SAE Congress Roadmap for the Young Engineer

Your early career years are a time of intense development from proficient practitioner toward expert status in your profession and within your company. It is a time to gain recognition for your on-the-job accomplishments and make plans to further enhance your professional capabilities and your solid reputation. Perhaps most importantly, it is also a time to begin making an impact—putting your personal stamp—on the future of your industry and your community.

SAE can help you advance on ALL these fronts with a collection of resources and opportunities designed for this time in your career.

Theater Sessions

• Making Green Cool While Staying in the Black
• The Roadmap to 35MPG: What Technologies Will Get Us There?
• Which Hybrid Concepts Will Rise to the Top? The Race to the Marketplace
• Does Green Matter in a Try-to-Survive Market?
• A Production Strategy for the Future: How to Change from Producing Cars to a Flexible Solutions Configuration
• Standards Information Session—featuring the Hybrid Standards Committee

Full theater session schedules:

• AVL Technology Leadership Theater
• FEV Powertrain Innovation Forum
• SAE Executive Business Theater

Technical Sessions

• Advanced Hybrid Vehicle Powertrains
• Fuel Cell Vehicle Applications
• Hydrogen IC Engines
• Fundamental Advances in Thermal & Fluid Sciences
• New Revelations in Mobility History
• Automobile Electronics and Systems
• Lightweight Vehicles
• Nanotechnology for Automotive Applications
• Management and Leadership in Engineering & Manufacturing Organizations
• Body Engineering and Design

Full technical session schedules by technology:

• Electronics
• Emissions/Environment
• Integrated Design & Manufacturing
• Management & Marketplace
• Materials
• Propulsion/Powertrain
• Safety/Testing

Career Development, Education and Leadership

• Career Center and Career Fair
• Celebrating Leadership Workshop
• Management and Leadership in Engineering and Manufacturing Organizations
• Engineering Education

Professional Development Seminars

• Introduction to Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Battery Systems
• Fundamentals of Metal Fatigue Analysis
• Fundamentals of Automotive All-Wheel Drive Systems
• Fundamentals of Modern Vehicle Transmissions
• Engineering Project Management
• Introduction to Brake Control Systems: ABS, TCS, and ESC
• Fundamentals of Aerodynamics Applied to Race Cars

Full list of professional development seminars

Set Yourself Apart from Your Colleagues
It's National Volunteer's Week and your opportunity to learn more—onsite at Congress—about SAE volunteer opportunities that can help you build your professional portfolio. Add to your credentials, enhance your skills, even make a difference in your community with these volunteer opportunities from SAE:

• A World In Motion� —See this K-12 SAE program in action—a teacher administered, volunteer-assisted design experience—500 area students compete onsite at the Jet Toy Olympics
• Technical Paper Authorship
• Standards Development- Learn more at the Standards Hot Spot or attend a committee meeting

SAE 2009 World Congress Networking Night
Sponsored by the SAE Detroit Section
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 22
Location: Volt Lounge - GM Renaissance Center
(two blocks from Cobo Hall, in the lobby of the Marriott Hotel)

Engineering professionals are invited to meet and network with fellow SAE members and discuss current social and business topics. There is no cost for admission and everyone is responsible for their own tab. Don't forget to bring extra business cards!

SAE Awards Ceremony: Honoring Excellence
Among the honorees will be recipients of these young professional and student awards

• Edward N. Cole Distinguished Younger Member Award
• Russell S. Springer Award
• Myers Award for Outstanding Student Paper
• Rumbaugh Outstanding Student Leader Award