Early Career Technical Conference
(ECTC)
Held Annually in conjunction with the annual Student Professional Development Conferences (SPDC)

2008 Call for Papers

In today's competitive engineering job market, employers and engineering managers are looking for the technical credentials that separate one candidate from another. The District, in keeping with ASME's mission of promoting and enhancing the technical competency and professional well-being of our members, ASME has organized this conference as a forum for ME graduate students to develop their technical credentials and to establish their professional identity. This program is designed to enhance the ability of graduate students and early career engineers to compete in an ever more demanding and changing global market place by providing and developing the skills and the demonstrated technical performance that will make them standout among their peers.

In providing conferences such as this, the District also wants to establish a bond between ASME and the early career engineer that encourages continued participation in ASME activities, increased use of ASME resources and programs, and reinforces the concept of "ASME for a Lifetime."

Abstracts

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History: The ASME Region X Graduate Student Technical Conference (GSTC) was continued by ASME District E when ASME reorganized in 2005. In 2007 this conference was expanded to include all ASME graduate student members in North America and renamed the Graduate Student Research and Innovations Conference (GSRIC). In 2008 this conference was subsidized by the ASME Old Guard and expanded to include practicing engineers who graduated within the past 5 years and therefore the name once again was changed to Early Career Technical Conference (ECTC).