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A Note From the ASEM President-Elect | September 2026

2026 ASEM INT'L ANNUAL CONFERENCE
October 7–10, 2026 | Madison Marriott South | Madison, Wisconsin

This October, ASEM will gather in Madison, Wisconsin, for the 2026 International Annual Conference. Join engineering management professionals, educators, researchers, students, and industry leaders for practical learning, meaningful connection, technical sessions, industry tours, and the Friday Awards Banquet.

The 2026 conference theme,Engineering Management at the Intersection of Innovation, People, and Purpose, reflects the work of today’s technical leaders: turning ideas into results while helping people and organizations thrive. 

Registration is open. Make plans now to attend—and invite a colleague who would add to the conversation. 

Register for IAC 2026 

Why Attend IAC 2026?

• Bring home ideas you can use.Technical sessions, panels, and workshops are built around the decisions and challenges engineering managers face.
• Expand your professional network.Meet practitioners, educators, researchers, students, and experienced leaders from across the engineering management community.
• See engineering in action. Optional tours connect conference learning with real operations, innovation, and manufacturing.
• Celebrate the profession.The Friday Awards Banquet recognizes service, scholarship, publication, and achievement across ASEM.

Meet the 2026 Engineering Manager of the Year

Steve Nackers has built a 20+ year career at Sub-Zero Group, Inc., progressing from hands-on engineering roles to senior leadership overseeing enterprise-level technology portfolios. As Director of Electronics and Connectivity, he leads the company's software, hardware, mobile, and IoT cloud platforms and cross-functional teams spanning product development, advanced research, and manufacturing integration.

Nackers tripled the size of his engineering organization over three years while sustaining near-zero voluntary turnover. He successfully guided the team through the global microchip shortage without losing delivery momentum, while mentoring engineers into senior and management roles through formal and informal programs. He founded Sub-Zero's AI Center for Enablement and its AI Champions peer development program, building capability across departments rather than within his own reporting line. 

He also spent five years on the Employee Focus component of Sub-Zero's People with Passion initiative and speaks regularly on engineering leadership and professional development to students, early-career engineers, and practicing professionals.

Read more about the 2026 Engineering Manager of the Year HERE and join us in Madison as he delivers the Keynote address during the Friday evening awards banquet.

Explore Madison Through Optional Industry Tours

Begin the conference experience on Wednesday with optional tours that connect engineering management learning to real operations, innovation, and manufacturing. Capacity and registration requirements may apply, so please review the conference site before making your plans.

Review Industry Tour Information 

Help Build ASEM’s Next Chapter

ASEM is growing, and we are looking for members who want to help shape what comes next. Our updated organization structure creates clearer leadership areas, stronger succession planning, and practical ways for members to contribute their time, talent, and ideas.

Volunteer and Leadership Opportunities

Whether your strengths are connecting people, building programs, supporting students, advancing certification, improving communications, or bringing new industry voices into ASEM, there is a place for you to contribute.

Open leadership and contribution opportunities include:

• Marketing Director
• Director of Membership
• Director of Education and Certification
• Practice Periodical Editor

• Professional Certifications Director
• Blogs/Webinar Director
• Website for AI
• Student Membership Director

If one of these areas sparks your interest, raise your hand. You do not need to have every answer before getting involved. ASEM needs members who are willing to bring energy, curiosity, practical experience, and a desire to help the Society serve the engineering management community even better.

Submit your area of interest HERE to receive more information and to apply.

Live Event | The Manager After Management: Rethinking Engineering Leadership in the Age of AI

29 September 2026 ~ 12pm EDT / 11am CDT

Register at https://asem.org/event-6817905

Zoom link provided with registration confirmation

What happens when the systems we manage begin to think, learn and act with us?

For decades, engineering management has been built around planning, predictability, optimization and control. AI is beginning to challenge that foundation. As intelligent systems take on a greater role in decision-making, analysis, coordination and execution, the manager’s role is shifting from controller to sense-maker, from planner to curator of intelligence.

This event explores the transition from systems thinking to agentic thinking and asks a bigger question: How should management evolve when intelligence is no longer exclusively human?

Drawing on established management thinking and emerging AI realities, we will explore the rise of intelligent organizations, the changing role of managerial judgment, the relationship between human and algorithmic decision-making and the new literacies engineering managers will need to lead in an AI-enabled world.

ASEM Proudly Recognizes Recent CAEM, CPEM and EMSSGB Certified / Recertified Individuals:

