Class of 2012 MIM Reflection

Congratulation to the MIMer Class of 2012! I am sure we all are exciting for the Hooding Ceremony on December 7 that would take place in Smith Ballroom. Our 15 months program has come to an end that I am sure each of us is going to miss each other since majority of our International students are heading back home. So over these 15 months in the MIM program what have we learn and gain from course and each other?

Master of International Management (MIM) program is unique and diversified in providing knowledge and experience in Pacific Rim markets through its intensive business education grounded in a solid MBA curriculum enhanced by cross-cultural communication, language training in Mandarin Chinese or Japanese, and Asia trip field study. The cohort system is very helpful in helping student practicing their team-oriented in business world as well as easier for students in a group format. In reflection, I have learned and gained valuable experiences and knowledge both through the cohort and unique course designed for working across culture that different from MBA curriculum.

• Strong Connection

MIM is using the cohort system where every students is enrolling starting in Fall term and proceed the same coursework throughout the program. It creates a strong bond and connection among our cohort. We are very close to each other and know each other personality as well as working style where it helps us practice flexibility and adaptable in working together in the group. It was a valuable experience because we all spend time together almost 24 hours per day. We would miss each other after this graduation!

• Training and practicing working across-culture

It is a very important and valuable lesson for me because it is difficult working across-culture due to the language barrier and different communication styles. In order to enhance our leadership in the future in working globally, we need to understand how to work and communicate with other people from different country. There is so much to learn working globally not only knowledge and experience are required, people-skill is needed as well to deliver the right message the audience.

 

We are now ready to graduate in Hooding Ceremony on December 7. Congratulation again!

 

 

Thunyarak “Goy” Katikavongkhachorn

Thunyarak Katikavongkhachorn or Goy is a full-time student in Master of International Management Program. She received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Portland State University. She was interested in studying MIM program because she would like to broaden her career in supply chain and logistics at the global level that focusing on Pacific Asia while studying Chinese as a third language. She currently specialize in supply chain and finance in the MIM program.

Post Graduated Interview

MIM class of 2012 has done with their classes including their capstone project. Today I have interviewed one of the MIMers from Taipei, Taiwan. 

His name is Weiyi Lin. He came to the United States about three years ago and now finishing his Master Degree from Portland State University. During his study at MIM, he chose to focus his study in Global Marketing because marketing is very interesting and creative, thus, the job field in Taiwan is very popular for marketing specialist. Prior to his graduation, he got an offer from his capstone project client, Elemental Technologies, to work as an intern in marketing department to assist the company in market analysis. He really thankful to Elemental Technologies who has given him this great opportunity to gain an experience and knowledge in working in American company and industry. MIM program has given a great opportunity through its capstone project to work with the local company to help them solve them problems as well as gaining an experience and opportunity to learn from them in a real-world situation.

Elemental Technologies is a software company located in Portland, Oregon that specializes in providing massively parallel processing solutions. It creates software that uses GPU to perform multi-screen video encoding, decoding, transcoding, and a pixel processing tasks on commodity hardware for adaptive bit rate streaming of video over IP networks.

Thunyarak “Goy” Katikavongkhachorn

Thunyarak Katikavongkhachorn or Goy is a full-time student in Master of International Management Program. She received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Portland State University. She was interested in studying MIM program because she would like to broaden her career in supply chain and logistics at the global level that focusing on Pacific Asia while studying Chinese as a third language. She currently specialize in supply chain and finance in the MIM program.

Start Something at Big Brothers Big Sisters

On Tuesday, November 15 Big Brothers Big Sisters held the “Start Something Breakfast” event at the Oregon Convention Center. Big Brothers Big Sisters is an organization that help children realize their potential and build their futures through a one-to-one relationship built on trust and friendship that can blossom into a future of unlimited potential. Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks to change the lives of children facing adversity for the better and forever.

Start Something Breakfast event was featuring how all children can reach their potential and share stories of how Big Brothers Big Sisters had impacted their lives. They are operating in communities all across the United States.

At Big Brothers Big Sisters, a little bit of your support will help Start Something big. The breakfast event had many people from all over the community attended including our MIM alumni. It was great to see those MIM alumni out there to help the community.

For more information please visit

Website: http://www.bbbs.org/site/c.9iILI3NGKhK6F/b.5962335/k.4DD4/Start_Something_for_a_child_today.htm

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Thunyarak “Goy” Katikavongkhachorn

Thunyarak Katikavongkhachorn or Goy is a full-time student in Master of International Management Program. She received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Portland State University. She was interested in studying MIM program because she would like to broaden her career in supply chain and logistics at the global level that focusing on Pacific Asia while studying Chinese as a third language. She currently specialize in supply chain and finance in the MIM program.