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Qualcomm Office Hours:  Stop by to learn about our company, internships & new grad opportunities,  Resume writing tips also available

October 1, 8am to 5pm

265 Chrysler Center next to the Engineering Learning Resource Center

Qualcomm Office Hours:  Stop by to learn about our company, internships & new grad opportunities,  Resume writing tips also available

October 1, 8am to 5pm

265 Chrysler Center next to the Engineering Learning Resource Center

The ECRC is hosting a company day for the Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) located at Edwards AFB, Calif. Students will have the opportunity to discover what it's like to be an armament engineer working with the newest technology. As an armament flight test engineer, you will perform test and evaluation on the most advanced armament systems and aircraft in the United States Air Force. This includes integrating leading-edge weapons such as the AMRAAM (AIM-120), Sidewinder (AIM-9X), Joint Stand Off Weapon (JSOW), and Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) onto advanced aircraft platforms such as the F-16, F-22, F-35, B-52H, B-1B, and B-2A.

In career services the saying goes, the resume gets you the interview and the interview gets you the JOB! Interviews are used as screening processes and to assess fit, ultimately identifying successful candidates for positions. Different companies employ different kinds of interviewing, from the standard to the group interview. This workshop will provide an overview of the standard interview formats candidates may encounter. We will also explore what skill sets interviewers assess, get tips on how to prepare for interviews, and learn how to effectively communicate that you are a qualified candidate.

Gain valuable insight into the case interview process!

• Work through a sample case interview
• Get tips on how to prepare
• Casual Dress

The University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship, the School of Music and MPowered present Aaron Dworkin of Sphinx Organization, "The Sphinx Organization and Classical Music".

PRESENTER: Aaron P. Dworkin is the Founder and President of the Sphinx Organization, the leading arts organization based in the United States that focuses on youth development and diversity in classical music. An accomplished electric and acoustic violinist, Aaron received his Bachelors and Masters of Music in Violin Performance from the University of Michigan School of Music, graduating with high honors. He previously attended the Peabody Institute, the Philadelphia New School and the Interlochen Arts Academy and has studied with Vladimir Graffman, Berl Senofsky, Jascha Brodsky, John Eaken, Renata Knific, Donald Hopkins and Stephen Shipps. Additionally, Aaron studied piano with Robert Alexander Böhnke in Tübingen, Germany. Dworkin will also share a brief video on the organization that includes clips of several of its ensembles, featuring the Sphinx Symphony, Sphinx Chamber Orchestra and the Harlem Quartet.

Electrical and Computer Engineering is very pleased to host a lecture and reception honoring Professor Kamal Sarabandi as the Rufus S. Teesdale Professor of Engineering.

LECTURE TITLE: Recent Research Trends in Applied Electromagnetics

This endowed chair was established by a gift in February 2008 to support a distinguished faculty member in the College of Engineering. Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of Professor Sarabandi, a distinguished member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty.

Interested in learning about how Industrial and Operations Engineers, Material Science Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers and Chemical Engineers make a difference in the container and packaging industry? 

On Tuesday, October 20 the ECRC is sponsoring A Day at O-I! 

Take a trip with the ECRC and a small group of students to visit a O-I manufacturing facility and learn more about how your University of Michigan Engineering degree can be applied in the real world! You will have the chance to ask questions of professionals in the field, go “behind the scenes” of a glass manufacturing plant and find out more about potential employment opportunities with O-I. 

Apply by October 5th to attend this company exploration!

1.    Create an account on HireME. Your “default” resume will be pulled as part of your application.

2.    Log on to the O-I website to learn more about O-I, www.o-i.com.

3.     Fill out an application found at https://www.engin.umich.edu/form/adayatoi. You will be required to state in 500 words or less why going on this trip is of interest to you.  

Space is limited and you will be notified by October 12 if you are selected to attend.

The Bridging Scholarship program will award 20 scholarships to American students participating in study-abroad programs in Japan that begin in Spring 2010. Undergraduate students majoring in any field of study and attending any recognized exchange or independent program in Japan are eligible to apply for these scholarships.

Recipients of Bridging Scholarships will receive stipends of $2,500 or $4,000, depending on the length of their study program in Japan.

The scholarships are funded by donations from U.S. corporations and foundations to the US-Japan Bridging Foundation. Since 1999, the Bridging Scholarship program has awarded 950 scholarships to students studying abroad in Japan. Most recently, 68 students from colleges and universities in 29 states received scholarships for study in Japan beginning in the Fall 2009 semester.

The deadline for applications for Spring 2010 scholarships is October 6, 2009. Applicants will be notified of the results by November 25.

Selection will be based on academic potential and financial need. The scholarships are administered by the Association of Teachers of Japanese.

