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                         PACE Patter - October 1996

Where were you Labor Day week-end?  Approximately three hundred
of your IEEE volunteer leaders were  giving up their holiday to attend 
the 1996 PACE Conference and Workshop in Phoenix, Arizona. The  
temperature of 105 was no hotter than some of the discussions held on
 many different topics of concern to  the Professional Activities 
Committee for Engineers (PACE).

The theme of this year's conference was "Changing Environments: 
The Proactive Engineer.  In addition to  the more traditional sessions 
there was a parallel track aimed specifically for the Young 
Professional (YP)  although all sessions were open to all attendees and 
YPs attended traditional sessions and many mature  engineers 
attended the YP sessions. Among subjects on the traditional track were 
Building a Section Media  Network, The Employment Cybersearch: 
Job Hunting on the Internet, Building Careers With Networking,  
Finding A Job, Mid-Career Investment/ Financial Strategies, The 
PACE Planning Process, Managing  Career Transitions, The 
Engineering Career Crisis, Early Retirement Decisions and others.

The Young Professionals had sessions on Personal Positioning for the 
Young Professional, Outside Forces  Affecting Your Career, The 
GOLD (Graduates Of the Last Decade) Program, The Volatile 
Working  Environment, Virtual Organizations, Managing Your 
Career As If It Were A Business, Balancing Your  Personal and 
Professional Life, Early Career Investment Strategies and several 
others.  About sixty of the  attendees were in the Young Professional 
category which was about 20 percent of the total.

All the sessions were intended to make the participants proactive 
engineers in this present world of  changing environments.  In 
addition to becoming better informed themselves, the attendees were 
charged  with taking all their new knowledge back to their Sections 
and sharing it with their colleagues by providing  programs or articles 
on topics of particular interest to the Section.  If there is a professional 
topic of  particular interest to you, whether listed above or not, please 
contact Daniel W. Jackson,  , 540/774-0484.  He 
will be willing to provide information or steer you to additional  
resources.

                Dan Jackson 

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