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Seminars

Explore upcoming and past seminars featuring industry professionals, research leaders and trending topics in industrial engineering.

Last Updated: 05/26/2026 | All information is accurate and still up-to-date

Past Seminars

2026

2025

2024

  • December 6, 2024
    Join us in welcoming Josh Domeyer, a research scientist at Toyota, as he discusses industrial engineering topics.

  • November 22, 2024
    Join us in welcoming Zhenyu Kong, a professor from Virginia Tech University, as he discusses Smart Additive Manufacturing.

  • November 15, 2024
    Join us in welcoming Sneha Narra, an assistant professor from Carnegie Mellon University, as she discusses industrial engineering topics.

  • November 8, 2024
    Join us in welcoming Denis Cormier, a professor from Rochester Institute of Technology, as he discusses industrial engineering topics.

  • November 1, 2024
    Join us in welcoming Hamed Rahimian, an assistant professor from Clemson University, as he discusses stochastic optimization.

  • October 25, 2024
    Join us in welcoming Ziteng Wang, an associate professor from Northern Illinois University, as he discusses industrial engineering topics.

  • October 18, 2024
    Join us in welcoming Susan Sanchez, a professor from the Naval Postgraduate School, as she discusses data farming.

  • October 11, 2024
    Join us in welcoming Jiming Peng, an associate professor from the University of Houston, as he discusses industrial engineering topics.

  • October 4, 2024
    Join us in welcoming Constance Crozier, an assistant professor from Georgia Institute of Technology, as she discusses industrial engineering topics.

  • September 27, 2024
    Join us in welcoming Tyler Kroon, an engineering research librarian at NC State, as he gives you more information about NC State libraries.

  • September 20, 2024
    Join us in welcoming Jordan Kern, one of ISE’s assistant professors, as he discusses the emerging vulnerabilities in low-carbon energy systems.

  • September 13, 2024
    Join us in welcoming Osman Ozaltin, one of ISE’s associate professors, as he discusses industrial engineering topics.

  • September 6, 2024
    Join us in welcoming Sara Shashaani, one of ISE’s assistant professors, as she discusses industrial engineering topics.

  • August 23, 2024
    Join us in welcoming Russell King, ISE Director of Graduate Programs, as he welcomes you back and discusses graduate degree requirements.

  • April 18, 2024
    Please join us in welcoming Afi Harrington from the Food and Drug Administration. She will be discussing leveraging analytics in government.

  • March 28, 2024
    Please join us in welcoming Suvrajeet Sen, a professor from the University of Southern California. He will discuss a current topic in industrial and systems engineering.

  • March 19, 2024
    Please join us in welcoming Mariel Lavieri, University of Michigan. She will discuss personalizing treatment decisions for patients with chronic conditions.

  • March 7, 2024
    Please join us in welcoming Boyi Hu, assistant professor from the University of Florida. He will discuss the performance challenges robots face in indoor pollination.

  • March 5, 2024
    Please join us in welcoming Seth Guikema, professor from the University of Michigan. He will be discussing communities’ resilience to natural hazards.

  • February 29, 2024
    Please join us in welcoming Shawn Sheng, a research scientist from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He will be discussing the challenges and opportunities facing the global wind industry.

  • February 27, 2024
    Please join us in welcoming back ISE alum Manish Tripathy, Senior Lecturer from NJIT. He will discuss a current topic in industrial and systems engineering.

  • February 22, 2024
    Please join us in welcoming Erin Baker, professor from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst. She will be discussing equity integration in power systems.

  • February 15, 2024
    Please join us in welcoming Ozlem Ergun, a professor from Northeastern University. She will discuss a current topic in industrial and systems engineering.

  • February 6, 2024
    Please join us in welcoming Sila Cetinkaya, a professor from Southern Methodist University. She will discuss stochastic clearing in the outbound supply chain.

  • February 1, 2024
    Please join us in welcoming back Li Yang, ISE alum and associate professor from the University of Louisville. He will discuss a current topic in industrial and systems engineering.

