At approximately 9:24 a.m. on Friday, April 19, a University of Maine graduate student was struck by a university vehicle on Long Road at the University of Maine campus in Orono. The student reports that they are at a local hospital with minor injuries.
Emergency services, including the Orono Fire Department, University Volunteer Ambulance Corps, University of Maine Police Department, Orono Police Department and Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene.
The university vehicle involved in the incident was a Chevrolet Express van. It was being operated by a university employee.
Counseling services and support are available for students, faculty or staff who may have been affected. The Counseling Center can be reached at 207-581-1392 and the Dean of Students Office can be reached at 207-581-1406.
The scene has been cleared and Long Road is now accessible. An investigation is being conducted by the University of Maine Police Department with assistance from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office Crash Reconstruction Unit. Any witnesses to the incident are encouraged to contact Lt. Noel Santiago at noel.santiago@maine.edu.
Employers are looking for leaders with technical skills not just great engineers!
Why do you need strong leadership skills?
– Increases your job opportunities
– Increases your advancement potential
– Increases your pay
– Increases your job satisfaction
When will you need leadership skills?
– Senior class project
– Summer internship
– Day one in your first engineering job
– Your last day on the job when you retire
– Every day in between
You may be thinking:
“I wasn’t born a leader, I’m scr~#ed!!!!!” But have no fear leadership is a learned skill just like second-order differential equations, except a lot easier, way more fun, and a skill that you will use EVERY DAY. [Note: I guarantee that you will not be using second-order differential equations every day of your engineering career. I’m sure that this makes 99.9999999% of you very happy.]
How do you learn leadership skills?
Take GEE230Introduction to Engineering Leadership and Management. This is a one-credit course where you learn and practice leadership skills. There are two different sections on Mondays: 1:00-1:50 PM and 2:00-2:50 PM
Who teaches the course?
Yours truly, Dana Humphrey, Dean of Engineering [Note: you don’t get extra points for taking a course from the dean, but sometimes it helps to know the boss.]
What will you learn in GEE230?
– Difference between leadership and management
– How not to be a seagull manager [Note: seagull managers fly in, make lots of noise, craps on everyone, and then fly out]
– Your leadership style
– How to lead people with different personalities, needs, and skill levels
– How to motivate people (and it is a lot more than just $$$!)
– Effective one-to-one communication
– How to make good decisions
– How to use intuition to make decisions [Note: you can’t get all the answers you need by plugging numbers into an equation or developing a flow chart with eight million branches. It is also not acceptable to just make a SWAG – scientific wild ass guess.]
– Team building
– Professional responsibility and ethics
As part of this course you will also get to meet some great engineering leaders.