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1. IEEE Student Professional
Awareness
Rob Vice ([email protected])
Past-Region 1 SPAC Coordinator
2012 R1 Training Workshop
Downtown Marriott, Hartford, CT
10 March 2012

2. Agenda
Professional Awareness
S-PAC & S-PAVe
Student Benefits and Involvement

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As defined within IEEE
“Professional awareness is the emphasizing of
the importance of the non-technical aspects of
engineering to engineers and future engineers.”
What is Professional Awareness?

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Career growth
•Continuing education
•Effective communication
Working
•Balancing work with personal life
•Expectations versus reality
Professional ethics and social responsibility
•Individual and corporate responsibility
•Coping with ethical dilemmas
Professional Awareness Categories

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Self-management
•Managing your career
•Time management
Engineer and public policy
•Grassroots activism
•Understanding how government works
Importance of the professional society
•Networking
•Benefits
Professional Awareness Categories

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Student Professional Awareness Conferences (S-PAC)
Students plan and run the event with consultation from
SPAC Regional Coordinators
The students do all project management
Presentation or panel format related to the professional
awareness categories
Topics are selected by students in consultation with SPAC
Regional Coordinators (Regions 1-6) who will advise on
finding speakers
What Are S-PACs?

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Organizers of S-PACs gain project management
experience (impressive on resumes)
Attendees leave with a continuous consciousness of
a non-technical aspect that will be useful for the rest
of their lives
Initial networking with someone in industry
Successful S-PACs at a branch makes it easier for
that branch to institute the event on a regular basis
Student Benefits for S-PACs

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Student Professional Awareness Ventures
Venture can take on any form except presentation format
Student branch submits proposal based on the
professional awareness categories with budget and
schedule
The students do all project management
Start-up funds are available to initiate venture
“Free flowing” format enables creativity
What Are S-PAVes?

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Suggested formats
•Service
•CDs, videos
•Workshop
•Simulations
•Resource materials
Can span days, weeks, months, within
one semester/quarter
S-PAVe Formats

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Develop activities / materials to enhance
professional awareness and provide service to
members
Enable student branches to gain experience in
project conception, planning, and organization
Increase student membership (freshmen,
sophomores, juniors, seniors, graduate students)
Student Benefits for S-PAVes

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Comparison of S-PAC and S-PAVe
S-PAC S-PAVe
Event Conference Project
National Speakers Yes No
Time Frame Usually 1-day
Usually few weeks or
partial semester
Seed Money No Yes
Funding for Speakers Yes No
Main Contact Regional CoordinatorRegional Coordinator

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Steps for Organizing a
Student Professional
Awareness Conference

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Step 1: Visit S-PAC Website &
Contact your Regional Coordinators

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Example topics
•Industry life as told by a “survivor”
•Grad school versus school of life
•Multitalented: the Swiss army engineer
•Pros and cons of large versus small companies
•Consulting - is it for me?
SPAC will support travel expenses for 1 national
speaker
You may be able to use a 2nd national speaker if they
are geographically local to your school
Step 2: Decide on Topics (2 or 3) and Inform
SPAC Coordinator

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www.ieeeusa.org/volunteers/committ
ees/spac/speaker_topic.asp
Step 3: Review List of Potential Speakers – Seek
Approval from SPAC Coordinator to Invite

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www.ieeeusa.org/volunteers/committ
ees/spac/files/NEW_spac_PlanGuide
_rev2.xls
Step 4: Complete the Budget Sheet and E-mail to
Your SPAC Coordinator

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www.ieeeusa.org/volunteers/committees/spac/files/NEW_spac_PlanGuide_rev2.xls
Step 4: Complete the Budget Sheet and E-mail to
Your SPAC Coordinator

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Potential Income Sources
Ticket Sales
Industry Donation
University
IEEE Local
Section/Region
MGA Subsidy (when
needed as a safety net)
IEEE Societies/Chapters
Minimize Expenditures
Forego spending on
elaborate meals and
refreshments
No need for catering
halls (large classrooms
are fine)
Note that the SPAC Committee will pay for the approved National
Speakers travel expenses, and are “off-budget” to the students
planning process
S-PAC / S-PAVe Budget Considerations

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STEP 5. Publicize the event
STEP 6. Prepare for event
STEP 7. After event, collect feedback from
attendees and submit S-PAC Final
Report to your Coordinator
STEP 8. Document lessons learned for the
next S-PAC
Remaining Steps for Organizing the S-PAC or
S-PAVe

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Students gain insight into topics pertinent to their careers,
such as financial planning and career growth
Attendees leave with a continuous consciousness of non-
technical aspects that will be useful for the rest of their lives
Student conference committee members gain valuable
management and planning skills
Student Branches build momentum for holding regular events
in the future
S-PACs and S-PAVes Teach Students to be Leaders
Benefits to Students

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Get Started
Visit the IEEE USA SPAC Web site at:
www.ieee.org/SPAC

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Questions???

25. For additional information
please contact:
[email protected]
Charles Rubenstein ([email protected])
Support Coordinators:
Rob Vice ([email protected]) (Past R1 SPAC Coordinator)
Krenar Komoni ([email protected] )
SPAC Planning Guide & Resources for Students and Coordinators
http://www.ieee.org/SPAC
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