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Affinity Club
Spotlight
WHARTON AEROSPACE
CONFERENCE
Space has no geographical
limits—and neither
does Wharton Aerospace,
an affinity club started
by Michael Langman,
WG'98, of Rockwell
Collins, and Ellen Chang,
C'88, WG'98, of Northrop
Grumman, and drawing
membership from many
locations. Langman and
Chang, with the support of
Alumni Affairs, have created
an annual conference that
has attracted attention in
executive suites across the
aerospace industry.
The Wharton Aerospace
Conference brings together
industry leaders and alumni
within the aerospace and
defense industries. "In 2004
Ellen and I decided we
would form an industry-based alumni group that
would become the envy of
alumni associations at other
schools," said Langman. They
contacted Alumni Affairs
Director Monty Harris
about the idea, and Harris
provided a contact list of
aerospace alumni and made
Huntsman Hall available
for annual events. Chang
said they were pleasantly
surprised at the high turnout
rate among invited alumni,
and especially that all four
aerospace CEOs who were
invited agreed to speak.
Wharton Aerospace 2006
will be held on the Wharton
campus on February 10,
2006, with an anticipated
audience of 150 alumni.
The event will include keynote
speeches by the CEOs
of three leading aerospace/defense companies; career
development sessions with
the aerospace practice
leadership of search firms;
and a panel on Network
Centric Warfare that will
be conducted by some of
the leading thinkers and
practitioners in what is the
hottest emerging topic in
the defense industry.
Wharton Aerospace is
open to alumni in the aerospace
and defense industries.
To learn more about
the 2006 event, contact
Chang at Ellen.Chang.WG98@wharton.upenn.edu
or Langman at Michael.Langman.WG98@wharton.upenn.edu.
Wharton Aerospace
thanks its event sponsors
Russell Reynolds,
Heidrick & Struggles, L-3
Communications and EDO
Corporation.
Interested in starting a
new affinity group for your
industry? It's easier than you
think—contact Monty
Harris at MontgomH@wharton.upenn.edu.
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