Carl S. Selinger

Carl Selinger is an independent consultant helping aviation and transportation organizations with business strategy and applying new technologies. Carl gives professional development seminars – including his unique “Stuff You Don’t Learn in Engineering School” – to teach the non-technical soft skills that are important to be effective in the real world. He is a globally-published author whose book and articles appear widely.

Carl’s recent aviation and transportation consulting projects include: cashless (credit/debit card) payments for airport taxis; helping a Boeing division develop business strategy to for its airport management software in U.S. airports; deploying web-based payphones in U.S. airports; pursuing wireless, airport gate management and other information technology (IT) applications; facilitating new technologies like “smart parking”; promoting a “virtual airport” concept and other seamless airport initiatives; developing innovative concessions like branded “KidsPorts” (children’s play areas) for major hub airports; planning Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) solutions; and developing a concession model to integrate fine art in airports.

Selinger's forty-year career spans aviation, transportation planning and strategic business planning, mainly during his 31-year career with The Port Authority of NY & NJ. Leaving as Manager, Aviation Business Development, Carl developed business, concessions and technology initiatives to improve services and increase revenues at Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty airports, one of the world's largest airport systems. His motto: "Ideas are always welcomed!" Carl managed programs at the Port Authority that returned over $20 million in annual revenues, including: airport advertising; prepaid phonecards; CNN Airport Network; public Internet stations; car rentals; interactive multimedia payphones; developed preconditioned air systems at aircraft gates; managed 5,000 payphones at all PA facilities; marketed Pan Am's $500 million major aircraft maintenance base at JFK; planned the 30-year-old Express Bus Lane on the I-495 Lincoln Tunnel approach; managed the Manhattan Staggered Work Hours Program; authored the Port Authority's first "Strategic Plan"; and guided the start-up of the Air Brook shuttle between Ridgewood (NJ) and EWR.

Carl is a frequent guest speaker, and facilitates strategic planning sessions, focus groups and "Synectics" brainstorming sessions. His seminar, "Stuff You Don't Learn in Engineering School," has helped several thousand engineers and other professionals over the past decade learn non-technical soft skills -- like decision-making, setting priorities and managing time, negotiating, teamwork, running meetings, and writing and speaking better -- to be more effective and happier persons. Articles on these themes appear regularly in IEEE Spectrum magazine, where he is a Contributing Editor. His book Stuff you Don’t Learn in Engineering School: Skills for Success in the Real World has been published by Wiley-IEEE Press. Stuff has been translated into Chinese and has been published in China. Purchase the book at a 15% discount … click here to buy book.

Carl has extensive college teaching experience: Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering at The Cooper Union teaches urban transportation planning for 30 years; and graduate-level aviation and transportation planning courses at SUNY Maritime College. He has taught aviation, transportation and marketing courses at Pace University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and City University of New York (York College and City College). He is a faculty advisor to Cooper Union's chapter of Tau Beta Pi (the national engineering honorary society), which elected him "Eminent Engineer". Carl is Past President of the Cooper Union Alumni Association, and was Cooper Union’s "1993 Alumnus of the Year."

Carl holds civil and transportation engineering degrees from Cooper Union, Yale University, and Polytechnic University. He has been active professionally: Associate Member, Airports Council International – North America (ACI-NA) on the Business Information Technologies Committee and was liaison with the Business & Commercial Management Subcommittee; American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE); Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE); American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE); and Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS), where he Mentors young professionals and chaired the NY Chapter’s Student Affairs Committee, the chapter which honored him as "1998 Member of the Year." He is an Honorary Member of the Sperry Transportation Award, and has chaired ASCE's National Transportation Policy Committee.

9 Aldon Terrace, Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Phone: 973-953-0937

E-mail: selinger99@aol.com Website: www.carlselinger.com

August 2009