2023

  • November 16, 2023
    Please join us in welcoming George Tan Associate Professor, Texas Tech University, Dept. of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering.

  • November 14, 2023
    Please join us in welcoming Jeff Shamma, Professor and Head, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering.

  • November 9, 2023
    Please join us in welcoming Guha Manogharan, Associate Professor, Penn State University, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.

  • November 7, 2023
    Please join us in welcoming Qi Luo, an assistant professor from Clemson University, as he discusses data-driven decision-making.

  • November 2, 2023
    Please join us in welcoming Jennifer Pazour, Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

  • October 31, 2023
    Please join us in welcoming Bruce Rogers, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Duke University.

  • October 24, 2023
    Please join us in welcoming Shannon Harris, Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Business.

  • October 12, 2023
    Please join us in welcoming Qiang Huang, Professor, University of Southern California, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.

  • October 5, 2023
    Please join us in welcoming Jay Lee, Clark Distinguished Chair Professor and Director of the Industrial AI Center in the Mechanical Engineering Dept of the Univ. of Maryland, College Park.

  • October 3, 2023
    Please join us in welcoming Brandon McConnell, research assistant professor and director of the MEM graduate program, NC State University, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

  • April 21, 2023
    Please join us in welcoming Shiyu Zhou, the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

  • April 14, 2023
    Please join us in welcoming Wei Xie, assistant professor at Northeastern University, as she discusses complex end-to-end learning in cyber-physical systems.

  • April 7, 2023
    Please join us in welcoming Merve Bodur, assistant professor at the University of Toronto, as she discusses Markov Chain-based policies.

  • March 31, 2023
    Please join us in welcoming Amit Bandyopadhyay, the Boeing Distinguished Professor from Washington State University.

  • March 24, 2023
    Please join us in welcoming Abby Wooldridge, assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  • March 3, 2023
    Please join us in welcoming Davis Macgregor, a senior manufacturing scientist at Fast Radius, as he discusses machine learning algorithms.

  • February 24, 2023
    Please welcome Hamsa Bastani, Assistant Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

2022

  • December 2, 2022
    Please join us in welcoming Yu Ding, a Professor at Texas A&M University.

  • November 18, 2022
    Please join us in welcoming Kianté Brantley, a Post-Doc researching at Cornell University.

  • November 11, 2022
    Please join us in welcoming Lauren Davis, a Professor at the North Carolina A&T State University. She will be speaking about improving equity and access in hunger relief supply chains.

  • November 4, 2022
    Please join us in welcoming Nosakhare Edoimioya, a Ph.D. Student at the University of Michigan.

  • October 28, 2022
    Please join us in welcoming Dalia Echeverri, Gendell Family Associate Professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.

  • October 21, 2022
    Please join us in welcoming Yao Xie, Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Early Career Professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. She will talk about her research on Point process models for discrete event data.

  • October 7, 2022
    Please welcome Russell Barton from Penn State University. He will discuss some surprisingly simple metamodels for forecasting cycle-time quantiles.

  • September 23, 2022
    Join us in welcoming ISE’s own Leila Hajibabai as she discusses transportation science and logistical solutions for smart city challenges.

2021

  • November 5, 2021
    Welcome Dr. Franck Diaz-Garelli as he discusses unintended consequences of breaking the first law of informatics and how industrial engineering can help.

  • October 15, 2021
    Please welcome Valerie Thomas as she discusses how to reinvent industrial engineering to meet the challenge of climate change.

  • September 24, 2021
    Please welcome ISE’s own Rohan Shirwaiker as he shares how he has been manufacturing “living” biomedical products like tissues and organs.

  • September 17, 2021
    Please welcome ISE’s own Xu Xu, assistant professor, as he shares how ubiquitous Sensing is being used to improve worker safety.

  • September 3, 2021
    Come join ISE’s faculty, staff and fellow grad students at our New Graduate Student Orientation. We will help you with the various policies and procedures.