Spring 2010 programs are those beginning between January and April 2010 and continuing for at least three months. (Summer program participants are not eligible for Bridging Scholarships.) Students planning to study abroad in Japan beginning in Fall 2010 or for the 2010-2011 academic year should apply in April 2010 for the Fall 2010 scholarships.

Information on the Bridging scholarships and downloadable application forms are available at ATJ's Web site:http://www.colorado.edu/ealld/

Maximize your international experience!  Develop strategies and techniques in this interactive workshop to help you successfully market your study, work, internship or volunteer abroad skills and experience to employers.
Session sponsors: Career Center, Center for International Business Education and International Programs in Engineering

Steve Hayman is a National Consulting Engineer with Apple's Education Team based in Toronto, specializing in Apple's developer tools for the iPhone and Macintosh. Prior to Apple, Steve worked with that other Steve at NeXT Computer, where he first fell in love with the combination of powerful object-oriented development tools and a great Unix core; before that he was Network Manager at Indiana University; before that he picked up an M.Math at Waterloo, and before that he had a summer job painting construction equipment. In his spare time he directs Argonotes, the Toronto Argonauts Band, the finest pep band in the Canadian Football League.

The University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship and MPowered present Furqan Nazeeri of Viridus, Inc., "Everything I really need to know about entrepreneurship I learned at the University of Michigan."

PRESENTER: Furqan Nazeeri is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He grew up on a farm in rural Oregon and came to the University of Michigan in 1988 following in the footsteps of his older brother. While at Michigan, he studied aerospace engineering and was leader of the national champion 1993 University of Michigan solar car team. After graduation, he joined a fledgling startup building plug-in electric vehicles which became REVA, the world's largest manufacturer of on-road plug-in electric vehicles globally. After graduating from Harvard University with a MBA in 1999, Furqan set upon an 8 year entrepreneurial career building companies that sell technology solutions to Wall Street. In 2004 he founded Pivot one of the fastest growing networks of professional traders backed by DFJ Gotham, Softbank Capital and others. In 2007 he joined Softbank as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence and his work there evolved into his latest company, Viridus, which is a network of corporate professionals with the mission to create sustainable companies globally.

Free and open to the public.

College students and faculty from across the state of Michigan can now compete for $100,000 for developing the best plan to bring clean energy technology projects to market.

Show your entrepreneurial spirit –submit a business plan on the topic of renewable energy, energy efficiency, environmental control, or energy storage.

Food and refreshments will be served!

Executive summaries are due November 20, 2009. Students and Faculty from all Michigan universities are eligible for the prize. Competition presentations take place on UM Ann Arbor Campus. Final Awards will be presented in February 2010.

This is an introduction Excel class using Microsoft Excel 2007. Through step-by-step creation participants will learn the basic skills of Excel. Excel features learned in this class are: entering data, editing, and formatting data, copy and cutting data, clearing data, inserting rows/columns, changing column and row width/height, and printing. This class is for the beginner or a person who would like a solid refresher of Excel. Questions are encouraged.

*Limited seating to 12 participants*

In Michigan's emerging knowledge-based economy, we'll need innovative engineers-a diverse group of the best and brightest creative thinkers and problem solvers from across the state.

But the pipeline-especially for women and underrepresented minorities-is not in place. What can we do to ensure that our next generation of engineers is well-educated, diverse and prepared to lead Michigan into the future?

Be a part of the leadership that will solve this crisis.

Join industry, U-M and other educational innovators as we explore the issue, examine our progress and plan for the future at this landmark event.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

University of Michigan North Campus
Keynote Address: Chuck Vest
President, National Academy of Engineering,
Former MIT President, U-M Provost and U-M College of Engineering Dean

People often refer to the value of the hidden job market, but what is it and how do we find it? The answers lie in NETWORKING. Networking is one of the best ways to advance your career and contribute to your professional development; yet many students and professional alike do not know where or how to begin networking. In this workshop we will define networking, explain how it can help your career, and also teach you ways to develop, maintain, utilize and communicate with your network.

The Tauber Leadership Speaker Series presents:

World Class Manufacturing: New Business Modules and Reducing the Cost of Manufacturing by Bruce Hettle, Executive Director of Global Vehicle Operations Manufacturing Engineering Ford Motor Company.

This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Bruce W. Hettle is executive director, Global Vehicle Operations Manufacturing Engineering, a position he has held since November 2008. He is responsible for advanced and manufacturing engineering for Ford's assembly operations around the world.

Mr. Hettle joined Ford in 1986 as a process engineer working on vehicle launches. Throughout his career, he has served in manufacturing positions with increasing levels of responsibility, including plant manager at Wayne Stamping and Assembly (2002 - 2004) and Edison Assembly Plant (2000).

