Event Details

• Thursday, March 8, 2012
• 7:00am Breakfast & Networking
• 7:30am Seminar (lasting until 9:00am or 9:30am)
• Room 115 at the UCSD Extension University City Center, 6256 Greenwich Dr., 92122
• Presented by: Liz Young and Patty Hill from Goodrich
• RSVP by Email to: sbaranowski@ucsd.edu

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence 2.0

In today’s fast paced world of competitive workplaces and turbulent economic conditions each of us is searching for effective tools that can help us manage, adapt, and strike out ahead of the pack.

Emotional Intelligence is critical to your success, but knowing what Emotional Intelligence isand knowing how to use it to improve your life are two very different things.

In the book Emotional Intelligence 2.0, authors Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves unveil TalentSmart’s revolutionary program to help people identify and build Emotional Skills into strengths. The book contains proven strategies which are based on a decade long effort to accurately measure and increase one’s Emotional Intelligence.

Building these Emotional Skills into strengths can enable consistent performance in the pursuit of important life objectives both personally and professionally.

Using the Talentsmart’s program, Goodrich Trainers Liz Young and Patty Hill, will:

• Describe what Emotional Intelligence is and why it matters
• Using the Goleman model, introduce the 4 core Emotional Intelligence skills
• Explain the differences between EQ, IQ and personality
• Illustrate the connection between Emotional Intelligence and important outcomes, including job and organizational performance.
• Provide a method for increasing your Emotional Intelligence

UCSD Extension, University City Center

The UCC Location is a NEW location for UCSD Extension!
UC San Diego Extension, University City Center
6256 Greenwich Dr.
San Diego, CA 92122
(858) 534-9999

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Google Maps Link

RSVP is Required

Please RSVP at your earliest convenience, RSVP by Email to: sbaranowski@ucsd.edu

We’d love to see you there!

The EdgeTrends Committee of
The Alumni Board of EPSE-LAMP

Join fellow alumni for the annual Winter Restaurant Week outing for some drinks, outstanding food and great networking.

Date: Sunday, January 29, 2012
Time: Networking 5:30pm, Dinner Seating: 6:00pm
Location: Firefly Grill & Wine Bar in Encinitas
Address: 251 North El Camino Real, Suite B, Encinitas CA 92024
Cost: Fixed $30 menu (per Restaurant Week) (not including drinks, tax & tip)
RSVP: outreach@epselamp.org

Please make sure to RSVP (outreach@epselamp.org) in time so we can reserve a seat for you! Also, if you’d prefer, please inquire in the RSVP about vegetarian options.

Menu

The guest speaker was Dr. Michael Norman who is the Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics, and the Director for the Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics at UCSD.

His presentation highlighted how the digital age we’ve entered generates an avalanche of data and how supercomputers can handle all the data. He then went on to describe the capabilities of the new supercomputer named Gordon that SDSC built from scratch using large amounts of flash memory (the first of its kind), the types of scientific breakthroughs that Gordon will enable, and how businesses can access it.

Overall, it was an engaging lecture and exposed thoughts and ideas not normally encountered in our day jobs!

Kelly Ronk
Photos Courtesy of Gary DeSpain

Presented by Dr. Michael Norman, Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics, and Director for the Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics at UCSD

Lately it seems all we hear about is data – research data, primary data, mashed-up data, raw data, cooked data and more. To address this deluge, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is on the verge of deploying a new kind of supercomputer designed specifically to handle the largest data sets science and engineering can muster. The system, aptly named Gordon, will incorporate a vast amount of flash memory for the first time in history.

Backed by a $20M grant by the National Science Foundation, Gordon is dedicated to solving critical science and societal problems now overwhelmed by the avalanche of data generated by the digital devices of our era. In this lecture, Dr. Michael Norman, Director of SDSC, will describe the characteristics of Gordon, what motivates its design, and the potential scientific breakthroughs it will enable. His presentation will also illustrate how businesses can access Gordon and the know-how behind it related to the community’s needs.

Event Details

• Thursday, November 10, 2011
• 7:30-8am Networking and Continental Breakfast
• 8:00-9am Presentation
• Room 115 at the UCSD Extension; University City Center, 6256 Greenwich Dr., 92122 (Directions/Map below)
• RSVP by Email to: sbaranowski@ucsd.edu

About the Speaker

Dr. Norman is currently the Principal Investigator of the $20M Gordon data-intensive supercomputer project. Dr. Norman received his B.S. from Caltech in 1975, and his Ph. D. from UC Davis in 1980. He joined the faculty at UC San Diego in 2000. This was after holding appointments at the Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories, the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at University of Illinois where he was also Professor of Astronomy. His research focus is the computer simulation of astronomical phenomena using supercomputers.

