8:30 - 9:30, Registration
Duderstadt Center Gallery

Check in, onsite registration, information, refreshments, etc.

9:30 - 10:30, Welcome & Keynote Speaker
Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center

Abhishek Chatterjee and Anurag Tripathi, Co-chairs
Erdogan Gulari, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education

Keynote Speaker:

Ian Hiskens, Vennema Professor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

What is the Smart Grid?
The seminar will establish the essential characteristics of a "smart grid" and discuss emerging trends in electricity generation and supply. The consequences of increased renewable generation and widespread adoption of plug-in electric vehicles will be explored, while reviewing the strategies for which the grid will be integrated into our world.

10:45 - 12:00, Admissions and Funding Workshops
Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center

Monique Washington, Director of Admissions, Rackham
Douglas Keasal, Senior Fellowship Officer, Rackham

11:00 - 2:00, Poster Sessions
Duderstadt Center Atrium & Connector, Pierpont Commons, EECS Atrium

12:00 - 2:00, Lunch
Duderstadt Center Gallery

12:00 - 2:00, Lurie Nanofabrication Facility (LNF) Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE) Process Technology
1311 EECS

12:30 - 1:30, Exponent Information Session
1013 H.H. Dow

Robert Lange--Principal, Vehicle Engineering Group VP, and Michigan Alum

1:00 - 2:00, Tours of the Lurie Nanofabrication Facility (LNF)
1301 EECS

1:30 - 2:00, Tauber Institute for Global Operations Presentation
1180 Duderstadt Center

Yavuz Ahmet Bozer, Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering and Ford Motor Company Co-Director 
Diana Crossley, Managing Director of Tauber Institute for Global Operations

2:00 - 2:15, Meet Department Representatives
Duderstadt Center Gallery

All prospective students should convene to meet your department representative. You will then be led to the department for the next portion of your visit.

2:15 - 5:00 PM, Engineering Department Visits

2:00 - 5:30 PM, Oral Presentations
Schedule & Location

6:00 - 8:00 PM, Awards Dinner
Tishman Hall, Computer Science Engineering Building

Winners of the graduate student poster and oral presentations will be announced.