Mr. Hettle holds a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Oakland University and a master of science degree in engineering management from Wayne State University.

In career services the saying goes, the resume gets you the interview and the interview gets you the JOB! Interviews are used as screening processes and to assess fit, ultimately identifying successful candidates for positions. Different companies employ different kinds of interviewing, from the standard to the group interview. This workshop will provide an overview of the standard interview formats candidates may encounter. We will also explore what skill sets interviewers assess, get tips on how to prepare for interviews, and learn how to effectively communicate that you are a qualified candidate.

The Goff Smith Prize is the highest external honor bestowed by the University of Michigan College of Engineering. Its intent is to recognize universal high achievement in science and engineering that justly serves as an inspiration to the College community.

Bill Joy will present the 2009 Goff Smith lecture on Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 4 p.m. in the Penny and Roe Stamps Auditorium, adjacent to the Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Drama Center. A reception will follow the lecture in Tishman Hall, located in the Computer Science and Engineering Building on North Campus.

About the Speaker

Bill Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems, and designed and wrote Berkeley UNIX—the backbone of the Internet. Bill's many contributions were recognized in a Fortune cover story which called him the "Edison of the Internet."

About Goff Smith

Goff Smith served his College and University with distinction for over 70 years. As president of the Class of '38E, he was instrumental in creating the 1938E Award, bestowed annually to an outstanding junior faculty member.

 

Considering a graduate engineering degree?

Then come to the workshop “Grad School 101: Making an Informed Decision.” The topics include: why consider grad school?; how to prep for grad school; MS vs. PhD programs; distance learning options; and what you should consider when selecting a graduate program.

The workshop will take place at 1200 EECS on October 15th at 4:30 pm. Hosted by: University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

This panel of CoE alumni has chosen careers that are unique, and they will answer your questions about why they chose the paths they did, and how they got to where they are now. 

Register by 8:00am on 10/14 at https://www.engin.umich.edu/form/alumnipanel.

The University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship and MPowered present John W. Barfield of the Bartech Group, "My Life as an African American Entrepreneur 1949-2009".

PRESENTER: John W. Barfield is the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of The Bartech Group. The Bartech Group is a full service provider of professional staffing support and outsourced vendor administrative services. Bartech recruits and employs technical/engineering and information technology professionals and office/ administrative clerical support personnel on behalf of its fortune 500 clients. Mr. Barfield incorporated John Barfield & Associates, later renamed The Bartech Group, in 1977. He supports many humanitarian causes from eradicating polio in the third worlds, to saving a youth community center locally, to building wells that provide safe drinking water in developing countries such as Haiti and in Africa.

Free and open to the public.

Interested in learning about how Industrial and Operations Engineers, Material Science Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers and Chemical Engineers make a difference in the container and packaging industry?

On Tuesday, October 20 the ECRC is sponsoring A Day at O-I!

Take a trip with the ECRC and a small group of students to visit a O-I manufacturing facility and learn more about how your University of Michigan Engineering degree can be applied in the real world! You will have the chance to ask questions of professionals in the field, go “behind the scenes” of a glass manufacturing plant and find out more about potential employment opportunities with O-I.

Apply by October 5th to attend this company exploration!

1.   Create an account on HireME. Your “default” resume will be pulled as part of your application.

2.   Log on to the O-I website to learn more about O-I, www.o-i.com/.

3.   Fill out an application found at https://www.engin.umich.edu/form/adayatoi

Space is limited and you will be notified by October 12 if you are selected to attend.

You are Invited to a Public Forum on the New National Educational Technology Plan

When:  Wednesday, October 21st, 4pm - 6pm

Where:  Two locations, linked by videoconferencing

• The Atkins Conference Room at SI North, 1075 Beal Ave. (North Campus), Ann Arbor 
• The Tribute Room in the School of Education, 610 E. University, Ann Arbor

The U.S. Department of Education is developing a new National Educational Technology Plan to define a vision for the use of information and communication technologies in transforming education in America. The plan will provide a set of concrete goals to shape state and local educational technology plans, and to inspire (and perhaps fund) research, development, and innovation. The working group of education and technology scholars and practitioners want to hear from you about what should be included.

Our Public Forum will begin with a brief overview of the framework for the National Educational Technology Plan, after which we will engage in a discussion with representatives of both formal and informal education at all levels, from top administrators to students, from schools to libraries and museums. We want to hear how you think technology can best be used to dynamically transform education. To achieve this, our format will allow maximum time for comment and interaction.

