BioInspired Project Management Series: The Nuts and Bolts of Project Management

The BioInspired Graduate & Postdoctoral Professional Development Program is excited to announce our next workshop series on Project Management, a valuable set of skills for scientists and engineers in the lab or any professional setting. Scientists and engineers routinely use aspects of project management without even realizing it, but these skillsets can be honed and used intentionally to enhance the successful execution of experiments, writing projects, and fostering collaborative efforts. Besides helping you more thoughtfully navigate your current projects at Syracuse, project management is an important, marketable skillset for future employment.

In this workshop series, industry professionals from Ichor Therapeutics (Lafayette, NY) and Jeremy Steinbacher, Director of Operations BioInspired will present four workshops and a panel discussion to introduce and refine concepts of Project Management. Workshops include:

• The Nuts and Bolts of Project Management:  Monday, February 27 at 3:00-4:30PM, Jeremy Steinbacher, Bioinspired Institute Register now!

• Managers in Technical Projects: Monday, March 20, Aaron Wolfe, CSO Ichor Therapeutics    
• Modern Project Management Methodologies: Monday, April 12, Jeremy Steinbacher, Bioinspired Institute
• Stakeholder Management: Monday, May 1, Kelsey Moody, CEO Ichor Therapeutics
• Panel Discussion May (date TBD)

After attending four of these five events, you will earn the Project Management badge from the Professional Development Program, which can be displayed on your LinkedIn profile.

Workshop #1:  The Nuts and Bolts of Project Management

Summary: In this workshop, we will dive into the basics of project management by examining the formal structures of project management. The Project Management Institute defines five broad stages of a project lifecycle: Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring, and Closure. We will discuss these stages and introduce some of the language professional project managers use to describe them. We will also discuss strategies and share tools for tackling each step as a scientific trainee juggling multiple projects and the expectations of an advisor/mentor.

Presenter Bio: Jeremy Steinbacher, PhD, a materials chemist by training, strives to use his portfolio of skills to facilitate scientific innovation at the BioInspired Institute at Syracuse University. He was formerly a tenured faculty member at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY with an NSF-funded research program in multifunctional drug delivery agents and deep teaching expertise. He helped develop technology transfer policy during a year in the U.S. Department of Defense as an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, and he has additional interests in science communication and public policy. Jeremy has served the chemical and scientific communities through the American Chemical Society and by volunteering at outreach events.

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