  • August 27, 2021
    Please welcome Kristy Borda, research librarian, from the NC State Libraries as she shares how to best use the resources of the NC State Libraries.

  • January 22, 2021
    Come join ISE’s faculty, staff and fellow grad students at our New Graduate Student Orientation. We will help you with the various policies and procedures.

2020

  • October 23, 2020
    Eileen Taylor is a professor at NC State’s Poole College of Management. She teaches in the MBA and MAC programs and courses at Duke University.

  • August 28, 2020
    Please welcome Shelby Hallman, COE Lead Librarian from NC State Libraries, as she discusses NC State’s library services and introduces resources useful for conducting in-depth research.

  • August 14, 2020
    Come join ISE’s faculty, staff and fellow grad students at our New Graduate Student Orientation. We will help you with the various policies and procedures.

  • February 28, 2020
    Come join the ISE Department in welcoming one of our alumni, Tiffany Chin Moore, as she discusses how to drive change through continuous improvement

  • January 17, 2020
    Come join ISE’s faculty and students as they welcome their own, Brandon McConnell, to discuss how his research reduces the complex issues that arise when the military moves supplies around the world.

2019

  • November 22, 2019
    Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Susan Hunter, associate professor from Purdue, as she discusses bi-objective simulation optimization on integer lattices.

  • November 15, 2019
    Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Remi Goulet from Saint-Gobain Research North America as he discusses the life of an R&D Engineer.

  • November 8, 2019
    Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Leon McGinnis, professor emeritus, from Georgia Tech and ISE advisory board members as he discusses the case for analysis agnostic system models.

  • November 1, 2019
    Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Linkan Bian from Mississippi State University, who will discuss a theoretical framework and partial solutions for the Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing (LBAM) process.

  • October 25, 2019
    Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Xu Sun from the University of Florida, who will discuss the use of a battery-powered server in a dynamic scheduling problem for a multiclass, single-server queue.

  • October 18, 2019
    Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Shelby Hallman from the NC State Libraries as she discusses how to take advantage of the NC State Library resources for your research.

  • October 4, 2019
    Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Ola Harrysson and Russell King as they discuss their sabbatical experiences.

  • September 27, 2019
    Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome one of their own, Jingyan Dong, who will discuss printing processes for viable micro/nanomanufacturing.

  • September 20, 2019
    Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Katie Homar from the Graduate School as she discusses the Graduate School Professional Development Programs and how to write concise sentences.

  • September 13, 2019
    Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Barry Nelson from Northwestern University as he discusses how Parallel Adaptive Survivor Selection (PASS) jettisons the standard framework of ranking & selection to produce a new class of algorithms.

  • August 30, 2019
    Come join ISE’s faculty, staff and fellow graduate students at our New Graduate Student Orientation. We will help you learn all the various policies and procedures, as well as recent changes from the NC State Graduate School.

  • August 23, 2019
    The first seminar of the semester will focus on various policies and procedures from the ISE Department and the NC State Graduate School.

  • April 19, 2019
    Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Ruxian Wang from Johns Hopkins University, as he discusses current topics in the industrial engineering field.

  • April 12, 2019
    Please welcome Nan Kong from Purdue University. His topic of discussion is how to optimize regional trauma centers.

  • April 5, 2019
    Please welcome Brian Paul from Oregon State University. His topic is the additive manufacturing of functional alloys.

  • March 29, 2019
    Please welcome Alaa Elwany from the University of Texas A&M. His topic of discussion is producing 3D-printed parts that have location-specific properties.

  • March 22, 2019
    Please welcome Xuili Chao from the University of Michigan. His topic is how to address the challenges of controlling perishable inventories.

  • March 8, 2019
    Please welcome Matthew Plumlee from Northwestern University. His topic of discussion is inexact computer model calibration: Concerns, controversy, credibility, and confidence.

  • March 1, 2019
    Please welcome Radhika Kulkarni from the SAS Institute, who will discuss machine learning, artificial intelligence, and optimization.

