Steven Parker
CEM
International Journal of Energy Management | Editor-in-Chief
Speaker
Track J: Professional Development
Session J2: Engineering Your Career: Strategic Growth for Technical Professionals
September 18, 2025 | 9:30 am - 10:00 am
Growing Your Career and Business through Publishing
Journal articles are beneficial to readers. They offer continuing education, lessons learned, and a host of insights to the reader. More importantly, writing (and publishing) journal articles offers many career development opportunities to the author/writer. This presentation will discuss several professional benefits that can reward authors when they publish journal articles. The author-reader relationship is not that different from the mentor-mentee relationship. Ask any mentor and they will confirm that they benefit from the mentoring process. Likewise, writers can testify how they benefit both from the writing, as well as the publishing process. This presentation will enumerate several ways in which your career can benefit from publishing articles in AEE journals. Writing is not as hard as you think. The presenter will show how easy it is to identify your topic and organize your thoughts.
Speaker Bio
Steven Parker, CEM, is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Energy Management (IJEM), a bi-monthly journal of the Association of Energy Engineers. Steven has over 45 years of experience focused on energy management. Steven Parker is a Fellow and Past President of the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), a member of the AEE Energy Manager’s Hall of Fame, a Certified Energy Manager (CEM), and is a retired Professional Engineer (PE). A life member of AEE, Steven also serves as chair of the CEM Exam Development Committee (EDC). Previously, Steve has served as editor-in-chief of AEE’s Energy Engineering journal (2016-2019) and as editor-in-chief of AEE’s Cogeneration and Distributed Generation Journal (2002-2010). Steven began his energy management career in 1981 performing industrial energy audits. He has taught several AEE seminars and has authored a plethora of technical reports, articles, book chapters, and other professional publications on energy efficiency and energy management.