Location:
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Student Union
4505 S. Maryland Pkwy
Las Vegas, NV 89154
Campus Map: http://maps.unlv.edu/msu.html

Date:
Saturday, Oct. 21, 2006
9:00 AM - 5:15 PM

Join your engineering peers and students at the Las Vegas Early Career Forum taking place in conjunction with the first Conference on Water Quality, Drought, Human Health & Engineering. This program will give you first hand advice and information relevant to your career and provide you with important information on issues taking place around the globe.

9:00am - 10:00am - Registration & Breakfast

10:00am - 10:15am - Welcome & Introduction

10:15am - 11:00am - Effective Management
Get an overview of how to lead a group of engineers or volunteers in a project team environment.

11:00am - 11:45am - Innovative Engineering Solutions for More Water
Learn about the latest and exciting developments in clean water production for the Southwest and globally.

11:45am - 1:15pm - Lunch, Resume Workshop and Poster Session
Balance your lunch break between receiving help with your resume, networking with your peers, and reviewing and voting on the informational posters from the ASME Water Conference.

1:15pm - 2:00pm - Engineers Without Borders, Delivering Water to the Third World
Learn about how Engineers Without Borders-USA is using non-profit project teams to engineer and deliver water to the third world.

2:00pm - 3:00pm - Panel on Future Technologies

3:00pm - 5:15pm - Apprentice Competition Take part in the Early Career Forum Apprentice Competition. This is an opportunity to apply the information you will learn during the day to solve a real world design problem. Attendees will be broken up into six teams to compete against one another for the title of 2006 Las Vegas ECF Apprentice Winner!

Registration Fee (includes breakfast and lunch):
$10 student ASME member
$10 student EWB member
$15 student non-member

$30 professional ASME member
$30 professional EWB member
$40 professional non-member

URL for Registration: http://www.acteva.com/go/ECF

UNLV recommended hotel accommodations: http://www.unlv.edu/main/hotelsNear.html