Dr. Norman is the author of over 250 papers on diverse topics including star formation, cosmic jets and cosmological evolution. His lab pioneered the concept of community application software for astrophysical and cosmological simulations through the widely used ZEUS and ENZO codes. His computer visualizations have appeared in numerous educational TV shows and films, including PBS Nova and The Discovery Channel. He is the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize and the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award. He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.

UCSD Extension, University City Center

The UCC Location is a NEW location for UCSD Extension!
UC San Diego Extension, University City Center
6256 Greenwich Dr.
San Diego, CA 92122
(858) 534-9999

Dowload a Printable Map
Google Maps Link

RSVP is Required

Please RSVP at your earliest convenience, RSVP by Email to: sbaranowski@ucsd.edu

We’d love to see you there!

The EdgeTrends Committee of
The Alumni Board of EPSE-LAMP

Record Turnout

There were many highlights of the evening, but one in particular was the fact that this was the largest graduation ceremony to date with over 230 RSVPs, including over 30+ alumni in attendance to not only congratulate the graduating classes, but to take part in the networking that being an alum has to offer.

The evening began with a Cocktail and Social Hour on the outdoor patio before moving into the  Pavilion Ballroom.  Guests were treated to a selection of 3 different main entrees (also a first for the ceremonies) and a chocolate mousse cake dessert to die for. A custom video slide show was  shown during dessert to highlight the year in pictures.

Gary De Spain then kicked off the formal program of the evening by recognizing that Susie Baranowski is celebrating her 10 year anniversary with EPSE & LAMP.  A few more awards and recognitions were presented and were followed by the keynote speaker:

• Keynote Speaker: Joe Giesemann, GM, Teledyne Receiver & Filter Products
• LAMP (TUE) Class Speaker: Hongwei Xu
• LAMP (WED) Class Speaker: Yuan Qi
• EPSE Class Speaker: Beki Johnston

The formal graduation ceremonies commenced with each graduating member receiving his/her certificate/diploma.  The event was concluded with each class taking their group pictures.  Each member received a DVD copy of the video slide show, class material and a departing gift!

An extra thanks to Susie Baranowski for her extensive work in making the Graduation Ceremony happen.  Event Planning, Music, Emcee, Lighting and A/V services were also provided by Blake Miller of Pro Motion Entertainment who is also a 2003 EPSE graduate.

Pictures

Sample pictures in slideshow below, to see all pictures visit the EPSE-LAMP Flickr page.
Photography services by Innovative Video & Photo (IVP) Studios.

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See the entire set of pictures here!

See The Video Slide Show

Of over 1,000 pictures taken during the year, a few hundred were narrowed down to make Video Slide Show that was shown during the ceremony.  A copy was also given to each graduate.

The slide show was created and produced by Blake, EPSE’03 Graduate and of Pro Motion Entertainment

Best By Far!

Overall, the 2011 Graduation Ceremony was the biggest and best to date, by far.

On 15-16 March, 2011, from 10:00-4:30, the LAMP class conducted a day of team leadership training using the UCSD high ropes challenge course.

Learning Objectives:

Participants gained a greater awareness and appreciation of the importance of trust and communication when working together as a team.

• The teams were able to establish and maintain the four elements of trust: honesty, openness, consistency, and respect.
• The teams were able to establish and maintain the four elements of communication: clear signal, appropriate demeanor, appropriate level of pressure and active and passive lessening.

Participants gained a greater awareness and appreciation of how to engage team leadership procedures with a focus on rapid and effective decision-making.

• The teams were put into situations (leadership challenges) where they had to quickly organize into a viable structure, devise and brief a plan, and within the prescribed time, execute their plan.

Participants gained a greater awareness and appreciation of the concept of fear management while making decisions under pressure.

