Argonne National Laboratory
Congratulations to Senior Nuclear Engineer and Technical Director Dr. Keith S. Bradley, the winner of Argonne’s inaugural Outstanding Staff Mentor Award!
Read more about Keith’s mentoring philosophy and approach here and be sure to congratulate him in the Comments section below.
Men and non-SWE members are encouraged to attend!
Argonne National Laboratory is the proud host of the 2014 Society of Women Engineers (SWE) – Chicago Regional Section (CRS) Professional Development Conference on April 12, 2014. Engineering leaders and innovators will come together for a full day of professional development at Argonne’s campus in Lemont, Illinois, to advance the conference theme of ”Enabling Exchange to Drive Innovation.”
The 2014 SWE-CRS Professional Development Conference will convene thought leaders from industry, academia, and Argonne National Laboratory. Attendees will develop relationships while cultivating expertise on driving innovation and building strategic relationships.
Professionals, postdocs, and graduate students will enjoy a choice of sessions from two conference tracks: Innovation & Patents and Interpersonal Strategy. College students will participate in a robust program concentrated on self-promotion and career strategy.
Argonne Speakers include:
SWE speakers include:
Registration is $30 for professionals and $20 for students and postdoctoral scholars. Light breakfast and lunch are included in registration costs. Registration closes at 11:59pm CST on Sunday, April 6, 2014. Reserve your spot today.
Program Outline – Please check back frequently for program updates.
| TIME | SESSION TYPE | SESSION NAME | ROOM |
| 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Registration & Light Breakfast | Lobby | |
| 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Opening Remarks & Keynote | Making Titanic Career Choices | Auditorium |
| 10:45 AM – 11:30 AM | Symposia Session 1 | Commercializing InnovationGoing up? Your Elevator Speech Can Help You Rise | A1100E1200 |
| 11:45 AM– 12:30 PM | Symposia Session 2 | Demonstrating Technical Leadership with Patents | A1100 |
| 12:35 PM –2:00 PM | Lunch with Diversity Officer Panel Discussion | The evolving engineering landscape | Lower Level Gallery |
| 2:15 PM –3:00 PM | Symposia Session 3 | The Power of a Great ImageEngineer Your Career | E1100A1100 |
| 3:15 PM –3:30 PM | Closing remarks | Auditorium | |
| 3:30 PM –4:15 PM | Informal Tours and Networking | Auditorium |
About SWE
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Chicago Regional Section (CRS) is a network of nearly 400 female engineers and engineering students from across Chicagoland, including Rockford and portions of Northwest Indiana.
About Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory is a highly collaborative environment in which over 350 women researchers, technicians, and postdoctoral scholars pursue innovation in the national interest.
As a world-class laboratory that is committed to focused, mission-driven research, we must recognize the influential role that mentoring plays in the development of our workforce and success of our organization.
The Outstanding Staff Mentor Award will recognize the efforts of an individual [full- or part-time] employee from the operations or programmatic areas who has demonstrated commitment to outstanding mentorship. This individual is a dedicated advocate for advancing and mentoring colleagues without regard to the mentee’s position or career tenure. [Postdocs are ineligible as nominators for this award.]
For more information, please see Inside Argonne.
Each of us has a responsibility to provide guidance and encouragement to the next generation of our workforce. This award gives us an opportunity to recognize mentoring as integral to maintaining and advancing Argonne’s programmatic and operational excellence.
In honor of National Mentoring Month, Argonne is partnering with the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) to host a mentoring event on Saturday, January 25, 2014.
The event will take place from 9:30am-1pm on UChicago’s campus and will feature:
Email [email protected] for more information and to RSVP for this FREE event!
As a world-class laboratory that is committed to excellence and innovation, strong mentoring relationships are critical to provide all employees with the organizational support they need to achieve their full potential. To reinforce the high value the laboratory places on strong mentoring relationships, the laboratory will now offer an Outstanding Staff Mentor Award. This honor will recognize the efforts of an individual employee who has demonstrated commitment to outstanding mentorship and who has been a dedicated advocate for advancing and mentoring his or her colleagues.
Each of us has a responsibility to provide guidance and encouragement to the next generation of mission support staff, scientists, engineers and researchers. This award extends the Outstanding Postdoctoral Supervisor and Outstanding Postdoctoral Mentor award series conceived by the Postdoctoral Society of Argonne and gives us an opportunity to recognize mentoring as an important part of leadership for all employees.
All employees at Argonne are invited to nominate a mentor for the award. Each employee may nominate only one person and will have the option of being anonymous. Self-nominations are prohibited.
The formal call for nominations will be announced in January 2014. During the holiday break, consider nominating a colleague who has most influenced your career here at Argonne.
Please direct preliminary inquiries to Gender Diversity Specialist Erin L. Thomas ([email protected]; ext. 2-3346).
The Mentoring at Argonne LinkedIn group is your one-stop portal for connecting with Argonne mentors, mentees and advocates. Think of this as a directory of biographical profiles and a touchpoint for the latest mentoring-related news and commentaries in the popular press.
Join us while you Network. Exchange. Flourish.
Fifteen Argonne employees, nominated by their associate laboratory directors and selected by the laboratory director, are participating in this year’s Strategic Laboratory Leadership Program (SLLP).
Candidates in the program are individuals who show leadership abilities, exceptional work ethic, collaborative thinking skills, rigorous scholarship aptitude and innovative and creative problem solving capabilities.
This program was inaugurated in 2007; to date, 90 candidates from Argonne have been selected to participate. The program provides students with the conceptual tools to manage complex projects in a practical, real-world scenario.
Participants in the 2013 cohort are:
Other participants in the program come from Fermilab, Jefferson Lab and The University of Chicago. The program consists of three multiday sessions, held in May, September and November. Throughout the program, cross-laboratory teams work on a joint project and each team presents its findings to culminate the program.
UChicago Argonne, LLC, sponsors the Strategic Laboratory Leadership Program, a non-degree executive leadership program, developed by the premier executive business management school, the Chicago Booth School of Business, for the programmatic and operations staff of Argonne and Fermilab.
The University of Chicago and UChicago Argonne, LLC have provided funding for this program since 2007.