| EMTM Sample Weekend |
| Thursday evening |
| 6:00-9:00pm |
Arrival:
Full-time students arrive at the hotel the night before class so they can work together on team projects.
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| Friday |
| 7:00-9:00am |
Breakfast:
The day begins with students having breakfast together at the hotel.
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| 9:00-12:00 noon |
Accounting:
In this week's session, Prof. Stanley Baiman, the Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting and Chairperson of the Accounting Department at the Wharton School, introduces engineering and technical managers to finanacial and managerial accounting, enabling them to understand, critique, and direct project evaluation. |
| 12:00-1:30pm |
Lunch:
At lunch in Houston Hall, students catch up with each other.
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| 1:30-4:30pm |
Marketing Models:
Led by Wharton Professor of Marketing Jehoshua Eliashberg, student teams use computer-based models to solve marketing strategy problems.
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| 6:00-9:00pm |
Half-time (Saturdays only) students arrive.
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| 6:00-7:00pm |
Dinner:
Students meet for an informal dinner.
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| 7:00-9:00pm |
Politics & Networking Workshop:
Students in this optional workshop led by Victor McCrary, PhD, EMTM&’95, learn the networking and professional relationship skills needed to shift gears from engineer to executive.
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| 9:00pm |
Late Evening:
Work on team projects, individual study and socializing round out the day.
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| Saturday |
| 7:00-8:15am |
Breakfast:
Students eat breakfast together.
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| 8:15-11:15am |
Decision Models:
This week's session covers strategic network restructuring decisions and portfolio selection problems — risk/reward tradeoffs.
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| 11:15-1:15pm |
Lunch:
Students pick up lunch, confer classmates and faculty, and attend an ETS seminar (one of 12 offered throughout the year).
Emerging Technologies Seminar:
In this 90-minute lunchtime seminar, Mechanical Engineering Professor Haim Bau explains lab-on-a-chip technology, covering its current, emerging and future applications.
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| 1:15-4:15pm |
Telecommunications:
Penn Engineering Professor Saleem Kassam, Director of Penn's Telecommunications and Networking Program, reviews local area
networks (LANs) — Ethernet and wireless LANS and Layer 2 switching — and their business applications.
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| 4:15pm |
Weekend Ends:
Students return home to family and to work, but continue to collaborate on the phone, via e-mail and through access to
Penn Internet tools.
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