Hi CHE 530 students,

If the workshop below interests you, please contact Prof Vaccaro in ELE directly.

Prof. Greenfield

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:43:33 -0500
From: Richard J. Vaccaro
To: faculty.coe@egr.uri.edu
Subject: Workshop for URI Engineering students

Please let your students know about the workshop described below:

To all URI Engineering Students:

The URI chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society, is pleased to present an Engineering Futures Workshop on the topic of "People Skills" on Saturday, February 28, from 9 am to noon in Kelley Hall, room K102. Coffee, tea, bagels, and pastries will be provided at 9 am. This workshop is free of charge for all URI engineering students.

If you plan to attend this workshop, please send an e-mail RSVP to vaccaro@ele.uri.edu.

The Tau Beta Pi Engineering Futures Program was established to provide interpersonal skills for engineering students. This is accomplished through the presentation of sessions on campus by alumnus Tau Bates who are trained in the materials. The Engineering Futures Program received national recognition as winner of the 2007 Excellence in Engineering Education Collaboration Award.

The speaker will be Dr. Stephen Kramer, Engineering Manager at Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies Company, East Hartford, CT.

Here is a description of the sessions:

People Skills Module 1: Describing Problems

Learn how to describe problems in a direct, specific, and non-punishing manner and start problem solving that gets the problem solved and maintains relationships with others.

People Skills Module 2: Motivation Problems

Learn how to motivate people through the use of consequences, both natural (consequences which happen without effort on their part) and imposed (where someone needs to take an action to make the consequence happen). Also learn how to set up and follow plans once a solution is agreed upon to help ensure that the problem is permanently solved.

____________________________________________________________________ Richard J. Vaccaro vaccaro@ele.uri.edu Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering 401-874-5816 (voice) University of Rhode Island 401-782-6422 (fax) 4 East Alumni Ave. Kingston, RI 02881 USA http://www.ele.uri.edu _____________________________________________________________________

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