From Engineering to Consulting in the New

Mrs. Lane is a 2001 Biomedical Engineering and minor in math Graduate of Mercer University.She is the Managing Director at Accenture in Tampa Bay. She has been with Accenture for over 16 years. She delivered a presentation about technology trends she is seeing at Accenture and around the globe. Some of the technology trends discussed during this presentation were:

• Any company can be a digital company. Even one of the oldest industries in American, mining for minerals and precious metals can use tech to digitize their business and become safer and more efficient. Example


• GE is using augmented reality to fix wind turbines. Example


• How is Amazon impacting other companies? Example


• How Facebook gives misconceptions of reality. Basically think about how something you develop can be misconstrued? Example


• “Raising AI” making sure we are creating Artificial Intelligence for good. Example


• Walmart using Virtual Reality for Black Friday training Example


• Neuropace detects seizures before they happen Example

*Note: These links were not in the presentation, but they do contain information that was discussed.
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Engineering Expo Paper Presentations

1. Enhancing the epoxy erosion behavior by glass beads and carbon fiber addition, and by using thin metallic coatings

2. Developing a traffic signal control algorithm

So I walk into this Mercer Engineering Expo Paper presentation, not really knowing what to expect, because it is completely outside my realm. I sat through two presentations, both presented by students and done in conjunction with Mercer professors. I could not begin to try to write the details of each presentation because of their complexities but, I will say that I could tell that both took a lot of time, research and thought to complete. These students have spent hours on hours of their free time to develop these hypotheses, run tests, write papers, and interpret data for these presentations. Then- to have the fortitude to present them in front of other students and instructors, many with doctorates degrees in the field and be able to answer their tough questions about it. So while, I could not comprehend most of their research, I think they did a great job overall!