  • February 22, 2019
    Please welcome Namhun Kim from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, who will discuss the use of Design for Additive Manufacturing in the automotive industry.

  • February 15, 2019
    Please welcome Min Chi to the ISE Department. Chi comes from NC State’s Computer Science Department. She will discuss how to use intelligent learning technologies for individualizing a student’s learning experience.

  • February 8, 2019
    Please join not one, but two ISE Ph.D. students, Lena Abu-El-Haija and Parth Chansoria. Lena will discuss her research on her pancreatic cancer prioritization and screening evaluation tool. Parth will discuss that he is developing a new ultrasound-assisted 3D bioprinting process to fabricate anisotropic tissues.

  • January 18, 2019
    Please welcome Katie Homar to the ISE Department. Homar is the new Technical and Academic Writing Specialist at NC State’s Graduate School. She will discuss how to use basic visual design principles to organize reports (and other documents) for a variety of audiences.

  • January 11, 2019
    Welcome, New ISE Graduate Students!! Come join ISE’s faculty, staff and fellow graduate students at our New Graduate Student Orientation.

2018

  • November 30, 2018
    Please welcome Simon Hsiang to the ISE Department. Hsiang serves as the head of the Systems Engineering & Engineering Management Department at the University of North Carolina – Charlotte.

  • November 16, 2018
    Please welcome Young-Jun Son to the ISE Department. Son serves as the department head of the Systems and Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Arizona.

  • November 9, 2018
    Please welcome Lars Monch to the ISE Department. Monch, a professor at the University of Hagen, will discuss decomposition heuristics for reducing costs and tardiness in mixed-model aircraft manufacturing flow lines.

  • November 2, 2018
    Please welcome Alex Carroll to the ISE Department. Carroll serves as the Research Librarian for Engineering and Biotechnology at the NC State Libraries.

  • October 26, 2018
    Please welcome Shuai Huang to the ISE Department. Huang serves as an assistant professor at the University of Washington and will discuss ways he is using data analytics to transform U.S. healthcare from reactive to preventive.

  • October 12, 2018
    Please welcome Jay Wilkins to the ISE Department. Wilkins serves as the program manager at the Army Research Office and will share how he models complex systems.

  • September 28, 2018
    Please welcome James Tompkins, chairman and CEO of Tompkins International and MonarchFx, to the ISE Department. Tompkins will discuss how he has taken the New Era of Retail to another level by explaining the digital imperative that all organizations must understand in order to succeed.

  • September 21, 2018
    Please welcome Stefan Haeussler to the ISE Department. Haeussler serves as an assistant professor at the University of Innsbruck.

  • September 18, 2018
    Please welcome The ISE Department’s own Osman Ozaltin, who will present his research on using mathematical programming and statistical learning to improve healthcare.

  • September 7, 2018
    Please welcome Ilana Bookner to the ISE Department. Bookner is a Summer Intern in the Operations Research Technology (SPORT) programat the National Security Agency (NSA). She will discuss the advantages of the NSA’s SPORT program.

  • August 24, 2018
    Welcome, new ISE Graduate Students!! Come join ISE’s faculty, staff and fellow graduate students at our New Graduate Student Orientation

  • April 13, 2018
    Please welcome Hongwei Hsiao to the ISE Department. Hsiao serves as Chief of the Protective Technology Branch at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). He will discuss the role robotics plays in the research and application of occupational safety and health.

  • March 23, 2018
    Please join ISE grad students Atin Angrish and Tyler Rose as they talk blockchain and virtual reality. Angrish will discuss how he is using blockchain technology to allow manufacturing machines to share information safely. Rose will discuss how he is using virtual reality to improve occupational training.

  • March 15, 2018
    Please welcome Steven Schmid to the ISE Department. Schmid serves as the Manufacturing Machines and Equipment (MME) Program Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF). He will discuss research opportunities in advanced manufacturing.

  • March 2, 2018
    Please welcome Golbarg Tutunchi back to the ISE Department. Tutunchi serves as a Senior Operations Research Specialist at SAS. She will discuss how she is using bi-criteria optimization to solve engineering problems.