• Brian Smith
  
• Abel Ramirez Maldonado
  
• Kael Stelck
  
• Nicholas Crass
  
• Wesley Hall
  
• Nathan Arnwine
  
• George Grant
• Eric Ong
  
• Isaiah Cody
  
• Shiran Puwanesvaran
  
• Clifford Henderson
  
• J. Kevin Lanier
  
• Bijina Rajbhandari
  
• Yogendra Panta
  
• Cole Culver
  
• Richard Mowrey
  
• Ahmed Sadek
• Phillip Power
  
• Aman Gupta
  
• James Marion
  
• Chaitanya Sagar Tadi
  
• Naeim Farahi Ghoddoosy
  
• Zubin Mehta
  
• Erik Tomlinson
  
• Douglas Lane
• Natalie Waters
  
• Erica Ahlschwede
  
• Alex Gorod
  
• Kalen Berry
  
• Nasrullah Khan
  
• Michael Uytingco
  
• John Bauer
  
• Clement Potoki
• Reginald Burroughs
  
• Mike Koper
  
• Steve Wang
  
• Michael Burlamachi
  
• Hyuk Soo Son
  
• Andrea Foutch
  
• Bryan Wahlfield
  
• Ipek Bozkurt
  
• Matthew Hennings
  
• Joseph Wilck
  
• Sandro Serpone
  
• James Brino
  
• Faizan Warraich
• Anthony Doran
• John Bennitts
  

• Mariam Mamdouh Abdelhay Kamel
  

• Keith Mandachit
  

• Marina Samaan
  

• José Rodríguez

• Joevince Molbog
  

• Ethan Harvey
  

• Muhammad Farrukh

• Yahmin Norwood

• Geena Brown
  

• Matthew Kidd
  

• Bryan Allen
  

• Cody Mathison

• Ahmed Elmiligy
  

• Thomas Hoyt
  

• Nam Nguyen
  

• M. Affan Badar
  

• Camille Crichton-Sumners

• Chelsey Guillou
  

• Muyiwa Dare Ogunbiyi
  

• Nathan Madsen
  

• Valerie Denney

• Grant Hooson
  

• Artem Shushkov
  

• Bilal Janoudi
  

• Ben Domingo
  

• Saim Salim
  

• Laith Abu Haija
  

• Derrick Buck
  

• Ona Egbue
  

• Alireza Jamalipour
  

• Vishwas Mathur
  

• Seong Dae Kim
  

• Alexandra Africano
  

• David O'Toole

• Reza Bahari

• Ali Zare

• Akhmad Yudhono
  

• Aaron Ofosuhene
  

• Scott Young
  

• Sivakumar Natarajan
  

• Joel Ludwig
  

• Monib Shahzad

• Mohamed Awwad
  

• Omar Abdelkarim
  

• Cristi Haygood

• Saksham Poudel​

• Lucas Burden
  

• Abubaker Haddud
  

• Montaser Ali Khalifa Seedahmed
  

• Henry Oh

• Rasheem Clark
  

• Raymond Smith
  

• Oluwaseun Ayeyemi
  

• Mohamed Gomaa
  

• Zahra Almatar
  

• Alaa Selim

• Snehal Lingnur
  

• Michael Rubin
  

• Rocky Li
  

• Felix Lu
  

• Diego Jiménez
  

• Shwetha Bayya
  

• John Bricklemyer
  

• Fayez Ghabboun

• Venkata Krovvidi
  

• Mohamed Almarashda
  

• Obaid Alkaabi

• Jason Wayment
  

• Jess Matias

• Joel Jackson
  

• Adnan Mahmood
  

• Walter Barnes II
  

• Tugrul Daim
  

• James Warren
  

• Chris Jardin
  

• Hares Rassuli
  

• Gariann Gelston
  

• Danielle Hilliard
  

• Feras Elimam
  

• Joseph Isodje
  

• Ibrahim Peerzada
  

• C'Anna Wiens
  

• Tara Asgarpoor

• Abhilash Markkassery
  

• Nicholas Hughes
  

• Robert Crowder
  

• Jonathan Sullivan
  

• Jamebel Mahan
  

• Rochelle Watson
  

• Muhammad Bilal
  

• Nicholas Underwood
  

• Raed Fatehi Hasan Ali
  

September 24th - 27th, 2025

The 2025 ASEM International Annual Conference was a Terrific Event!

Hosted at The Grove Hotel, Boise, Idaho, USA

The University of Alabama in Huntsville's Office of Professional and Continuing Education is offering an online on-demand Certification Prep Course. Course registration offers 26 hours of instruction and includes:

• Complimentary ASEM^® Membership
• Digital Course Materials
• Exam Voucher for either the CAEM^® or CPEM^® Exam

Find out more at https://www.uah.edu/opce/program-topics/ASEM

ASEM is proud to now offer the 3rd edition of the Engineering Management Handbook. This EM Handbook edition focuses on the practical application of the domains thus differentiating it from the second edition.

You may download this text through your ASEM membership portal as an member benefit. For non-members, the PDF is available for purchase on the ASEM Store website. Hardcopies will soon be available for purchase on the ASEM Store website as well.

The 11 Domains covered in this handbook, each of which include related topics, are:

Validate Your Skill Set with Professional Certification through ASEM

ASEM offers the two most important industry-recognized certification for technical managers. You can find CAEMs and CPEMs involved in managing and leading at all levels and types of engineering and technology-driven organizations in nearly every country. Over the past twenty years, ASEM has been engaged in intensive research and development to identify the education, skills, and knowledge critical for success as a technical management professional. This work has supported the development and continuous improvement of this formal method for recognizing the CAEM or CPEM engineering management professional designation.

Visit https://asem.org/EM-Professional-Certifications to find out more, and to begin the process to becoming professionally certified as a technical manager, today!