and Engineering: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
10:15 – 11:45am	Professional Development	Globalizing Yourself - Gaining a Competitive Advantage in a Globalizing World
10:15 – 11:45am	Professional Development	Role of Engineers in the Entrepreneurial Economy
1:15 – 2:15 pm	Professional Development	Globalization and Outsourcing
1:15 – 2:15 pm	Professional Development	The Written Word in Today's Technology
2:30 – 3:30pm	Professional Development	Pervasive Leadership
2:30 – 3:30pm	Professional Development	Preparing for an International Work/Study Abroad Experience
2:30 – 3:30pm	Professional Development	The Art of Speaking: What Are You REALLY Saying?
2:30 – 4:45pm	Professional Development	The Cost of Assimilation
3:45 – 4:45pm	Professional Development	Mastering Leadership Styles to Help Each Employee Reach their Full Potential
3:45 – 4:45pm	Professional Development	The Angel on your Shoulder
3:45 – 4:45pm	Professional Development	WBE Certification for Women Entrepreneurs
3:45 – 6:00pm	Professional Development	Leaders of Today Inspiring Leaders of Tomorrow
5:00 –- 6:00pm	Professional Development	Business Leadership Model
5:00 – 6:00pm	Professional Development	Coaching for Success
5:00 – 6:00pm	Professional Development	The Challenges and Opportunities of Working in a Global Environment
6:00 – 7:00am	Registration & Services	Aerobics
7:00am – 5:00pm	Registration & Services	Volunteer Central
7:00 am – 7:00pm	Registration & Services	Registration
8:00am – 5:00pm	Registration & Services	Career Resources Center
8:00am – 5:00pm	Registration & Services	Speaker Ready Room
10:00am – 12:00pm	SWE Meetings	COR Mega Issues
10:00am – 12:00pm	SWE Meetings	Corporate Members Meeting
1:00 – 3:00pm	SWE Meetings	Region D Collegiate and Joint Meeting
1:00 – 3:30pm	SWE Meetings	Region A Collegiate and Joint Meeting
1:00 – 3:30pm	SWE Meetings	Region B Collegiate and Joint Meeting
1:00 – 3:30pm	SWE Meetings	Region C Collegiate and Joint Meeting
1:00 – 3:30pm	SWE Meetings	Region E Collegiate and Joint Meeting
1:00 – 3:30pm	SWE Meetings	Region F Collegiate and Joint Meeting
1:00 – 3:30pm	SWE Meetings	Region G Collegiate and Joint Meeting
1:00 – 3:30pm	SWE Meetings	Region H Collegiate and Joint Meeting
1:00 – 3:30pm	SWE Meetings	Region I Collegiate and Joint Meeting
1:00 – 3:30pm	SWE Meetings	Region J Collegiate and Joint Meeting
2:00 – 4:00pm	SWE Meetings	Corporate Partnership Council Meeting
3:00 – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Region D Joint and Professional Meeting
3:30 – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Region A Joint and Professional Meeting
3:30 – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Region B Joint and Professional Meeting
3:30 – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Region C Joint and Professional Meeting
3:30 – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Region E Joint and Professional Meeting
3:30 – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Region F Joint and Professional Meeting
3:30 – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Region G Joint and Professional Meeting
3:30 – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Region H Joint and Professional Meeting
3:30 – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Region I Joint and Professional Meeting
3:30 – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	Region J Joint and Professional Meeting
8:00 – 11:45am	Technical Tour	Procter & Gamble Kansas City Plant
10:15 – 11:45am	Technology	Zen and the Art of Virtualization
1:15 – 2:15 pm	Technology	Solving the Infrastructure Crisis
1:15 – 2:15pm	Technology	The Evolution of Process Modeling: Integration of Chemical Engineering
1:15 – 2:15pm	Technology	The Fab Environment of the Semiconductor Industry
1:15 – 2:15pm	Technology	What is the Role of Systems Engineering?
1:15 – 3:30pm	Technology	For the Love of Cars
2:30 – 3:30pm	Technology	Advanced Flash Memory Technology
2:30 – 3:30pm	Technology	Engineers and Documentation
2:30 – 3:30pm	Technology	Overcoming Presentation Anxiety: How to Deliver Your Technical Information with Confidence
2:30 – 3:30pm	Technology	Public Communication on Technical Topics
3:45 – 4:45pm	Technology	Ecomagination
3:45 – 4:45pm	Technology	Brainstorming Techniques
3:45 – 4:45pm	Technology	Evolving Technology: Engineering is Changing – How Do We Adapt?
