Page 6 - Kettering Magazine - Spring 2014

CAMPUS NEWS DECA Team Wins State Championship FIRST PLACE • Chelcee Lawrence (senior in Chemical • Thomas Swanson (freshman in Engineering) in Restaurant and Food Business) in Entrepreneurship – Service Management Growing a Small Business) • Chelcee Lawrence (senior in • Michael Woznicki (senior in Business) Chemical Engineering) in Marketing in Retail Management Management • Michael Roethemeyer (senior in SECOND PLACE Electrical Engineering) Hotel and • Britany Parkhurst (senior in Business) Lodging Management ettering University students earned in Retail Management • Jacob Sherwood (junior in Mechanical Kseveral honors at Collegiate DECA’s • Michael Woznicki (senior in Business) Engineering) in Executive Job Interview State Career Development Conference in in Marketing Management • Jacob Sherwood (junior in Mechanical Battle Creek, Mich., February 7-9. Kettering’s THIRD PLACE chapter went head-to-head against students Engineering) Accounting • Anastasia Bubin (junior in Business), from University of Michigan, Michigan State • Thomas Swanson (freshman in Allison Putnam (junior in Business), and University, Michigan Tech, Grand Valley, Business) Banking Financial Services Jacob Sherwood (junior in Mechanical Central Michigan University, Northwood, Collegiate DECA is a student-oriented Engineering) in Advertising Campaign Davenport (Grand Rapids) and Delta College. organization focused on developing future • Britany Parkhurst (senior in Business) in This year, 10 Kettering students captured 16 business leaders. The four cornerstones Human Resource Management awards: two in fi rst place, two in second place, of DECA are career awareness, civic • Ashlea Reiter (senior in Business) and three in third place, with nine honorable consciousness, social intelligence, and Michael Roethemeyer (senior mentions. At the conference, students took and leadership development with in Electrical Engineering) in exams, solved current and practical business competitive events in: Business, Design, Entrepreneurship – Starting your own case study problems, wrote business plans, Entrepreneurship, Finance & Accounting, Business and role-played with industry judges. Of the Food Service & Culinary, Hospitality HONORABLE MENTIONS 10 Kettering students who competed this year, & Travel, Information Technology, • Anastasia Bubin (junior in Business) fi ve were new to the competition and had Management, and Marketing & Sales. Fashion Merchandising and Marketing never competed before at Collegiate DECA. The Besides the yearly state and international • Alan Doucette (junior in Mechanical following honors qualify students to attend Career Development conferences in the Engineering) Retail Management the International Collegiate DECA Career spring, collegiate DECA also sponsors a • Alan Doucette (junior in Mechanical Development Conference in Washington D.C., yearly Leadership Conference in the fall. Engineering) in Marketing Management April 22–26. Bob Lutz Visits Campus and served as the head of Chrysler Corporation’s Global Product Development. he Kettering University chapter of the American Society of He retired as GM’s vice chairman of Global TMechanical Engineers hosted an event on campus featuring Product Development in 2009. prominent author, speaker and the former chairman of GM North Lutz has many noteworthy America Bob Lutz in February. Lutz gave a speech entitled, “ accomplishments in his career, including Straight Talk on Leadership,” in McKinnon Theatre. Following the emphasizing the need for automakers to produce more fuel-effi cient presentation, Lutz answered questions from students and attended vehicles. a reception. Lutz has written three books: Icons and Idiots: Straight Talk on Lutz has had a long and distinguished career in the auto industry. Leadership; Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of He worked for GM Europe, was executive vice president of sales at American Business; and Guts: Eight Laws of Business from one of the BMW, was an executive vice president at the Ford Motor Company Most Innovative Business Leaders of our Time. 6 KETTERING MA G AZINE