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Student Section Activities

Student Professional Development Conference (SPDC)

    WHO Should Attend?

    • All ASME Student Members
    • All ASME Student Section Advisors

    Purpose:

    • Provide a forum to train officers and future leaders.
    • Create networking opportunities.
    • Host student competitions.
    • Supply a forum for technology transfer for undergraduate and graduate students.
    • Introduce students to the real ASME (beyond pizza parties and contests to include technical divisions and community relations) and what ASME can do for your career.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    StudentLeadershipSeminar
    (SLS)

    WHO Should Attend?

    • All ASME Student Section Officers and Committee Chairs
    • All ASME Student Section Advisors
    • Any ASME Student Member who would like more information on what to expect from their student section or is considering becoming a part of the Student Section Management Team in the future.

    What You Gain:

    • Knowledge of ASME's organization and structure so that you can understand the role student sections play in fostering professionalism.
    • Tools and resources that can enhance your efficiency as a student section leader.
    • Leadership and management skills that will better enable you to run your student section and will also carry over as you enter the workplace.
    • A better understanding of ASME's member benefits that focuses on how you can leverage these benefits to aid your career development and also promote membership to other students.
    • An opportunity to meet and network with students from other universities and with ASME district leadership.
      A fun and enjoyable experience that is also educational.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Student Professional Development Conferences (SPDC)
    Early Career Technical Conference
    (AKAGraduate Student Research & Innovations Conference) (GSRIC)

     

    ASME Competitions at the Spring
    Student Professional Development Conference (SPDC)

    Old Guard Oral Presentation Competition
    An engineer, like all professionals, must possess a well-developed ability to communicate, both orally and in writing. This competition is designed to emphasize the value of an ability to deliver oral presentations.

    Old Guard Technical Poster Competition
    Engineers, like all professionals, must possess a well-developed ability to communicate. This poster competition, held at North American District ASME Student Professional Development Conferences, is designed to emphasize the ability to deliver a visual presentation. Subject matter is to be related to some area in the field of mechanical engineering.

    Old Guard Technical Web Page Competition
    Engineers, like all professionals, must possess a well-developed ability to communicate. This web page competition, held at district level Student Professional Development Conferences, is intended to encourage the delivery of visual presentations using web page technology. The subject matter is to be related to some area in the field of mechanical engineering.

    Student Design Competition
    The ASME Student Design Competition provides a platform for ASME Student Members to present their solutions to a range of design problems-– from everyday household tasks to groundbreaking space exploration. Each team is required to design, construct and operate a prototype meeting the requirements of an annually determined problem statement.

     

    Additional Competitions that may be held at
    Student Professional Development Conference (SPDC)

    Design Review Competition
    Following graduation, many engineering students find themselves participating in or leading multidisciplinary project teams to develop design solutions to large industry challenges. Other engineering graduates pursue entrepreneurship and self-employment, trying to capitalize on an original idea or design by starting up their own businesses. In these roles, and others, working engineers find numerous opportunities where they must convince decision makers, whether they be Vice Presidents of multi-level organizations or venture capitalists, to fund or authorize further development or commercialization of their design or product.

    Rapid Design Challenge
    Innovation is widely viewed by industry as the cornerstone of competitiveness; therefore, the ability to generate and present creative solutions to real-world problems is a valuable skill. The Rapid Design Challenge (RDC) provides engineering students with an opportunity to focus on conceptual design, the foundation of the design process. Participants will be provided with a real-world industry-focused design challenge and tasked with quickly generating creative solutions, assessing their feasibility and selecting the most promising concept(s).