3:45 – 4:45pm	Technology	Software Development in a Controlled Environment
5:00 – 6:00pm	Technology	Agree to Agree Regarding Measurements
5:00 – 6:00pm	Technology	Optimizing Design Tradeoffs
5:00 – 6:00pm	Technology	PCI Technology: Technological Innovations & Advancements

Friday, October 13, 2006

TIME	TRACK	EVENT NAME
10:00 – 11:00am	Academic	Outreach Recommendations for Academic Institutions
11:00am – 12:00pm	Academic	To Post Doc or Not to Post Doc: That is the Question!
1:15 – 2:15pm	Academic	Secrets of Success in Academia
2:30 – 3:30pm	Academic	Demystifying Academia
3:45 – 4:45pm	Academic	Obtaining Tenure in Academia
5:00 – 6:00pm	Academic	Tips for Grant Writing
1:15 – 2:15pm	Career Transition	Careers in Technical Marketing
1:15 – 2:15pm	Career Transition	How Can We All Just Get Along?
2:30 – 3:30pm	Career Transition	Are You Looking to Understand the Offer Process?
2:30 – 3:30pm	Career Transition	Quantum Leap: Do You Have What is Takes to Be a Manager?
2:30 – 3:30pm	Career Transition	Value of an MBA
3:45 – 4:45 p.m.	Career Transition	Getting to the Civilian Side of Federal Government
3:45 – 4:45pm	Career Transition	Small Fish in a Big Pond
3:45 – 4:45 pm	Career Transition	Transitioning from College to Work at a Fortune 500 Company
3:45 – 4:45pm	Career Transition	Why Should I Participate in College Internships?
5:00 – 6:00pm	Career Transition	You’ve Landed…Now How Do You Keep on Blazing?
8:00am – 12:00pm	Collegiate Competitions	Team Tech Competition
10:00am – 4:00pm	Collegiate Competitions	Collegiate Poster Competition
8:00 –- 10:00am	Conference Highlights	Plenary Session: Women Blazing Technology Trails
10:00am – 4:00pm	Conference Highlights	Career Fair and Exhibits with Lunch
3:00 – 4:00pm	Conference Highlights	Fellows Meeting & Tea (invitation only)
4:00 – 5:30pm	Conference Highlights	Exhibitors Reception (invitation only)
6:00 – 7:00pm	Conference Highlights	Achievement Awards Reception
7:00 – 10:00pm	Conference Highlights	Achievement Awards Banquet
1:15 – 2:15pm	Diversity	Generation Gaps in the Workplace
1:15 – 2:15pm	Diversity	Women’s Affinity Groups
1:15 – 2:15pm	Diversity	Application of Title IX to STEM Fields
2:30 – 3:30pm	Diversity	Women of Color in Engineering: Creating Effective Partnerships
2:30 – 3:30pm	Diversity	He Says, She Says
3:45 – 4:45pm	Diversity	Technical Women In Industry, Trends and Promising Practices
3:45 – 4:45pm	Diversity	The Value of a Diverse Workplace
3:45 – 6:00pm	Diversity	Homeward Bound, Part II, Welcoming the Whole You
3:45 – 4:45pm	Leadership Coaching- Collegiate	Finding Your Inner Leader
3:45 – 4:45pm	Leadership Coaching- Collegiate	Utilizing Collegiate Section Bylaws
5:00 – 6:00pm	Leadership Coaching- Collegiate	Benefits and Knowledge of SWE
5:00 – 6:00pm	Leadership Coaching- Collegiate	Collegiate Upgrade Workshop
5:00 – 6:00pm	Leadership Coaching- Collegiate	Nuts and Bolts of SWE
5:00 – 6:00pm	Leadership Coaching- Collegiate	Managing Effective Meetings
5:00 – 6:00pm	Leadership Coaching- Collegiate	Transfer Your SWE Experience Into a Company Leadership Role
1:15 – 2:15pm	Professional Development	Boost Up Your Engineering Career
1:15 – 2:15pm	Professional Development	Confidence with CLASS
1:15 – 2:15pm	Professional Development	Consulting vs. Manufacturing: Differences and Alliances (CANCELLED)
1:15 – 2:15pm	Professional Development	Taming of the Shrew: Assertive and Aggressive
1:15 – 2:15pm	Professional Development	Dress for Success (CANCELLED)
1:15 – 3:30pm	Professional Development	Financial Planning 101
2:30 – 3:30pm	Professional Development	Best Practices for Professional Growth: Engineering Jobs at Microsoft
2:30 – 3:30pm	Professional Development	Leadership Traits Past and Present
2:30 – 3:30pm	Professional Development	Productive Communication in the Face of Conflict
2:30 – 3:30pm	Professional Development	Why Can't Women Stop at 5?
