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Michigan Tech Steel Plant Trip. Paul Sanders Kent D. Peaslee Junior Faculty Award. Materials Science and Engineering . 1 st Annual Steel Plant Trip. Recruiting Promotion Metrics Events Evening 1 Day Tour Leadership Evening 2 Review. The Plan. Attendee Invitations.
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Michigan Tech Steel Plant Trip Paul Sanders Kent D. Peaslee Junior Faculty Award Materials Science and Engineering
1st Annual Steel Plant Trip • Recruiting • Promotion • Metrics • Events • Evening 1 • Day • Tour • Leadership • Evening 2 • Review
Attendee Invitations • Personal emails • Steel Day attendees • Career Fair sign-up • Targeted emails from HuskyJOBS to 1st and 2nd year students • Social media (Twitter, Facebook) and blog postings available to everyone • Google form for registering restricted to mtu.edu • All undergrads, grads, faculty and staff
Lessons Learned • Overbook bus; 25% of students backed out • Better use of bus time: videos • Safety • Steel process overview • Plant operations/process map • Explain plant job types; what do engineers do? • Better specify shoes for plant tour
2013-14 Metric So Far • Steel Day @ Michigan Tech • 500+ students; target 400 • MSE Open House • 300+ student; target 250 • Conferences; target 20 • MS&T: 20 undergrads in Montreal • AISTech: 5 undergrads/ 2 grads in Indianapolis • Plant trip and leadership experience • 41 students; target 35 • Nucor Crawfordsville for 2015
A Great Team • The support of AIST • On-site planning by ArcelorMittal • The leadership of Michigan Tech Career Services • Michigan Tech relationships with steel industry • ArcelorMittal, Cliffs, Gerdau, and Nucor