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Student Applications for 2010 field experience due THURS Nov 5, 2009 before 5 pm.

The Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates (GIEU) at the University of Michigan creates new opportunities for short-term (3 or 4 week) intercultural study of a global nature at field sites, both domestic and abroad. The program enables 12 to 15 undergraduates (GIEU Student Scholars), led by faculty members (GIEU Teaching Fellows), to learn in rich cultural environments while gaining a greater understanding of global situations and processes. GIEU is now part of the new U-M Center for Global and Intercultural Study.

GIEU is a year-long commitment. The GIEU Course (UC 275) begins in Winter 2010 and extends into Fall 2010. The field experiences (3 or 4 week internships) take place May 3 to August 16.

Student Benefits:

• Receive paid internship, academic credit, and potential funding through financial aid
• Join dynamic multicultural teams making a difference in intercultural understanding through collaboration, partnerships, service, and networks
• Work closely with U-M faculty
• Develop intercultural leadership skills
• Explore how life is affected by national, political, social, and economic issues you study
• Re-imagine career possibilities
• Share your learning through new experiences on campus

CoE Parents and Family Weekend Reception will be held at the FXB Atrium from 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Parents and families are welcome to join the College of Engineering at our annual reception. The event begins with the reception and information fair which offers you an opportunity to learn more about the student services and supports available to Michigan Engineers.

Following welcoming remarks from College administrators, you will have an opportunity to attend the Innovator Speaker Series or visit a College facility.

For additional information, please contact Jennifer Wegner, in the Office of Student Affairs.

Click on link below for schedule, speaker information and registration form.

The University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship and MPowered present Art Fry, Inventor of Post-it® Notes: "Post-it Notes Were Not An Accident".

PRESENTER: Art Fry, Inventor of the "Post-it" Sticky note. Dr. Spencer Silver in 3M Central Research Labs, created small, sticky spheres. Art Fry, in a Product Development Lab for tape products, attended a seminar where he heard of the sticky microspheres. In 1974 he first thought to use them in bookmarks to mark his music in the church choir. Once made, the bookmarks found even wider use as sticky notes. Fry was able to spearhead the development of Post-it Notes® because of 3M's officially sanctioned policy that permitted bootlegging.

Test sales in 1974 had small success because customers walked by the store shelves without trying them. A year later, 3M issued free samples to residents in Boise, Idaho. Over 90% who tried them said they would buy them and they did! By 1980, Post-it Notes® were sold in the United States and Canada, and launched into Europe in 1981.

As the business grew, a series of products were added to the Post-it® line, with Super Sticky Notes added in 2003 for better adhesion to non-smooth surfaces. The products are easy to use, but technically complex. Patent protection expired in the 1990's and other companies now produce sticky notes, but most of the world's sticky notes are produced in 3M's technology/capital intensive plant in Cynthiana, Kentucky.

 Free and open to the public.

Considering work or interning abroad this summer? This panel will provide you with information about different internship placement organizations and how to apply for opportunities abroad. Representatives from IAESTE, AIESEC and CDS International will be presenting. Speak with past participants, learn about upcoming opportunities and find out how to apply!

5:30-7:00 pm on November 10th

1500 EECS

The Engineering Graduate Symposium is a college-wide event focusing on doctoral and master's programs and graduate student research. This program is open to all College of Engineering current undergraduate and graduate students as well as prospective graduate engineering students from other institutions.

The University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship, the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Office of Student Affairs presents David Green, MacArthur Fellow, Ashoka Fellow and social entrepreneur, "Humanizing Capitalism to Make Medical Products and Services Affordable to Low Income People".

PRESENTER: David Green is a UM grad who has worked with many organizations to make medical technology and health care services sustainable, affordable and accessible to all. David is a MacArthur Fellow, Ashoka Fellow and is recognized by Schwab Foundation as a leading social entrepreneur.

David helped establish Aurolab (India), to produce affordable intraocular lenses (now has 8% of the global market share) and helped develop high-volume, quality eye care programs that are affordable to the poor and self-sustaining from user fees (Aravind Eye Hospital in India) which performs 300,000 surgeries per year - 70 percent of the care is provided free of charge or below - cost, yet the hospital is able to generate substantial surplus revenue. Within this paradigm of 'humanizing capitalism; he now works to create social investing instruments to support sustainable social enterprises (in eye care and solar energy); and is developing affordable hearing devices with a novel fitting system.

Free and open to the public.

COE Faculty and Staff Arts & Crafts Show 2009

• September 1 - deadline for artists who would like their artwork to be considered for the 2009 poster.
• October 1 - final deadline for artists to submit their work for the show.

Diag Day will be the pinnacle of Global Entrepreneurship Week when student organizations from all parts of campus will come together on the Central Campus Diag in an event similar to Festifall. These organizations will be discussing how they embrace and advance the entrepreneurial mindset in their own unique way in both Michigan and beyond. The goal of this event is to highlight the fact that the entrepreneurial mindset is prevalent everywhere and in a variety of ways as highlighted by the wide variety of organizations involved.

Diag Day will also feature a Passport Program which encourages students to visit various tables and converse with the club and venture members to receive prizes.

Serious Games Expo, a showcase of simulation and game-type activities being used for teaching and skill mastery in education, medicine, business and industry. A flight simulator is one example of a serious game---a type of activity designed to foster deep, multidisciplinary, sensory learning.

Thought leaders from the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor community will display their serious game products such as prediction market software Crowd Clarity, Facebook marketplace Bodega Shop, and educational games Bibliobouts and Place Out of Time. Crowd Clarity uses the wisdom of crowds to help companies decide when to launch a new product. Bodega Shop allows Facebook users to shop for and trade gifts. Bibliobouts supports literacy for incoming college students. Place Out of Time assigns participants a historical figure to play as they argue in a trial related to a contemporary issue. These are just a few of the products that will be on display.

"You can do complex, multidisciplinary, multifaceted things in a game environment," said Ken Ludwig, expo organizer and a lecturer in the U-M Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering. "Underlying serious games is how people actually learn. They learn through all their senses and nonlinearly. When you learn stuff this way, you learn it totally."

A map is available at: www.engin.umich.edu/facilities/maps/chrysler.html

SPONSORS: The Center for Entrepreneurship, the Medical Innovation Center, the School of Information and the U-M Library's Computer + Video Game Archive.

Authentic Chinese food!

Student speakers from China and Hong Kong and returned study/work abroad students will share information about the culture and academic and professional environment in these countries. Study and Work abroad opportunities will be discussed. 

 TONIGHT! Thursday, November 19, 6:00pm

DOW 1014

The University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship, the Office of Corporate Relations, the Chinese Entrepreneur Network and MPowered present Nick Yang, Founder and Vice Chairman, KongZhong Corporation, CEO of Wukong, and CEO and founder of Monkey King, "Recognizing and Capturing Entrepreneurial Opportunities, My Experiences Building a Company from Zero to IPO in 2 Years and 2 Months".

PRESENTER: Nick Yang is currently the CEO and founder of Monkey King Search Company in Beijing China. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a BSEE degree in 1997 and from Stanford University with MSEE degree in 1999. After graduation, he co-founded ChinaRen.com, with Stanford classmates, Yunfan Zhou and Joe Chen. By mid-2000, ChinaRen.com had became the fourth largest website in China and was sold to Sohu.com. He became the CTO of Sohu and stayed in Sohu for one and half years. In May 2002, he co-founded KongZhong Inc. with Yunfan Zhou, focusing on wireless value added services In July, 2009, he quit the position as president of KongZhong and founded Monkey King Search Company focusing on mobile search.

Free and open to the public.