Pace conference report: Early involvement in professional issues will net you positive results

Are you ready for the professional world? Have you wondered what it is like to be a practicing engineer? If you had an all expenses paid trip to Arizona to spend four days with 200 professional engineers, do you think you would get some answers? I know I did. As the IEEE Chairman of the George Washington University Student Branch in Washington, DC, I went with six other student branch chairmen from the Washington area to the 1986 National PACE (Professional Activities Committee for Engineers) Conference. We flew to sunny Phoenix for the Labor Day weekend conference, joining approximately 210 other attendees.