  • February 16, 2018
    Please welcome Karen Hicklin back to the ISE Department. Hicklin serves as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She will discuss the risks that are associated with cesarean deliveries.

  • February 9, 2018
    Please welcome Clark Dickerson to the ISE Department. Dickerson serves as a Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada). He will discuss several unique fundamental characteristics of shoulder mechanics and how developing models and representations of this body region can inform a wide range of design, clinical, ergonomic, and biological investigations and applications.

  • January 12, 2018
    Come join ISE’s faculty, staff and fellow graduate students at our New Graduate Student Orientation (434 Daniels Hall). We will help you learn all the various policies and procedures, as well as recent changes from the NC State Graduate School.

2017

  • November 17, 2017
    Please welcome Albert Shih from the University of Michigan, who will discuss the cyber design and additive manufacturing of custom assistive devices.

  • November 10, 2017
    Please welcome ISE’s own Chris Rock as he discusses the past, present, and future of CAMAL’s additive manufacturing research, including material development and biomedical design and fabrication.

  • October 27, 2017
    Please welcome ISE’s own CS Nam as he discusses how the human brain can directly communicate with the outside world through a brain-computer interface (BCI), not only for healthy people but also for patients who cannot use their muscles.

  • October 20, 2017
    Please welcome Ebru Bish to the ISE Department. Ward is an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech. She will discuss the challenges and opportunities that arise when performing public health screenings and how modeling can help to optimize resource allocation decisions.

  • October 13, 2017
    The ISE Department welcomes our own Binil Starly. Starly is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Functional Tissue Engineering Group at the Comparative Medicine Institute. He will discuss the three B’s of regenerative medicine manufacturing: bioreactors, biofabrication, and blockchain.

  • September 29, 2017
    Please welcome Ph.D. students Sanaz Goldani (OR) and Wenjuan Zhang (ISE) as they present their research. Goldani will share how her research will improve the way we handle disaster relief in the future. Zhang will discuss how her research is enhancing the transparency of automated systems, thereby simplifying the understanding of complex systems.

  • September 22, 2017

  • September 15, 2017
    Please welcome Amy R. Ward to the ISE Department. Ward is a Professor of Data Sciences and Operations at the University of Southern California. She will discuss the problem that many classic scheduling models do not incorporate customer impatience and how this assumption can lead to poor scheduling decisions.

  • August 18, 2017
    Come join ISE’s faculty, staff and fellow graduate students at our New Graduate Student Orientation (434 Daniels Hall). We will help you learn all the various policies and procedures, as well as recent changes from the NC State Graduate School.

  • April 28, 2017
    Please welcome Georgia-Ann Klutke to the ISE Department. Klutke is the Program Director for the Operations Engineering program at the National Science Foundation (NSF). She will discuss opportunities relevant to the Industrial and Operations Engineering communities.

  • February 24, 2017
    Please welcome Timothy Simpson to the ISE Department. Simpson is the Paul Morrow Professor of Engineering Design and Manufacturing at Penn State University. He will discuss the challenges and research opportunities in advanced manufacturing.

  • February 17, 2017
    Come join Maryam Zahabi as she shares how her research is improving in-car computer systems to make our roads safer. Joining Maryam is Wenjuan Zhang, who explains how she is assessing the impact that physical exertion has on our ability to perform mental tasks.

  • February 10, 2017
    Please welcome Halit Uster to the ISE Department. Uster is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Management, Information, and Systems at Southern Methodist University. He will discuss his approach to improving the driver shortage problem in the trucking industry.

  • February 3, 2017
    Please welcome Emmett Lodree to the ISE Department. Lodree is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the University of Alabama. He will discuss the effectiveness of various donation-collection strategies for transporting relief supplies from local warehouses to the hands of disaster victims.

  • January 27, 2017
    Please welcome Martin Wortman to the ISE Department. Wortman is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University. He will discuss the three operations-engineering principles that motivated the need for government regulation of safety-critical protective systems.

