{"id":19385,"date":"2014-10-14T12:50:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T12:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=19385"},"modified":"2014-10-14T12:50:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T12:50:26","slug":"seiminar-where-interpersonal-skills-are-the-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2014\/10\/seiminar-where-interpersonal-skills-are-the-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Where Interpersonal Skills Are The Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/alumni-announcement.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19386 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/alumni-announcement.png\" alt=\"alumni announcement\" width=\"241\" height=\"171\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 241px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 241\/171;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Heidi Douglas<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an old joke, \u201cQuestion:\u00a0 How can you tell an extrovert engineer from an introvert?\u00a0 Answer:\u00a0 They\u2019re staring at your shoes, not their\u2019s.\u201d\u00a0 Okay, okay so that\u2019s not politically correct, apologies.\u00a0 But seriously, we cordially invite you to participate in a very popular seminar\u00a0and reception aimed at improving our future engineers\u2019 professional, interpersonal\u00a0and social skills that we\u2019ve branded \u201cReal Engineers Shake Hands\u201d on <strong>Thursday, November 6 at Storrs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The format is a 45-minute\u00a0networking presentation beginning at 5 p.m., followed by a reception at 6 p.m., where our students will interact with 20 to 30 seasoned alumni, business professionals and friends of the School.\u00a0 You\u2019re more than welcome to join us for the seminar, but we really need your support for the networking practice from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m..\u00a0 Hors d\u2019oeuvres and beverages will be served as we set the venue for our undergraduate\u00a0and graduate engineering students to introduce themselves and engage you in conversation.\u00a0 As an added incentive,\u00a0students who\u00a0participate\u00a0are eligible\u00a0to win an iPad Mini in the door prize drawing.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and to <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/UConnRESH\">RSVP<\/a>, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/UConnRESH\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/UConnRESH<\/a> today!\u00a0 Thank you for supporting our students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We cordially invite you to participate in a very popular seminar and reception aimed at improving our future engineers\u2019 professional, interpersonal and social skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[40],"class_list":["post-19385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 08:35:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19385"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=19385"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}