SAE Update - December 2019 - 19

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SAE Mentor Program

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Featured Mentor:
Dean Case

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Dean Case works as a consultant for
Motivo Engineering and Grassroot
Motorsports magazine. Previously,
he did public relations for Nissan,
and prior to that he worked as an
engineer for Mazda (working on the
original Miata program) and Ford. He was the first
American to learan Mazda's CAD system, spending a
month in Japan to do so.
Later, at Ford, he was in on the very early stages of
electric-vehicle development. He served in a similar
capacity later at Nissan before moving into a public
relations role there.
He first got involved with SAE International as a student
at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1981, joining the Baja SAE
team and spearheading a project that resulted in Cal
Poly SLO hosting a Baja SAE competition. For the first
10 years of his SAE membership, Case described
himself as "the poster kid for SAE involvement." Among
other things, he won an SAE WISE internship (Washington
Internship for Students of Engineering).
Later, As a professional engineer, he managed several
Formula SAE West competitions. In recent years, he's
spoken to about 40 student groups, mainly SAE
chapters, and is now a lecturer in the SAE Industrial
Lecture Series.
"The people I have met within SAE have become
personal friends, and have been helpful career-wise,"
he told Update. "It's been very rewarding to reconnect
with a professional whom I had first met as a student,
sometimes decades in the past."
Learn about other mentors in the SAE Mentor Program
and sign up as a mentor/mentee here.

UPDATE

Virtual Mentor Mixer
Save the date for the next
Virtual Mentor Mixer in Member
Connection: January 30-31. The
topic is time management. It's
easy to get overloaded with
different projects and tasks. Is
there such a thing as
multitasking? How do you
prioritize your projects? Watch
the Career Counselor episode
on time management to
discover the answers to these
questions and start thinking
about your own work habits
and workloads.

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