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Engaged Exchange Panel

Leading Self

Yeeting Your Degree Across the Room: Lessons From Manufacturing

Thursday, October 23, 2025
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CT
Location: MCCNO 243-245
Graduates from engineering school often wonder what percentage of their curriculum is actually applied at their first job. Who can say what class prepares you for smelling like concentrated caramel in a conference meeting or driving home with pasta dust all over your car? Join our speakers as they explore skills engineering school equipped them with and what it didn’t, drawing from personal experiences from the manufacturing floor. Attendees can expect to laugh and learn as the team reflects on the importance of being curious, leveraging your resources, and more, while figuratively (or literally, for some) “yeeting” their degrees across the room.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe an engineer’s role in manufacturing.
  • Recognize transferable skills from classroom to career.
  • Identify outside-the-classroom skills needed to excel at work.