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Mentoring Concrete Professionals

3/23/2018

ACI Committee S802, Teaching Methods and Educational Materials, will present a special session at The Concrete Convention and Exposition, Monday, March 26, 2018, in Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

“Elevating Mentorship of Concrete Professionals” will consist of two parts: a presentation from the Walter P. Moore award recipient; and a panel session on mentoring of students and young professors/professionals to include undergraduate and graduate students, interns, post-doctoral researchers, and new hires in academia and industry.

Attendees will learn how to recognize the positive impact of mentorship and its relationship to learning; identify key qualities of an effective mentor; discuss and differentiate mentoring strategies for students and young professionals; and explain how to establish a successful mentor-protégé relationship.

Matthew Lovell, of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology will head the Walter P. Moore Awardee Presentation. The panel session includes Karla Kruse, Wiss Janney Elstner Associates; Megan Sarah Voss, University of Florida; Tarek S Khan, BASF Construction, and Chemicals; and William M Hale, University of Arkansas.

If you are involved or interested in effective mentoring strategies, bring your questions to this session and find out more on mentoring concrete professionals.

If you'd like to participate in the conversation but are unable to attend the session, you may submit your questions here and follow the Facebook Live Stream during the session.

The Speaker Development Breakfast, also sponsored by ACI Committee S802, will be held on Monday, March 26 at 7:00 a.m. Committee Chair, Arsenio Caceres-Fernandez, Civil Engineering Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, will discuss “Low-tech Solutions to Enhance Presentations.”