PACE TEST/Pilot/Trial Session Professional Development Workshop: Soft Skills

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Discover & Enhance your soft skills for personal career growth & development 

NOTE: This is a pilot Workshop! 

 Overview

The Soft Skills workshop is intended to help participants develop and improve interpersonal, group, team and leadership skills.  The workshop is targeted at those, who are in anticipating to be in roles at engineering/technical organizations, business, industry, academia or volunteer organizations.  However, anyone interested in further developing these skills in dealing with people and working within any type of organization will benefit from the workshop.  The format for the workshop includes the presentation of the core material and interactive participation; using exercises, case studies and open discussion.

Workshop Content

Introduction

  • Definition of Soft Skills
  • Interpersonal Effectiveness

Presentation Skills
Running Effective Meetings
Cultural Awareness, Global Teams, etc

 


  Date and Time

  Location

  Hosts

  Registration


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  • EC 254 Engineering Center
  • Oakland University
  • Rochester, Michigan
  • United States 48309-4479
  • Building: Engineering Center
  • Room Number: EC 254
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  • Contact Event Host

  • sharan.kalwani@ieee.org, Phone: +1 (248) 980-UNIX. 

  • Starts 29 July 2025 11:14 PM UTC
  • Ends 01 August 2025 08:00 PM UTC
  • No Admission Charge

  Speakers

Sharan of IEEE Southeastern Michigan

Topic:

Soft Skills Development TEST WORKSHOP

Soft  Skills Trial/Pilot Session!!!

Biography:

A seasoned scientific, technical and computing professional, Sharan has spent over 25+ years implementing many new and pioneering technologies from operating systems (UNIX/BSD/UNICOS/IRIX/Linux/Solaris/), high performance computing (Cray, SGI, various clusters), engineering applications (CAE/CFD simulation software), benchmarking, optimization, networking (TCP/IP, Infiniband), operations (ITIL, ITSM), scientific domain (BioInformatics), and project management. An inspiring speaker and author, Sharan looks to raise the professional approach of every individual he interacts with. He has worked in many diverse areas and is a sought after speaker at many conferences and seminars, such as Supercomputing, HPC Advisory Council, SIAM, IB Trade Association, Association of Information Technology Professionals, etc.

He enjoys teaching, contributing to STEM activities and publishing. He is a senior member of IEEE, ACM, Emeritus member of Michigan!/usr/group (mug.org), and leads the SEMCO.ORG. He has published a book on the topic: "UNIX and TCP/IP network security" " ISBN: 1581430213; and is now working on his second text, about a new computer programming language. He has been the Chair of the IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section since 2022 and has held various officer roles in different chapters of the Southeastern Michigan IEEE. He also serves as one of the writers/editors of the Sections monthly newsletter - Wavelengths. He has also served as Vice-Chair of IEEE Sustech 2022, IEEE SusTech 2021 Global Conferences. He is the recipient of:

* 2018 IEEE MGA Achievement award,
* 2021 IEEE Region 4 Jack Sherman award
* 2022 Robert Neff Section award
* 2023 IEEE Region 4 Outstanding Service Award
* 2024 Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD) Anne O. Fletcher Award

for his contributions towards IEEE activities.

Sharan is the Vice Chair of the Membership Development Committee (MDCom)

Email:

Address:Rochester, Michigan, United States




Agenda

9:00 AM - Welcome and Introductions,
9:15 AM - Skills Talk: Part 1,
10:15 AM - Skills Talk: Part 2, 
11:30 AM - Skills Talk: Part 3 ,
11:45 AM - Wrap Up and feedback
12 noon - Formal Conclusion. 

No printed copy of the notes will be provided since this is test / dry run. 

 


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