Carnegie Mellon Engineering

Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon Engineering Students to Host Industry Panel About Creating Innovation

November 6, 2008

Contact: Chriss Swaney
Carnegie Mellon University
412.268.5776

EVENT: Carnegie Mellon University engineering students will host a panel of distinguished industrial participants to explore the theme, "Creating Cultures of Innovation," at a national leadership conference designed to help students improve leadership skills and gain valuable career advice.

Panel members include Joseph Havrilla, senior vice president and chief technology officer of Medrad; Ron Hodge, partner at Booz Allen Hamilton; Greg Lester, vice president of Dynetics and Jane Rudolph, vice president at Lockheed Martin Corp. and a 1979 graduate of Carnegie Mellon’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).

The panel session is just one of many activities scheduled by ECE’s Eta Kappa Nu chapter, a national honor society for electrical and computer engineering students. More than 100 students of Eta Kappa Nu from 28 universities are expected to attend the leadership conference this weekend at Carnegie Mellon.   
 
WHEN: 2:30 p.m.- 4:30 p.m., Saturday, November 8.

WHERE: Singleton Room, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pgh. Pa. 15213.