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Tuesday, May 21 • 1:00pm - 1:45pm
Project Management Presentation - UT

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The Project Management Presentation will discuss:
- Year 2 Competition - Week 1 (Vehicle Events) Debrief
- Year 3 Team-Defined Vehicle Development Timeline and Milestones
- Roles and Responsibilities Strategy and Implementation
- Leadership Succession Strategy
- Professional Development and Personal Contributions

Judges
avatar for Chris Meagher

Chris Meagher

Retired from GM, General Motors
Chris Meagher is a retired General Motors executive with 42 years of experience in the propulsion system area of engineering. After joining GM in 1979, he held positions as an engine development engineer, design release engineer, and global chief engineer & program manager of 4-cylinder... Read More →
avatar for Connell D'Souza

Connell D'Souza

Manager of Student Programs, MathWorks
Connell D’Souza has worked at MathWorks since 2016 and is a Manager on the Student Programs Team. In this role he manages a team of engineers that help students adopt MATLAB, Simulink and Model-Based Design practices for Aerospace, Data Science, Automotive, Robotics and Autonomous... Read More →
avatar for Don McGady

Don McGady

Enterprise Projects Program Manager, Argonne National Laboratory
Don McGady is the Program Manager for Enterprise Project at Argonne National Laboratory. This team manages projects in four strategic portfolios- Operational Excellence, Talent, Enterprise Systems Advancement, and Laboratory Research Initiatives. Don has been with Argonne since 2020... Read More →
avatar for Justina Banks

Justina Banks

Program and Project Manager, NXP
avatar for Miles McDonald

Miles McDonald

Program Manager - Global Powertrain, PACCAR
Originally from Chattanooga, TN, Miles is currently a Program Manager for the Global Powertrain division of PACCAR. He currently serves EcoCAR as a speaker and judge for the project management swimlane of the competition. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering... Read More →
avatar for Ralph Blanchard

Ralph Blanchard

Sr. Technical Specialist, Judd Wire, Inc.
Ralph attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, graduating in 1981 with a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering. He started his career at Smith & Wesson, where he progressed from Manufacturing Engineering to Product Design. He earned an MBA from Western New England College... Read More →
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Sim Gill

Technical Program Manager, General Motors
Sim Gill is a Technical Program Manager for the Software Defined Vehicle Organization. In this role, she is responsible for the Global Expansion of Ultifi, GM's end to end Software Platform. She joined GM in 2011 as a Manufacturing Controls Engineer and has since held positions such... Read More →
avatar for Simon Roechner

Simon Roechner

Team Lead Application Engineering, dSPACE
2021 - now: Team Lead Application Engineering at dSPACE Inc., Wixom MI2019 - 2021: HIL Project Manager at dSPACE Inc., Wixom MI2015 - 2019: HIL Application Engineer at dSPACE GmbH, Paderborn, Germany2009 - 2015: Bachelor & Master studies, Electrical Engineering at Ruhr-University... Read More →


Tuesday May 21, 2024 1:00pm - 1:45pm MST
Aztec A

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