BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T175221Z UID:F2696079-7C14-4713-8521-28B449936A43 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T131500 DESCRIPTION:Hard Work Alone Won’t Get You Noticed - Creating Value Will! Most engineering graduates have strong technical skills—but many struggl e to advance. Why? Because effort alone isn’t enough. Organizations rewa rd engineers who create visible\, measurable value. In 75 minutes\, learn how to turn your skills into impact that gets noticed\, trusted\, and rewa rded. Discover practical career strategies that jump start your career fro m day one.\n\nThe workshops are open to everyone (in-person only for the T ufts community.)\n\nA light lunch will be provided when the workshop begin s.\n\nDr. Ron Lasser brings over thirty years of industrial experience and practical engineering knowledge to the classroom\, student projects\, res earch\, and corporate ecosystems. His approach is to inspire and apply cri tical thinking to real-life problems\, then look toward innovation and tec hnology to provide a solution.\n\nHis creativity\, high energy level and p assion have yielded an impressive track record. Ron has worked with U.S. a nd international companies on product realization\, innovation and technol ogy\, product definition\, product portfolio management\, and trouble-shoo ting. Ron has improved time-to-profit for small entrepreneurial companies to billion dollar international corporations to achieve bottom line result s.\n\nRon started his career in telecommunications and computers developin g Unix and MS DOS-based systems and networks for AT&T Bell Laboratories. H e worked at DuPont in their Electronic Prepress business developing scanne rs\, document processing\, and color imaging products. Ron was the directo r of engineering at General Scanning responsible for medical imaging and p rinting technologies and helped take the company public.\n\nRon is a Profe ssor of the Practice at Tufts University in the Electrical and Computer En gineering Department. He has taught courses in Engineering Entrepreneurshi p\, Linear Systems Theory\, Senior Design Project\, Junior Design\, Electr ical Systems\, and Societal Aspects of Design. Ron is a technology and man agement advisor for international companies in the area of strategic techn ology and product portfolio. He received the Seymour Simches Award for Dis tinguished Teaching and Advising in 2023 and the SOE Faculty Graduate Teac hing and Mentoring Award\, 2022. He has received the Henry and Madeline Fi scher Award for Teaching Excellence seven times in 2017 through 2022\, and 2009. Members of each graduating class since 2003 have presented him with the Student Impact Award for being an individual who most influence their learning and intellectual development. He has developed two courses in de sign as part of the Tufts Innovates! grant program. He is a mentor at EFor All in Lowell\, accelerating economic and social impact through entreprene urship in mid-sized cities.\n\nRon has a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon Univer sity and holds Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in mechan ical engineering\, also from Carnegie-Mellon University. He has completed the executive education Strategic Marketing Management program at the Harv ard Business School.\n\nHis research interests include digital image proce ssing and animation\, innovation\, product portfolio design and dynamics\, and structuring organizational ecosystems for success.\n\nRegistration is required\nSend your response to the event organizer by entering your info rmation\, choosing your responses\, and pressing the arrow button to compl ete registration.\n\nCo-sponsored by: Tufts University\n\nSpeaker(s): Pro fessor Ron Lasser\, Ph.D.\, \n\nRoom: Burden Lounge\, Bldg: Anderson Hall\ , Tuft University \, 200 College Ave\, Medford\, Massachusetts\, United St ates\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/577887 LOCATION:Room: Burden Lounge\, Bldg: Anderson Hall\, Tuft University \, 200 College Ave\, Medford\, Massachusetts\, United States\, Virtual: https:// events.vtools.ieee.org/m/577887 ORGANIZER:k.safina@ieee.org SEQUENCE:16 SUMMARY:Jump Start Your ENGINEERING Career with Professor Ron Lasser\, Ph. D. URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/577887 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><div>\n<p><strong>Hard Work Alone Won&rsquo\; t Get You Noticed - Creating Value Will! </strong>Most engineering graduat es have strong technical skills&mdash\;but many struggle to advance. Why? Because effort alone isn&rsquo\;t enough. Organizations reward engineers w ho create visible\, measurable value. In 75 minutes\, learn how to turn yo ur skills into impact that gets noticed\, trusted\, and rewarded. Discover practical career strategies that jump start your career from day one.</p> \n</div>\n<div>&nbsp\;</div>\n<div>The workshops are open to everyone (in- person only for the Tufts community.)</div>\n<div>&nbsp\;</div>\n<div>\n<d iv id="QID7" class="QuestionOuter BorderColor DB QID7" data-runtime-remov e-class-hidden="runtime.Displayed">\n<div class="Inner BorderColor TB">\n< div class="InnerInner BorderColor">\n<div class="QuestionText BorderColor" >\n<p>A light lunch will be provided when the workshop begins.</p>\n</div> \n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n<div id="QID5Separator" class="Separator" data-r untime-show="runtime.SeparatorDisplayed"></div>\n<div id="QID5" class="Que stionOuter BorderColor DB QID5" data-runtime-remove-class-hidden="runtime .Displayed">\n<div class="Inner BorderColor TB">\n<div class="InnerInner B orderColor">\n<div class="QuestionText BorderColor">\n<p><img src="https:/ /tufts.qualtrics.com/CP/Graphic.php?IM=IM_9EqXxITTodZ5Mxg" data-image-stat e="ready"><strong>Dr. Ron Lasser </strong>brings over thirty years of indu strial experience and practical engineering knowledge to the classroom\, s tudent projects\, research\, and corporate ecosystems. His approach is to inspire and apply critical thinking to real-life problems\, then look towa rd innovation and technology to provide a solution.<br><br>His creativity\ , high energy level and passion have yielded an impressive track record. R on has worked with U.S. and international companies on product realization \, innovation and technology\, product definition\, product portfolio mana gement\, and trouble-shooting.&nbsp\; Ron has improved time-to-profit for small entrepreneurial companies to billion dollar international corporatio ns to achieve bottom line results.<br><br>Ron started his career in teleco mmunications and computers developing Unix and MS DOS-based systems and ne tworks for AT&amp\;T Bell Laboratories. He worked at DuPont in their Elect ronic Prepress business developing scanners\, document processing\, and co lor imaging products. Ron was the director of engineering at General Scann ing responsible for medical imaging and printing technologies and helped t ake the company public.<br><br>Ron is a Professor of the Practice at Tufts University in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He has taught courses in Engineering Entrepreneurship\, Linear Systems Theory\, S enior Design Project\, Junior Design\, Electrical Systems\, and Societal A spects of Design. Ron is a technology and management advisor for internati onal companies in the area of strategic technology and product portfolio. He received the Seymour Simches Award for Distinguished Teaching and Advis ing in 2023 and the SOE Faculty Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Award\, 20 22. He has received the Henry and Madeline Fischer Award for Teaching Exce llence seven times in 2017 through 2022\, and 2009. Members of each gradua ting class since 2003 have presented him with the Student Impact Award for being an individual who most influence their learning and intellectual de velopment. He has developed two courses in design as part of the Tufts Inn ovates! grant program. He is a mentor at EForAll in Lowell\, accelerating economic and social impact through entrepreneurship in mid-sized&nbsp\;cit ies.<br><br>Ron has a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University and holds Mast er of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in mechanical engineering\, also from Carnegie-Mellon University. He has completed the executive educa tion Strategic Marketing Management program at the Harvard Business School .<br><br>His research interests include digital image processing and anima tion\, innovation\, product portfolio design and dynamics\, and structurin g organizational ecosystems for success.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</di v>\n<div id="QID13Separator" class="Separator" data-runtime-show="runtime. 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