  • January 20, 2017
    Come join Ling Zhang as he shares how his research is revolutionizing how one-way car-sharing networks operate. Joining Ling is Lokesh Narayanan, who explains how he is assessing 3D biofabrication processes.

  • January 13, 2017
    Come join ISE’s faculty, staff and fellow graduate students at our New Graduate Student Orientation (434 Daniels Hall). We will help you learn all the various policies and procedures, as well as recent changes from the NC State Graduate School.

2016

  • October 21, 2016
    Please welcome Mary “Missy” Cummings to the ISE Department. Cummings is a professor from the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke.

  • October 14, 2016
    Please welcome Edwin Romeijn to the ISE Department. Romeijn is a professor from the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.

  • September 30, 2016
    Come join Katie Basinger as she shares how her research is revolutionizing the way burn patients are being treated. Joining Katie is Sha Luo, who explains how she is streamlining inventory systems.

  • September 16, 2016
    Join ISE in welcoming NC State Engineering Librarian Bertha Chang as she shares the resources and services available to ISE graduate students. Resources that will be demonstrated include engineering literature databases, patent resources and citation management software.

  • September 2, 2016
    Join ISE professor Michael Kay as he covers the basics of getting started with your research and what is needed to complete a dissertation or thesis.

  • August 19, 2016
    Welcome, new ISE Graduate Students!! Come join ISE’s faculty, staff, the GSA Student Group and fellow graduate students at our New Graduate Student Orientation.

  • April 8, 2016
    Don’t miss Thayer Morrill from NC State’s Economics Department. Morrill shares the inner workings of assigning students to schools.

  • April 1, 2016
    Don’t miss Amin Khademi from Clemson University. He will discuss his development of a flexible optimization framework for real-time ambulance management

  • March 4, 2016
    Don’t miss Knut Haase from Hamburg University.

  • February 26, 2016
    Join ISE as we welcome Jonathan Bard from the University of Texas at Austin. Bard discusses how his team improved the scheduling systems for medical residents at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.

  • February 12, 2016
    Don’t miss Joy Olabisi from the Rochester Institute of Technology as she shares how “teams of teams” are driving innovation.

  • February 5, 2016
    Don’t miss Dr. Jens Brunner from the University of Augsburg as he shares the value of the flexibility of shift scheduling at hospitals.

  • January 29, 2016
    Don’t miss Mark Spearman from Physics Factory as he shares the “Laws” of how production-inventory systems behave

The Importance of Seminars

A large room full of students attending seminars with the speaker on stage.

Guest speakers from industry and other universities give you valuable learning opportunities outside the classroom. In addition, these events introduce new technologies, research and trends in industrial and systems engineering. As a result, you gain a better understanding of real-world challenges and modern engineering solutions.

Industry professionals connect classroom concepts to practical applications. Therefore, you learn how companies improve systems, reduce costs and manage complex operations. These discussions also help you understand workforce expectations and career opportunities in different industries. You can also hear firsthand stories about leadership, teamwork and innovation from experienced professionals.

Faculty members from other institutions bring unique research experiences and perspectives to campus. Moreover, they share new ideas that encourage collaboration and critical thinking. By learning from experts with different backgrounds, you strengthen your communication skills and broaden your understanding of the field.

These events also help you build professional relationships before graduation. In turn, these connections can support internships, research opportunities and future careers. You may even discover career paths or industries you had not previously considered. Networking with professionals also helps you develop confidence when discussing technical topics and career goals.

Most importantly, attending a seminar prepares you to become an adaptable and innovative engineer. Because industries continue to change, you must understand emerging technologies and evolving workplace expectations. Through these experiences, you stay informed, engaged and ready to succeed in a rapidly changing profession. In addition, you gain exposure to different industries, career paths and problem-solving methods. These experiences help you think creatively, adapt quickly and prepare for long-term professional success. You also learn how professionals communicate ideas, manage projects and lead teams in fast-changing and technology-driven work environments.