2025 Campus connect SChedule
*This schedule is subject to change.
Thursday, August 14th, 2025
All activities will take place in the Pyle Center
Complete Session Details| 10:00am - 11:00am | Professional Headshots
Pyle 313 | | 11:00am - 12:00pm | Campus Connect Welcome & Brunch Buffet
Alumni Lounge
| | 12:15pm - 12:30pm | Break | | 12:30pm - 1:45pm | Being a Badger 101: What It Means to Be a Graduate Professional Alumni of UW-Madison (Doug Barton)
Alumni Lounge
| 2:00pm - 4:30pm
| UW-Madison Scavenger Hunt | 4:45pm - 5:00pm
| Closing Remarks
Alumni Lounge
| | 5:15pm - 5:45pm | Cash Bar & Social Time
Alumni Lounge
| | 5:45pm | Dinner Buffet
Alumni Lounge
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Friday, August 15th, 2025| 8:00am - 9:30am | Coffee Bar and Continental Breakfast
Lee Lounge | | 9:30am - 9:45am | Campus Connect Welcome
Alumni Lounge | 9:45am - 10:45am
Session 1 | Engineer Your Brand: LinkedIn for Advancement, Visibility, and Value
(Chelsy Cegielski)
Alumni Lounge | 10:45am - 11:00am
| Break | 11:00am - 12:00pm
Session 2 | Wait, What Did You Say? The Secret Skill That Changes Everything
(Heather Smith)
Pyle 332
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Digital Fluency for Today's Engineer: AI, loT, Industry 4.0, and Beyond
(Vignesh Selvaraj)
Pyle 325/326 | | 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Lunch Buffet
Wisconsin Idea Lounge | 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Session 3 | The Engineer in the Wild: Consilience and the Thermodynamics of Everything
(Blake Suhre)
Pyle 332
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The Manager's Dilemma...Managing Someone Else's Change Agenda
(Steve King)
Pyle 325/326 | | 2:00pm - 2:15pm | Break | 2:15pm - 3:15pm
Session 4 | Loans and Job Search - Financial Analysis
(Raj Kamal)
Pyle 332
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Remote and Computer Workstation Ergonomics
(Patrick Scott)
Pyle 325/326
| | 3:15pm - 3:30pm | Break | 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Session 5 | Tools and Tactics to Recover Troubled Projects
(Shawn Belling)
Pyle 332
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Financing Authentic Environmental Sustainability: The Essential Role of Engineering Knowledge
(John Nelson)
Pyle 325/326 | | 4:30pm - 5:15pm | Planning the Future and Closing Remarks
Alumni Lounge |
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