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Kent D. Peaslee Junior Faculty Award

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1st Annual Steel Plant Trip• Recruiting– Promotion

• Metrics• Events– Evening 1– Day• Tour• Leadership

– Evening 2• Review

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The Plan

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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

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Demographics: 41 undergrads

Male

Female

FreshmanSophomore

Junior

Chemical

Electrical

Mechanical

Materials

Other

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Leadership and Plant Experiences

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Hearts &

Minds

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Thank You Notes

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Thank You Notes

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Thank You Notes

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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

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Proposal Metrics

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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

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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