Career Development Workshop (Online)

8 PM -10 PM, April 8 (Friday) and April 9 (Saturday), 2022

Visit the Online Registration Page (https://forms.gle/XhvTc83PxANF17736).

  • Meal support will be provided on each day to the KSEA members who paid membership fee for the term 2021-2022
  • Meal support amount is up to $25 each day (receipts issued on the event days are required) and is reimbursed through Amazon e-gift.
  • Five raffle winners will receive e-gift cards ($20 each).
  • New members or renewed members between Mar 22 to 31 will receive a Yeti tumbler ($40 value) from KSEA.

DAY 1 – April 8, Friday (8:00-10:00 PM EDT)

TimeProgram
8:00-8:10 PMOpening – Dr. B. Brian Park, KSCEE President and KSEA President
8:10-8:30 PM“10 Tips for Writing Outstanding Journal Article”
Main Speaker – Prof. Young Hoon Kwak
Director, International Center for Project Management
George Washington University
8:30-8:40 PMPanel Discussion
8:40-9:00 PMQ&A
9:00-10:00 PMBreakout Room – Small Group Discussion

DAY 2 – April 9, Saturday (8:00-10:00 PM EDT)

TimeProgram
8:00-8:10 PMOpening – Dr. B. Brian Park, KSCEE President and KSEA President
8:10-8:30 PM“Career Development, Leadership, and Strategic Networking
through Professional Organizations”
Main Speaker – Dr. Christy M. Jeon, Ph.D., PE, PTOE, AICP
Senior Engineer/Senior Project Manager at ATKINS
8:30-8:40 PMPanel Discussion
8:40-9:00 PMQ&A
9:00-10:00 PMBreakout Room – Small Group Discussion

Main Speakers

Dr. Young Hoon Kwak is a faculty member in the Department of Decision Sciences and serves as a Director of International Center for Project Management at The George Washington University School of Business (GWSB) in Washington, D.C. He also holds a visiting professor position at Department of Business Informatics and Operations Management at Ghent University in Belgium.
Dr. Kwak is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Management in Engineering, specialty editor for the Case Studies section of the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, and Department Editor for Project Management of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He is the winner of 2021 Richard. R. Torrens Award given to journal editor who makes outstanding contributions to the ASCE publications.
Dr. Kwak’s primary research interests include project and program management; project delivery and project control, engineering and technology management; and management of complex megaprojects. Please visit his google scholar for a complete list of publications.
(https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7Dy1PBkAAAAJ&hl=en).

Dr. Christy M. Jeon is a professional engineer and a certified planner, Christy has contributed to numerous transportation projects encompassing a full range of planning, design, operation, and delivery. Overall experience includes on-call support to GDOT and MPOs, multimodal corridor studies, traffic forecasting, Interchange Justification Report (IJR)/Interchange Modification Report (IMR), traffic operational analyses, congestion management process update, comprehensive transportation plans, freight cluster plans, transit and rail corridor feasibility studies, signing and marking design, signal design, and roadway design. She was the Atlanta Area Quality Champion/Manager at WSP to ensure that all deliverables across different disciplines in Atlanta follow corporate-wide QA/QC procedures and meet quality standards between 2019 and 2021. She also taught a senior transportation engineering course in Kennesaw State University in 2016 and 2019.

As a recognized researcher in the area of sustainability performance measures and evaluation, she published a book and multiple referred journal papers. She is currently serving as the conference chair for the Georgia ITE 2022 Summer Seminar and the vice president of Korean-American Women in Science and Engineering (KWiSE) Headquarter. She is also involved with the ITE Transportation Safety Council Executive Committee activities and a member of the ITE Data Driven Safety Analysis (DDSA) Working Group. She served as the technical committee chair and the conference co-chair of Georgia ITE 2021 Summer Seminar.

Visit the Online Registration Page (https://forms.gle/XhvTc83PxANF17736).