MEM Webinar on Agile Management
Join a Conversation with Jay Goldstein on June 7
Join
Jay Goldstein, MEM Industry Advisory Board member and
founder of Jabbok River Group, a Chicago-based Agile training and coaching consultancy, for a webinar discussion on Wednesday, June 7 from Noon - 1:00 PM
The webinar will discuss how leading companies get beyond the rigidities of traditional management and acquire the breakthrough capabilities involved in making the entire organization agile.
Based on the five shifts necessary for an agile transformation, you will get an introduction on how to implement the elements of radical management as an integrated whole so as to get extraordinary results for your or
ganization, your customers and your workforce.
The event is also just one example of the way Northwestern's MEM program prepares its students and alumni to stay abreast of timely and emerging topics in the field of engineering management - we also encourage you to invite a colleague!
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New Faculty Introduction: Birju Shah
New Course MEM490: Product Management Coming in Fall Quarter
Birju Shah is joining MEM program with a new course,
MEM490: Product Management
, opening in the Fall 2017. Graduating from Northwestern University with a bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering/Economics and a MBA degree from Sloan School of Management at MIT, Birju is currently a Group Product Manager at The Climate Corporation and advisor to several Silicon Valley, Boston, and Chicago start-ups. He draws upon 15 years of building, launching, and scaling software, hardware, and big data solutions to solve large consumer problems.
Birju's philosophy when building products is to "Trust the process. Go to Work." Using a case based and action learning philosophy, Birju teaches the process of how to build products and companies to scale. His classes focus on: ideation, problem identification, design, usability, measurability, engineering execution, go to market, fundraising, partnerships, scale, moving the needle, and the path to profit.
Birju hopes to work with students who are eager to achieve scale and see ideas to execution either as product innovators in large organizations or as their own founder.
Welcome Professor Shah, and stay tuned for a blog post describing the new product management course in MEM!
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Student Advisory Board to Host June Rock Painting
Annual Graduation Tradition Open to Family and Alumni
Graduation is quickly approaching and to celebrate MEM will be hosting our annual rock painting event
at Noon on Saturday, June 10th
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Attendees will meet at the usual Northwestern Lakefill area (behind the Norris University Center) for a lunch picnic and the graduating students will work together to paint a rock for the Class of 2017. This is a family friendly event.
Please RSVP to help us generate a head count to prepare for our picnic.
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David Morton Named Chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Morton will succeed Jorge Nocedal on September 1
David Morton, professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, has been named chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences (IEMS) at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering, effective September 1.
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MEM Student & Alum Spotlight
Monthly Feature Recognizing Our Current Students and Alumni
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STUDENT
Growing up in Chicago, Douglas earned his undergrad degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He works as a project manager in Swenson Technology during weekdays, and becomes a bagpiper with Chicago Stockyard Band during his weekends. You can spot him in numerous parades and competitions throughout the Midwest during the year! We asked him to share a little bit about his interests and his MEM experience.
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blog
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Douglas Dow,
Northwestern University MEM Student
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Daryl Richardson, ComEd,
MEM Alumnus
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ALUM
Daryl was originally from Evanston. He earned his first degree in Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering Technology at Indiana State University, pursued his degree at Northwestern University afterwards, and now works as Manager, Chicago New Business at
ComEd. In his spare time, he loves to play poker, and sometimes he would also stop by Bob Chinn's Crab House for seafood!
We asked him to share a little bit of his MEM
experience with us.
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blog
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