The day consisted of three low leadership challenges on the ground and one high leadership challenge. In 3 teams of 10-12 participants, the teams negotiated the Values Carry exercise, the Bridge Is Out exercise, and the Sphinx exercise. The Values Carry exercise consisted of the team devising a plan in order to get a loaded stokes litter, (one of the team members is the simulated casualty in the litter) accessed a series of long and elevated log obstacles without any one on the team falling off the logs. Also not dropping the person in the litter. The Bridge Is Out exercise, calls for the team to devise a plan using minimal resources, in order to bridge a fourteen-foot gap between two elevated platforms. They are given two long boards with some long coils of rope and very little time to get all of the team to the far platform. The Sphinx exercise consisted of devising a plan to get one of the team members who is stuck in the middle of an obstacle out without any one touching them. The team is given a long coil of rope and a small rope ring. Using the rest of the team and the materials provided they must get the stuck team member to sit on the rope ring and then be elevated over and out of the obstacle.

The last challenge for the teams was the Tower exercise. The tower is a massive structure standing as tall as a two-story building. It has numerous climbing routes that can be accessed simultaneously. Team members were challenged to climb to the top negotiating numerous obstacles in their way and at the top retrieve a card with a quote that another team member had written. The day finished with each team member offering to the class what was written on the card they had retrieved.

The format they were taught for rapid decision-making.

Observe:

• What is the mission?
• What obstacles are in the way of your completing the mission?
• Based on what you have observed, what is the most realistic picture, “a snapshot,” of the present situation? See what is really there.

Orient:

• Plan use of available time.
• Consider how you’re going to use your resources (people, material, and methods). What do you have to work with?
• Strive to maintain fluidity (speed, agility and flexibility to change).

Decide:

• How are you going to accomplish this task?
• Get the whole team together and involve all members in the development of the course of action. Spend the time it takes to get everyone’s input.
• Quickly, establish a clear and definitive course of action.
• Based on the course of action, assign all members a part to play.
• Get “Buy in” from all members of the team before you execute the plan.

Act:

• Execute the plan quickly with speed and precision.

Those who stayed on into the afternoon were entertained by Chini & Camberos, a Latin jazz guitar duo, who played outside on the patio of the tasting room. Those in attendance were Amy and Ed Van Liew, Shannon and Leif Blensley, Cindy Jarom and Darren Moe, Natasha and Andy Balac, Lizie Hernandez and Armando Garcia, Maria Ambriz and Jose Luis Ramos, Mehul Merchant, Muthu Ramaswamy, and Jan and Gary De Spain.

The EPSE Module 3 teambuilding exercises were held on a frigid day in March at Camp Stevens in Julian.  The high rope courses included the infamous “Depends pole” which overlooked the 256 acres of beautiful mountain wilderness of the camp.  The temperature was 42 degrees (brrr!) which required that everyone wear gloves and hats, a definite disadvantage on the ropes and pole.

On March 7th, the EPSE class of 2011 conducted a day of training using the high rope elements at Camp Stevens in Julian. The three learning objectives for the day were:

1. a sense of group identity
2. rapid and effective decision making
3. fear management.

The day was divided into three challenge areas. The first challenge area consisted of the 60 foot “Jacob’s Ladder”, 4×4 boards separated and suspended by wire cables making the shape of a ladder, and the “High Wire Commitment Bridge”, a set of wires starting at one pole that progressively separated farther and farther apart until they were two poles, 20 feet apart. The teams, 40 feet in the air, had to devise a way to get as far down the wires as possible without letting go of each other.

The second area also consisted of two elements. “The Giant’s Climb” required each team of two to negotiate a set of 4×4 boards crossed in an X and then climb higher via a suspended tire where there were more 4×4’s in the shape of an ascending ladder. The second element, “Balance Beam”, was an 8-inch log suspended 60 feet in the air that each team worked together to traverse without falling off.

The final area was the most challenging of all – “The Leap of Faith”. From the top of a 40-foot pole (affectionately nicknamed the “Depends” pole) with only 8 inches to stand on, each participant had to jump out into the air and grab a trapeze bar 8 feet away. The accompanying challenge to the Leap of Faith was the Broken Bridge. Teams of two worked together to get across a suspension bridge that only had a few boards left in its decking.

1. the forces driving corporate communications change,

2. the new channel choices available to corporations,

3. how to build teams around these new channels

4. how to measure the effectiveness of them.

Ron Ploof is a digital media strategist who specializes in helping executives incorporate new and social media technologies into their businesses. As a fan of the great game of business, Ron speaks to the issues that executives care about: customers, sales, bottom line, and long-term business sustainability. Ron speaks to corporations, universities, industry conferences, and trade associations and he is the author of “Read This First: The Executive’s Guide to New Media.” He shares his thoughts on his blog located at http://ronamok.com.

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