MEM / PriSim Football Tailgate Reminder - RSVP by August 31st!
Enjoy MEM's annual tradition with
students, alumni, and faculty
Kick-off the fall by networking with current MEM students, alumni, and faculty at the annual football tailgate! The family-friendly pre-game tailgate event will be hosted by MEM and PriSim Business War Games. The event will take place on:
Date - Saturday, September 8th 2018
Time - 9:00 to 11:00 am (Game starts at 11:00 am)
There will be coffee, bagels, burgers, drinks, and games! MEM students, faculty, and alumni interested in going to the game (NU vs. Duke) can also request game tickets through the registration link. Wear purple, b
ring your game face, and we hope to see you there!
A special thanks to PriSim Business War Games, including Professors Jeff Lefebvre and Dave Semb, for sponsoring the event!
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MEM: A Perfect, Practical and Progressive Program
Blog article describes recent alum Sheel Saket's MEM experience
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Sheel Saket, Spring 2018 Graduate
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Recent MEM Alum Sheel Saket describes his amazing journey pursuing his MEM degree. Selecting skill-developing courses, working on university projects, and helping a homegrown startup at The Garage incubator all expanded his analytical skills and allowed him to transition into the data science field. He recently secured a full-time opportunity at Datacubes Inc. Sheel wrote a recent blog article describing his experiences:
"I never expected this transition to be very easy, but I'm on my way. This was only possible due to the flexibility of the MEM program and the support from all the faculty members and advisors."
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Internet of Things & Product Management Courses Offered in Fall
Students excited to learn these in-demand skills
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Shahid Ahmed - Second from the right
Faculty for Industrial Internet of Things
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Course Description -
This course is designed as an introductory course to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) for anyone working in the industrial sector or planning to embark in a career around IoT.
At the end of the course, you'll have a strong command of
Industry Dynamics, IoT Technology Architecture and the IoT Ecosystem.
About the Faculty - MEM Alum
Shahid Ahmed
is currently an advisor to several early stage firms focused on the wireless, IoT and digital sectors helping entrepreneurs turn innovative ideas into world class companies. Additionally, he is helping telecom operators transform into digital companies.
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Birju Shah - Center Faculty for Product Management |
Course Description -
The class focuses on understanding customer problems, developing customer research hypotheses, simple MVP tests, market requirements documentation, product requirements, and a product vision deck. All of these are very distinct from typical company formation deliverables as they are all geared to the use cases of problems of your customers and your actual product.
About the faculty -
Birju Shah is currently a Group Product Manager at Uber Technologies LLP. He leads the product group for the sensor inference & vision platform teams at Uber. Prior to Uber, Birju was a product lead at Climate Corporation where he led the Yield Analytics team. Birju is also a board & product advisor to several start-ups, fortune 500, and venture capital firms. His product focus is on machine data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence platforms for consumer & enterprise use cases.
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MEM Student & Alumni Spotlight
Monthly Feature Recognizing Our Amazing Students & Alumni
Hailing from Almaty, Kazakhstan,
Akhan Turmagambetov
is a MEM full-time student and holds a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from Moscow State Technical University followed by 7 years of experience in Oil & Gas conglomerate
Saipem
. He is a thrill seeker and an avid traveler. Another interesting personal trait is that Akhan is secretly a palm reader and understands human psychology.
Akhan has shared some of his MEM experience with us on our blog:
Read more
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Thao-Ta
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Lab Manager, Citgo
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Thao Minh Ta
originally from Hanoi, Vietnam is a '18 alumna of the Northwestern MEM program. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from The University of New Mexico and is currently a Lab Manager at
Citgo Petroleum Corporation
. She loves exploring new places and trying different cuisines with her family. Meson Sabika (for Tapas) and Mitsuwa (Japanese) are a couple from her list. Thao-Ta
has shared
some of
her MEM inspirations with us on our blog: Read more.
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