Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

This is event series is open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
Steven Prast is currently a Senior Staff Industrial Engineer at Tesla, having previously held a variety of leadership roles at the Gigafactories in Reno, Shanghai, and now Buffalo. Prior to coming to Tesla, he was a Senior Manager at Accenture responsible for multi-national technology consulting projects for a variety of Fortune 500 clients. Steven founded a software and consulting firm, EOS Solution, in 2007, which he eventually grew to include multiple offices in four countries serving the Aerospace, Defense and Petrochemical industries. He successfully sold and managed the acquisition of EOS Solutions in 2014 to PROSTEP GmbH before joining to Accenture. Steven graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering in 1998.