{"id":1140,"date":"2018-10-10T17:48:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T17:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/meercat\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2018-10-10T17:50:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T17:50:11","slug":"pme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/meercat\/blog\/2018\/10\/10\/pme\/","title":{"rendered":"PME paves the way for a new standard of professional preparedness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on student, alumni, and employer feedback, the Purdue School of Mechanical Engineering is now offering a unique opportunity for students to hone and develop professional skills. Inspired by and in collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/oap\/ldcp\/Pages\/Overview.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">College of Agriculture certificate program<\/a>, MEERCat is piloting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/meercat\/ldp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leadership Development Program (LDP)<\/a> to improve students\u2019 leadership and professional skills and prepare them for the workforce. \u201cWe are thrilled to introduce this new opportunity for students in Mechanical Engineering,\u201d says MEERCat Project Coordinator Ruth Rothstein. \u201cWe know the LDP focus on leadership and experiential learning will be an excellent complement to the outstanding technical education PME offers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As another initiative of MEERCat\u2019s REvolutionizing computer science and Engineering Departments (RED) NSF grant, the LDP is an opportunity for students to improve communication, leadership, and entrepreneurial skills. LDP participants collaborate with a panel of engineering faculty and staff to select the skills they\u2019d like to include in their customized portfolios, and develop hands-on strategies to cultivate them. Rothstein and the MEERCat team hope the LDP will position PME as a front-runner in developing the technical leaders of tomorrow, and will justify expansion into other Schools in the CoE and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about this great opportunity at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/meercat\/ldp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/meercat\/ldp\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on student, alumni, and employer feedback, the Purdue School of Mechanical Engineering is now offering a unique opportunity for students to hone and develop professional skills. Inspired by and in collaboration with the College of Agriculture certificate program, MEERCat is piloting a Leadership Development Program (LDP) to improve students\u2019 leadership and professional skills and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meercat","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/meercat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/meercat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/meercat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/meercat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/meercat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/meercat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/meercat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/meercat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/meercat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/meercat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/meercat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}