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Michigan Tech Steel Plant Trip 2015Paul Sanders, Jim Desrochers
Inaugural 2013 AIST Kent D. Peaslee Junior Faculty Award
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2nd Annual Steel Plant Trip
• Planning• Events• Metrics• Partnership
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The Plan
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Itinerary: Day 1
• 12 hour bus ride to Crawfordsville, IN– Lunch enroute
• Dinner with Nucor• Evening Melt Shop
Tour– Power curtailment
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Itinerary: Day 2
• Rest of plant tour• Leadership
– Nucor culture– Emotional intelligence
• Evening tours– Sarah Fisher Garage– Dallara Indy Car
Factory
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Attendee Invitations• Personal emails
– Steel Day attendees– Career Fair sign-up– Nucor requests
• Targeted emails from HuskyJOBS to 1st and 2nd year students
• Social media (Twitter, Facebook) and blog postings available to everyone
• Google registration form for restricted to mtu.edu– Undergrads, grads, faculty and staff
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Demographics: 39 undergrads
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Plant & Leadership Experiences
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Hearts &
Minds
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Continuous Improvement
• Steel Plant Trip– Overbook bus; 25% of students cancel– Better use of bus time: videos
• Safety/steel making overview• Plant operations/process map
• Steel Industry Day– Blacksmithing activity
• Forge, 10 anvils, safety gear
– Better evening activity?
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2014-15 Metrics So Far• Steel Day @ Michigan Tech
– 1000 students; target 500 (food)
• MSE Open House– 300 student; target 250
• Conferences; target 20– MS&T Pittsburgh
• 5 undergrads/10 grads in Pittsburgh
– AISTech Cleveland• 5 undergrads/ 1 grad in Cleveland
• Plant trip and leadership experience– Nucor 2015 39 students; target 40– Gerdau 2016 Monroe or St. Paul
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A Great Team• The support of AIST• On-site planning by Nucor• The leadership of Michigan Tech Career Services
– From proposal today: Jim Turnquist/Jim Desrochers
• Michigan Tech relationships with steel industry– ArcelorMittal, Cliffs, Gerdau, and Nucor
Industry Days
Helping Students Choose A Career Path
Today’s Student
TrendsGeneration Z is…
More VisualTry & See
Process (How)Open Book World
Raised on Social Media
ImpactNeed to get involved earlier
in student spaces with peer-to-peer networking
“Show Them What It Looks Like”
Industry Days - History
• Started with - Steel Days 2013• Basic Question: “If 1st and 2nd year students don’t know
what a career in the Steel Industry is, why would they come to a Career Fair booth?”
• How do we show them?• Food in the middle of campus• Informal interaction with company
representatives• Panel Discussion
Campus Partnerships
Academic Departments• Student Organization
• Educational Input
Career Services• Event Logistics• Organization
Companies• Content• Representatives
Events in 2015-2016
Fall 20151. Automotive Days2. Foundry Day3. Aerospace Day4. Mining Days5. Railroad Days6. Steel Days7. Petroleum Days8. Business Careers Day
Spring 2016 1. Medical Careers Week
2. Consumer Products Day
The Event
Companies Stude
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FoodInteractive
Relaxed &
Informal
Experiential
Education
Convenient