Wednesday, November 18th 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
This event was organized by the Metro New York Section of the AIChE for all Juniors/Seniors/Grad Students in chemical engineering programs in schools in the Metro Area.
AIChE Student Career Day at the Chem Show
Keynote Speaker:
Carl Selinger is author of "Stuff You Don't Learn in Engineering School" and Adjunct Professor, The Cooper Union
Carl Selinger (Keynote Speaker) ‐ Consultant
Carl is an independent consultant helping aviation and trans-portation organizations with business strategy and applying new technologies. Carl gives professional development seminars – including his unique “Stuff You Don’t Learn in Engineering School” – to teach the non‐technical soft skills that are important to be effective in the real world.
His seminar, "Stuff You Don't Learn in Engineering School," has helped several thousand engineers and other professionals learn non‐technical soft skills – like decision‐making, setting priorities and managing time, negotiating, teamwork, running meetings, and writing and speaking better – to be more effective and happier persons.
Carl holds civil and transportation engineering degrees from Cooper Union, Yale University, and Polytechnic University.
Panelists: from CH2M Hill, Con Edison, Google, and Greenberg Traurig
Rachel Friedman (Panelist) ‐ Con Edison 
Rachel has worked at Con Edison for seven years in various positions. She has worked as an Engineer in the company's Waste Water Treatment Plant, acted as the Results Supervisor monitoring boiler efficiency, and now acts as the Project Manager for a Demineralized Water Purification System at a steam generating station. Rachel holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University and is currently in the process of working towards her M.B.A. at NYU’s Stern School of Business.
Brenda Lando (Panelist) ‐ Google 
Brenda has worked at Google since January 2007 in Advertising Sales with a focus on Healthcare clients. Prior to coming to Google, she spent six years at Merck as a manufacturing engineer then in field sales, selling prescription medicine and vaccines to Primary Care Physicians in Manhattan. Brenda holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Bucknell University and a M.B.A. in Marketing, Finance, and Global Business from NYU’s Stern School of Graduate Business.
Barry Schindler (Panelist) ‐ Greenberg Traurig 
Barry is Co‐Chair of the Greenberg Traurig's Patent Prosecution Group and a shareholder in its Intellectual Property & Technology Dept. He has more than 20 years of legal experience in all aspects of intellectual property law, including multidisciplinary litigation experience. Barry has helped companies of all sizes build and manage significant patent portfolios, develop in‐house procedures, and formulate intellectual property strategies. He positions clients to gain a competitive advantage by identifying patentable subject matter and drafting claims in such a way that infringement becomes possible to prove. He works closely with the U.S. Patent Office to train Patent Examiners. Barry was a chemical engineer with Fortune 100 companies for seven years prior to law school.
Yasha Zelmanovich (Panelist) ‐ CH2M Hill 
Yasha is a Technical Discipline Lead at CH2M HILL, an employee‐owned, multinational firm providing engineering, construction, operations, communications, security, environmental, and related services to public and private clients in numerous industries worldwide. His primary responsibility is managing Process Engineering activities in the firm’s Somerset, NJ office, which focuses on the design and construction of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and food processing facilities. Yasha is also an adjunct professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he teaches in the school’s Pharmaceutical Engineering program.
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