2:30 – 4:45pm	Professional Development	Speed Mentoring
3:45 – 4:45pm	Professional Development	Align and Motivate Your Team
3:45 – 4:45 pm	Professional Development	Fundamentals of Engineering Licensure
5:00 – 6:00pm	Professional Development	Finances and You
6:00 – 7:00am	Registration & Services	Aerobics
7:00am – 5:00pm	Registration & Services	Volunteer Central
7:00am – 6:00pm	Registration & Services	Registration
8:00am – 5:00pm	Registration & Services	Speaker Ready Room
8:00am – 5:00pm	Registration & Services	Career Resources Center
9:00am – 4:00pm	SWE Meetings	Engineering Your Future
9:00 – 10:00am	SWE Meetings	Pre-COR Finance Meeting
10:00am – 12:00pm	SWE Meetings	Collegiate Strategic Planning
10:00am – 2:45pm	SWE Meetings	MAL Meeting
10:00 – 11:00am	SWE Meetings	COR Meetings FIG
11:00am – 12:00pm	SWE Meetings	COR Environmental Scanning FIG
11:00am – 12:00pm	SWE Meetings	Women in Academia SIG
1:15 – 2:15pm	SWE Meetings	COR Member Grade FIG
2:30 – 3:30pm	SWE Meetings	COR Procedures FIG
3:45 – 4:45pm	SWE Meetings	COR Career Mapping FIG
4:15 – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	New Professional Section Formation
5:00 – 6:00pm	SWE Meetings	Collegiate Representatives
5:00 – 6:00pm	SWE Meetings	COR Mega Issues FIG
5:00 – 6:00pm	SWE Meetings	SWE Counselors and Faculty Advisors Meeting
1:15 – 2:15 pm	Technology	Developing an Industry Standard Benchmark: Measuring Database Server
1:15 – 2:15pm	Technology/Career Transition	How to Survive a Technical Interview
1:15 – 2:15 pm	Technology	Science and Technology in the National Interest
1:15 – 2:15 pm	Technology	Think Outside the Cube: Positively Impacting Women’s Health
2:30 – 3:30pm	Technology	Development of Product Accelerated Life Testing as a Key Aspect of New Product Development
2:30 – 3:30pm	Technology	Enabling the Wireless Industry
2:30 – 3:30pm	Technology	Patenting a Wet Suit
2:30 – 3:30pm	Technology	Power Industry What's Next in Electric Power?
3:00–- 6:00pm	Technology – Technical Papers	A Mechanism Design Approach for Optimal Power Allocation in Wireless Networks A MEMS-Based Cochlear Prosthesis Embedded with a Position-Sensing System Chronically Compatible Silicon Microtechnology for Neuroscience and Neural Prosthetics Fuzzy Optimal Allocation of Spaces to Zone-decks in General Arrangement Properties of the Surface-modified Layer of Plasma-oxidized Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Simultaneous Cinematographic PIV and PLIF Measurements at Kilohertz Frame Rate for Turbulent Cavity Flows Symbolic Reliability Analysis Synthesis of CdSe Nanocrystals Using High Temperature Water The Difficulties in Collaborative Navigation Two-tracer Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) Experiment in an Optical Engine
3:45 – 4:45pm	Technology	How to Best Develop Product Requirements
3:45 – 4:45pm	Technology	Improving the Performance of Chromatography Operations
3:45 – 4:45pm	Technology	Identify the Dots…Use the Dots
3:45 – 4:45pm	Technology	Women Innovators and Inventors: Their Past, Our Present, Your Future

Saturday, October 14, 2006

TIME	TRACK	EVENT NAME
10:15 – 11:30am	Academic	Academic Leadership Panel
2:15 – 4:45pm	Academic	Engineering Faculty Recruitment Fair and Reception
12:30 – 2:00pm	Career Guidance	Career Guidance Fair
10:15 – 11:30am	Career Transition	So You've Landed the Offer - Now What?
1:15 – 2:15pm	Career Transition	Avoiding the Top Ten Mistakes Made by Recent College Grads and Interns
1:15 – 2:15pm	Career Transition	It Takes Two to Tango…and Transition!
8:00am – 12:00pm	Career-Enhancement Series	Engineering Statistics
8:00am – 12:00pm	Career-Enhancement Series	Leaning into Aviation
8:00am – 12:00pm	Career-Enhancement Series	PowerTalk: How to be an Effective Communicator
1:00 – 5:00pm	Career-Enhancement Series	Poised for Leadership: Leveraging the Power of Presence Politics and Persuasion
1:00 – 5:00pm	Career-Enhancement Series	Finance for the Non-Financial Manager
1:00 – 5:00pm	Career-Enhancement Series	Building an Effective Work Team
1:15 – 4:45pm	Collegiate Competitions	SME Bowl
8:00 – 10:00am	Conference Highlights	Plenary Session: Women’s Executive Panel
11:45am – 1:15pm	Conference Highlights	Collegiate Member Networking Luncheon
6:30 – 10:00pm	Conference Highlights	Celebrate SWE!
