Student Seminar 2006 11 10 Industry Career

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ERC CISST - Student Seminar
How to search, apply and negotiate for an industry career

Date: Friday, November 10, 2006
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00 pm, Lunch will be served before the seminar.
Place: Shaffer 301

Agenda

12:00 – 12:05 PM
Welcome & Speaker Introduction

12:10 – 1:00 PM
Guest speaker, discussion and Q&A session
Title: How to search, apply and negotiate for an industry career

Abstract:

For students wanting to get into industry, how to be successful in industry? How does one get to a good company and then how does one grow inside? What should one expect?

Biographies:

Mark Presnell, Ph.D. - Mark was named Director of the Career Center at Johns Hopkins in the Spring of 2006. Prior to Hopkins, he worked for seven and a half years at the University of Rochester where he supervised the internship program and coordinated both on and off-campus recruiting. Prior to University of Rochester, Mark worked at University of Virginia and the University of Kansas. He holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Kansas and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Purdue.

Ms. Lani S. Hummel has thirty years experience in the academic, federal and private sectors. She is currently the Director of Industrial Initiatives at the Whiting School of Engineering (WSE) at the Johns Hopkins University. She is responsible for organizing and maintaining an active program of collaboration between the Whiting School and industry. She works with individual companies and organizations to match the research interests and capabilities of WSE faculty and students with industry needs.

Prior to joining the Whiting School, Ms. Hummel established and managed the Mid-Atlantic Technology Applications Center (MTAC), one of NASA’s six Regional Technology Transfer Centers (RTTCs), at the University of Pittsburgh. In this capacity, Ms. Hummel designed and implemented programs to generate collaborative partnerships among government, industry and academic institutions for the purpose of improving the competitiveness of U.S. companies.

Ms. Hummel began her career in Washington, DC, as a policy analyst in the Congressional Research Service’s Science Policy Research Division. She was later promoted to Head of the Aerospace, Energy, and Transportation Section. She next served as Manager of Congressional Relations for the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) and subsequently held a number of consulting analyst positions in the areas of aviation safety, defense procurement, telecommunications policy, and space commercialization.

Ms. Hummel began providing program management support and strategic planning assistance to NASA’s Technology Utilization Division in 1988. She was then named Director of the Washington Office of the NASA Industrial Applications Center (NIAC) where she was responsible for promoting NASA’s technology transfer program in the greater Washington/Baltimore area. In 1990, Ms. Hummel became Executive Director of NIAC in Pittsburgh. In 1991, she developed and authored a successful proposal to establish MTAC.

Ms. Hummel is a graduate of Hollins University and The George Washington University’s National Law Center. She is the author of more than 30 publications in technology policy.