April Meeting Details Next Meeting Date: 4/24/2008 Meeting Time: Networking 6:15PM to 6:45PM Dinner and Meeting 6:45PM Meeting Location: The Beef Barn 400 St. Andrews Drive, Greenville, NC
Cost to Attend: $20 Members $10 Student Chapter Members

Seminar Information Seminar Topic: Project Management for a Flat World. Seminar Overview: In today’s world, complexity and speed are prerequisites for projects. In such an environment, a good axiom for project management is, Do It, Do It Right, and Do It Right Now. Do it right the first time. Creating clear direction, efficiency, timely response, and quality outcomes requires project managers who are agile -- adept at change. The Project Management Institute defines project management as “…the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to a broad range of activities in order to meet the requirements of a particular project.” A very sound, technical definition. This course will go beyond the technical and look at what makes projects work, people. Program Objective: Project management is about motivating and leading people, communicating with people, building teams, interfacing with customers and regulators, managers and subordinates, leaders and followers. It is important to understand the planning, the controlling, the scheduling, the checking and the start-up testing, but these technical parts are all competed with people. This seminar will dissect the technical side of project management as a process for reconstructing project management as a people process. It is the people that makes or breaks project management. Presented By: Gene Dixon, MBA, PhD Presenter's Biography: Gene Dixon has been a faculty member at East Carolina University in the Department of Engineering since 2005 and teaches engineering professional practices, engineering economics and leadership/followership topics to aspiring engineers and technologists. Previously, he has held positions in industry with Union Carbide, Chicago Bridge & Iron, E.I. DuPont & deNemours, Westinghouse Electric, CBS, Viacom and Washington Group as a welding engineering, project engineer, process safety engineer, principle engineer, project engineer and project manager as well as serving as both a production manager and outage manager for multiple DOE nuclear reactors. He received a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering and Engineering Management from The University of Alabama in Huntsville, a Masters of Business Administration from Nova Southeastern University and a Bachelor of Science in Materials Engineering from Auburn University. Noted for a quick wit, Dixon is an engineer with personality. He can bring a smile to your face while explaining complex engineering theory or organizational management issues. He has spoken to over 25,000 people as a corporate trainer, teacher and motivational speaker. Dixon was part of the opening panel discussion for the 16th Annual Kravis-de Roulet Leadership conference in 2006 and has been an invited presenter to the National Society for Professional Engineers in previous years. Not afraid to explore the boundaries of life, he accepted a project to perform an Elvis impersonation for a Red Hat Society local meeting—once. Dr. Dixon’s research interests include leadership, followership, teams, organizational culture as it relates to leader-follower relations and personnel development. He has authored multiple articles on followers within an organizational setting. PDH's Earned for attending: 1.5 hours RSVP to: Moses Singh, PE msingh@riversandassociates.com phone (252) 752-4135 Fax (252) 752-3974

Additional Information Chapter President: William J. McClung, PE (juhling@suddenlink.net)

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