10:15 – 11:30am	Diversity	Leveraging Your "Diversity" to Help Your Employer Innovate and Produce Results
10:15 – 11:30am	Diversity	Together We are Stronger: Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
1:15 – 2:15 pm	Diversity	The Project Management Approach to Leading Change in Diversity
2:30 – 3:30pm	Diversity	Overcoming Cultural Differences
3:45 – 4:45pm	Diversity	SWE Regional Programming Excellence Award
3:45 – 4:45pm	Diversity	Use the Platinum Rule…Not the Golden Rule in Communication
10:15 – 11:30am	Leadership Coaching – Collegiate	How to Write an Outstanding Collegiate Section Report
10:15 – 11:30am	Leadership Coaching	Managing A Volunteer Workforce
1:15 – 2:15 pm	Leadership Coaching- Collegiate	Building Membership
1:15 – 2:15 pm	Leadership Coaching	Engineering with Elementary Children
1:15 – 2:15 pm	Leadership Coaching	Professionalism in Your SWE Section
2:30 – 3:30pm	Leadership Coaching- Collegiate	Learning Leadership Styles
2:30 – 3:30pm	Leadership Coaching	SWE Connections: Shaping Careers Through Networking
2:30 – 3:30pm	Leadership Coaching	SWE Section Leadership: Dealing with Leadership Burnout
3:45 – 4:45pm	Leadership Coaching- Collegiate	Strategic & Tactical Planning
3:45 – 4:45pm	Leadership Coaching	Challenges of Geographically Large SWE Sections Your SWE Section
3:45 – 4:45pm	Leadership Coaching	Utilizing the Professional Section Bylaws Template
10:15 – 11:30am	Professional Development	An Engineering Battle of the Sexes-Social Styles
10:15 – 11:30am	Professional Development	Financing Your Own Firm
10:15 – 11:30am	Professional Development	Work/Life Balance
1:15 – 2:15 pm	Professional Development	Effective Presentations
1:15 – 2:15 pm	Professional Development	Selling Your Ideas to Upper Management
2:30 – 3:30pm	Professional Development	Effective Recognition
2:30 – 3:30pm	Professional Development	Engineering Organization Leadership
2:30 – 3:30pm	Professional Development	Making Memorable Presentations: Audience Centered Speaking
6:00 – 7:00am	Registration & Services	Aerobics
7:00am – 5:00pm	Registration & Services	Volunteer Central
7:30am – 12:00pm	Registration & Services	Registration
8:00am – 5:00pm	Registration & Services	Speaker Ready Room
8:00am – 5:00pm	Registration & Services	Career Resources Room
8:45am – 12:30pm	Sightseeing Tour	National Agricultural/Hall of Fame (CANCELLED)
9:15am – 2:30pm	Sightseeing Tour	Independence Tour: Truman Home and Presidential Library and Museum
9:15am – 2:30pm	Sightseeing Tour	City of Fountains, Jazz Museum, and Negro League Baseball Museum
9:15am – 2:30pm	Sightseeing Tour	Masterpiece Day: Kemper Gallery and Nelson-Atkins Art Gallery (CANCELLED)
9:15am – 3:30pm	Sightseeing Tour	Fort Leavenworth (CANCELLED)
10:15am – 3:30pm	Sightseeing Tour	Roasterie Coffee Plant and Union Station
1:00 – 4:30pm	Sightseeing Tour	Steamboat Arabia Museum
1:15 – 3:45pm	Sightseeing Tour	Kansas Speedway
1:45 – 4:15pm	Sightseeing Tour	Kansas City Ballet
8:30 – 10:00am	SWE Meetings	Community Colleges Task Force Meeting
10:00 – 11:00am	SWE Meetings	SWE Membership Meeting
11:00am – 12:00pm	SWE Meetings	COR BHAG Session
1:00 – 5:00pm	SWE Meetings	COR Meeting
3:45 – 4:45pm	SWE Meetings	Graduate SIG Task Force Meeting
9:15am – 12:00pm	Technical Tour	Linda Hall Library
1:45 – 4:30pm	Technical Tour	Women in Design
10:15 – 11:30am	Technology	Advances in Technology: What Will Life Be Like in the Future?
10:15 – 11:30am	Technology	Think Outside the Cube: Paths to Technical Sales and Marketing Careers
1:15 – 2:15pm	Technology	Impact of Various Environmental Regulations Upon Vehicle Manufacturers
1:15 – 2:15pm	Technology	The NASA Lunar/Mars Exploration Program
2:30 – 3:30pm	Technology	Engineering in China
2:30 – 3:30pm	Technology	Systems Engineering Metrics Analysis
3:45 – 4:45pm	Technology	Achieving Privacy and Trust in Cyberspace
3:45 – 4:45pm	Technology	Team Software Process