American Association of Engineers of India Origin and Northwestern University hosted Engineering Student's event

Northwestern University's Master of Engineering Management Student Advisory Board (SAB) & American Association of Engineers of India Origin (AAEIO) organized a joint event on "How to Navigate your career in the post digital world."

Prof. Mark Werwath, Northwestern University, along with Mr. Azgar Ali, MEM Student Advisory Board (SAB) President welcomed all guests, AAEIO board members and distinguished panel. They talked about the need for increased collaboration between students, engineering communities and employers.

Mr. Gladson Varghese, Founder AAEIO President, laid out why it is important for young engineers to work together and collaborate with other universities, startups and corporate and get experiential learning. He also asked students to join the mission of bringing all engineers under one umbrella and asked students to join the Engineering Student Chapter. This event was the first event that AAEIO did with a university.

Mr. Amit Kumar, IFS, Consul General of India, Chicago, was the chief guest for the event. He interacted with the students speaking about the need for increased global collaboration and some of the recent innovations that are transforming the world. For example, in India, Aristech is leading a revolution on how food storage can be improved.

Dr. Mohanbir Singh Sawhney, Associate Dean of Digital innovation, Kellogg School of Management was the keynote speaker for the event. Dr. Mohanbir is also an Advisory Board member of the AAEIO. His talk was on "Product Strategy," where he informed the students about the need for product management and its interaction with engineers and how one should think about Product Management, its different career prospects, and how a student can be successful in this field.

Mr. Prof. Vinayak P. Dravid, Material Science and Engineering, talked about how research collaboration has made a difference. He also emphasized the need for more AAEIO kind of partnership.

Mr. Nitin Maheshwari, Vice President, AAEIO, also a Northwestern graduate from Kellogg School of Management and an entrepreneur of Artificial Engineering (AI) based consulting, moderated a highly coveted and diverse panel of distinguished guests on the topic of "How to Navigate your career in post digital world."

Distinguished Panel Guests were: Mr. Amit Kumar, IFS, Consul General of India, Chicago; Dr. Mohanbir Sawhney, Dean Digital, Kellogg School of Management, Prof. Vinayak P. Dravid, Northwestern University, Prof. Mark Werwath, Northwestern University, Mr. Gladson Varghese, AAEIO President, General Electric; Mr. Nag Jaiswal, AAEIO Chair of Membership, Principal Architect, Salesforce & Mr, Rajinder Mago, Ex-Navistar.

Student received advice from the panel on how to navigate career, develop soft skills and develop leadership skills. It was also advised AAEIO is organizing Leadership Excellence Webinar: March 19th, 2022 at 2:00 PM: with Dr. Manu Vohra, Dr. Amit Kumar, Dr. Ajit Pant on developing leadership & soft skills.

Mr. Amit Kumar, CG Chicago India, along with Northwestern professors, AAEIO board members & Students helped cut a ribbon to announce an increased partnership between AAEIO and Northwestern and work together on some of the common objectives.

Mr. Nag Jaiswal, AAEIO Chair of Membership, requested students to become members and be part of AAEIO to drive innovation. To become amember, please write to membership@aaeiousa.org or visit our website www.aaeiousa.org.

AAEIO Treasurer, Mr. Abhishek Jain, Director M&A, Schneider gave the vote of thanks especially to all distinguished guests and Prof. Mark Werwath and Mr. Azgar Ali for their warm welcome. He also thanked several volunteers: Ms. Aparajita Mishra, Ms. Neha Maheshwari, Mr. Vishal Parikh, Mr. Bhanu Swargam and Mr. Anay Maheshwari who lead the event logistics.

AAEIO and Northwestern have laid a very strong foundation and look forward to working together. Let the wildcat spirit continue.