From Engineering to MBA Virtual Field Trips

Business is everywhere and a graduate business degree like an MBA, can boost your career, no matter your undergraduate major. Attend these virtual field trips to learn ways that real MBA alumni and current students with engineering degrees unlocked their career potential with an MBA. Join us via Google Hangouts for this FREE field trip.

Attendees will be entered to win a $250 GMAT Exam Gift Voucher to help you pay for your GMAT exam. 

Where: Official GMAT Google Hangout

Webinar Duration: 30 Minutes (20-minute interviews + 10-minute Q&A)

Field Trip 1: Destination MBA > Thursday, February 25 | 1:30pm EST

During this virtual field trip, you will meet Jackie DiMonte and Karin Lilliedahl, current MBA students with engineering backgrounds. They will walk you through their personal journeys from engineering undergrads to MBA candidates.

Meet Jackie DiMonte: current part-time weekend MBA student at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Jackie's undergrad major specialty was General Engineering with a Control Systems concentration. Jackie's dream career is to take on a strategic role in growing technologies companies. Why Business School? "I always knew I wanted to go back to school after undergrad, I just didn’t know quite what I wanted to study. After a few years in consulting, I realized my consulting experience would be best supplemented with the theory taught and the skill developed at business schools."

Meet Karin Lilliedahl: current full-time MBA student at Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business. Karin's undergrad major concentration was Industrial Engineering. Karin's dream career is to own and operate a craft brewery or become COO at Disney.Why Business School? "I’ve known since I was a little girl that I wanted to grow up to be a business leader, and business school was the only logical way to get there." Prior to business school, Karin worked as a Sales Engineer/Account Manager for Siemens Industry.  She sold automation solutions in a variety of industries, but primarily chemical processing, in Western, PA, Ohio and Michigan.

 
You will be registered for the event and drawing, and receive information about the GMAT exam and management education from GMAC, graduate business schools, scholarship-granting organizations, strategic partners and corporate affiliates of GMAC. You can opt out from receiving this at any time. Please visit the GMAC Privacy Center for more information about our privacy policy and your rights and responsibilities. NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THE DRAWING. Please see Official Rules for the Drawing.

Field Trip 2: Destination Post MBA > Friday, February 26 | 1pm EST

During this virtual field trip, you will meet  Allison Smith, Yelani Naranjo, and Damaune Journey, all of whom are MBA alumni with engineering backgrounds. They will walk you through their journey from engineering to post MBA business leaders.

Meet Allison Smith: from the University of Iowa, Tippie School of Management, class of 2015. Allison's undergrad major concentration was Biomedical Engineering. Now she is a Senior Consultant in Healthcare Strategy at Kurt Salmon. Why Business School? "I went to business school for a couple of reasons.  First, I didn’t have the opportunity to take many business classes as an undergrad – they kept us plenty busy in engineering!  I wanted to better understand finance, marketing and strategy. I also wanted to improve my communication and leadership abilities and be able to move into a more managerial position eventually.  Last but certainly not least, I love learning and couldn’t pass up the opportunity offered to me at Iowa."

Meet Yelani Naranjo: from the University of Florida, Hough Graduate School of Business, class of 2015. Yelani's undergrad major concentration was Electrical Engineering. She is a Product Manager at Dell on the Software Marketing team responsible for a Dell developed software application for product registration. Why Business School? "As an Electrical Engineer at Motorola Solutions, I was initially doing the design and testing for the hardware components but my scope began to expand to leading cross-functional teams and doing project management. I loved working in tech and on new product development, but wanted to move from engineering to marketing which is what led me to pursue my MBA. In particular, I wanted to move in to a product management role to solve a gap in understanding the customer and market needs and developing a strategy and product roadmap to translate those marketing needs in to technical engineering requirements."

Meet Damaune Journey: from Harvard Business School, class of 2005. Damaune's undergrad major concentration was Industrial and Operations Engineering. Now he is the Vice President of Security Solutions at ShotSpotter. Why Business School? "I believe business and government are the two external factors that most impact American life, and business school was the best way to gain a better understanding of  business so that I could have an impact on the lives of others.  With the critical thinking and problem solving skills gained through engineering (and the comfort with technology), the missing component for me was how to bring ideas and solutions to market to positively impact the world.  Business school helped to bridge that gap for me and give me credibility to assume more authority in organizations to make decisions that impact others."

 You will be registered for the event and drawing, and receive information about the GMAT exam and management education from GMAC, graduate business schools, scholarship-granting organizations, strategic partners and corporate affiliates of GMAC. You can opt out from receiving this at any time. Please visit the GMAC Privacy Center for more information about our privacy policy and your rights and responsibilities. NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THE DRAWING. Please see Official Rules for the Drawing.