{"50211":{"#nid":"50211","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Top industry executives interact with students","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEach semester, Dr. \u003Cstrong\u003EJudith Norback\u003C\/strong\u003E, ISyE\u0027s director of Workplace and Academic Communication, pulls together a group of top industry executives from a variety of fields to interact directly with ISyE students in Senior Design. This year\u0027s panel included \u003Cstrong\u003EChip Robert\u003C\/strong\u003E, BSIE 1960, recently retired chairman and treasurer of Robert Ltd.; \u003Cstrong\u003EDavid McKenney\u003C\/strong\u003E, BSIE 1964, chairman and CEO of McKenney\u0027s Inc.; \u003Cstrong\u003EJohn McKenney\u003C\/strong\u003E, BSIE 1990, president of McKenney\u0027s Inc.; and \u003Cstrong\u003EJeb Stewart\u003C\/strong\u003E, Cls. 1991 chairman and CEO of SciHealth Holdings, Inc. and president of Xana Management. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0022All our panel discussions are interactive and give students a rare opportunity to ask questions of CEOs. The panelists discuss the most important communication skills needed to move up the career ladder,* said Norback.   The executives in Norback\u0027s panels also concentrate on communication skills for cross-cultural business interaction. After the one-hour panel interaction, time is allowed for students to meet the executives one-on-one.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Panel is one part of the workforce communication instruction for the Senior Design course.  Making our graduate\u0027s job competitive and enabling them to move quickly up the career ladder are the two goals of the instruction.  Other workforce communication instructional elements include small group feedback in the Workforce Communication Lab before and after class presentations, videotaping of class presentations, and an in-class Tutorial on Workforce Presentation. The instruction is based on interviews conducted with practicing ISyEs, managers, and CEOs of organizations employing many IEs.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPast executives and companies who have participated in the ISyE Senior Executive Panel on Workforce Communication include:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBird Blitch\u003C\/strong\u003E, BSIE 1997, Broadsource Pepper Bullock, Northwestern Mutual Financial Network\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWally Buran\u003C\/strong\u003E, BSIE 1975, MSIE 1978, Edenfield Executive-in-Residence, ISyE at Georgia Tech\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlan Dabbiere\u003C\/strong\u003E, Wandering WiFi\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETom Dozier\u003C\/strong\u003E, BSIE 1963, GoldMech \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChuck Easley\u003C\/strong\u003E, BSIM 1886, Kurt Salmon Associates\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMel Hall\u003C\/strong\u003E, BSIE 1967, Comprehensive Health Services\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJody Markopoulos\u003C\/strong\u003E, GE \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDon Pirkle\u003C\/strong\u003E, BSIE 1958, Dow Chemical\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBill Reed\u003C\/strong\u003E, BSIE 1957, MSIE 1963, Kurt Salmon Associates\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChip Robert\u003C\/strong\u003E, BSIE 1960, Robert Ltd.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Sanders\u003C\/strong\u003E, Delta Technology\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJeb Stewart\u003C\/strong\u003E, Cls. 1991, SciHealth\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on the panel, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/communication\u0022\u003Ewww.isye.gatech.edu\/communication\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEach semester, Dr. Judith Norback, ISyE\u0027s director of Workplace and Academic Communication, pulls together a group of top industry executives from a variety of fields to interact directly with ISyE students in Senior Design. This year\u0027s panel included Chip Robert, David McKenney, John McKenney, and Jeb Stewart.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Senior Design students learn communication tips"}],"uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2007-04-02 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:12","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2007-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"50212":{"id":"50212","type":"image","title":"Panel discusses importance of workplace communicat","body":null,"created":"1449175437","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:43:57","changed":"1475894471","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:11","alt":"Panel discusses importance of workplace communicat","file":{"fid":"127151","name":"tmu47281.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tmu47281_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tmu47281_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":54932,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tmu47281_0.jpg?itok=ksEBfh7i"}}},"media_ids":["50212"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3984","name":"panel"},{"id":"8095","name":"workforce communications"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}