All ideas and input from the meeting will be communicated back to the working group and potentially integrated into the plan, which will be completed and released early in 2010. Invited speakers include Ann Arbor Public School leaders, university administrators, public school teachers, high school students, university faculty, museum and library leaders, AND YOU.

You can RSVP for this event on Facebook (optional) at the following link:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=146799324905&ref=nf

Join the conversation before the Public Forum on Facebook.

This presentation will provide an overview of 10 things that employers value and are looking for in college graduates.  Learn how to prepare yourself for a career in a Global environment from Caterpillar Inc, - a Fortune 50 company located in over 50 countries.

Join us as employers & alumni discuss their international experiences in engineering and technology at a fireside chat. Speakers will provide insight into careers in engineering and technology in an informal setting and discuss ways for students to prepare for international opportunities within these fields.

Please RSVP at https://www.engin.umich.edu/form/firesidechat

Session sponsors: Engineering Career Resource Center and International Programs in Engineering

 This event is part of the International Career Pathways series.

A Caterpillar representative will respond to your career related questions. Do you have questions about your interviewing style, about how to respond to interview questions or about trends in the field?  Bring your questions to your R&R meeting.  Recruiter in Residence meetings with Caterpillar are by APPOINTMENT as well as on a drop-in basis. Contact the ECRC, 230 Chrysler Center, (734) 647-7160 or ecrc-info@umich.edu for more details.

Broaden your knowledge and tap into many of Word 2007's powerful timesaving features with the second class in our Word series. You'll learn more advanced character and paragraph formatting, how to save time and get better results by formatting with styles, how to use find/replace techniques to help you quickly clean up documents, and how to use tables to set up columns of text with word-wrap. We'll also explore how Word's powerful AutoCorrect and AutoText features can help you and how to turn them off when they are more of an annoyance than a help. Participants are expected to be comfortable with creating documents in Word and editing them using the formatting commands available on the formatting toolbar. Questions are encouraged.

*Limited seating to 12 participants*

• Interested in ways to integrate international or team experiences into the curriculum?
• Curious about using technology in the classroom and assessing its impact?
• Intrigued about research on how students develop ethical decision-making skills?

Then come learn about projects on teaching and learning underway in engineering at the Fourth Annual Research and Scholarship in Engineering Education Poster Session (sponsored by CRLT North and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs).

There were 19 separate posters on display last year, and more than 100 people attended the session. This year, the program -- open to all interested individuals -- will be Thursday, October 22, 12:30 - 2:00 pm in the Gallery of the Duderstadt Center.

You may register to attend at the CRLT North website list below.

Incidentally, if you are engaged in engineering education research or a scholarly project on teaching/learning in engineering that you would like to share with your colleagues, please consider preparing a poster for the event (email cfinelli@umich.edu for more details about the poster format, including information for getting your poster printed and mounted). Faculty, staff, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students are invited to present, and both completed research or works-in-progress are welcome!

Learn how to do your best EVERY day.  Don't let your natural talents go untapped - devote less time to fixing your weaknesses and more time to developing your strengths.  Listen to representatives from Caterpillar Inc discuss strategies they use to build on employee strengths and how to blend teams based on the natural talents of team members. 

 * Please note that students interested in attending this presentation are requested to register in advance online at https://www.engin.umich.edu/form/cat1022.

The University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship and MPowered present Margaret Boryczka of Apex CoVantage, "Apex CoVantage--Values Driven Entrepreneurship".

PRESENTER: Margaret Boryczka is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Apex CoVantage. She manages the company's global operations which today employ over 2,500 staff in the US and India. Apex celebrated 20 years in business last year. Throughout its history, Apex has steadfastly maintained focus on shareholder value balancing revenue growth with sustained profitability. As COO, Ms. Boryczka has had primary responsibility for operational excellence which has been achieved through process optimization and workflow efficiency, made possible through an approach to technology which "balances the processing power of the computer with the cognitive power of the human mind. Prior to founding Apex, Ms. Boryczka worked at Battelle Memorial Institute as a research consultant on federal nuclear and hazardous waste management programs.

Free and open to the public.

Are you continuing to look for positions as graduation is getting closer?  Worried about how the economy could impact available positions and looking for ways to diversify your job search? If you answered yes to either question attend this workshop to learn about job search tools other than HireME and Career Fairs, and get some tips on how to STAND OUT to recruiters.  

Are you continuing to look for positions as graduation is getting closer?  Worried about how the economy could impact available positions and looking for ways to diversify your job search? If you answered yes to either question attend this workshop to learn about job search tools other than HireME and Career Fairs, and get some tips on how to STAND OUT to recruiters.  

Abstract:  This talk will focus on the achievements of the Drexel Plasma Institute in direct application of plasmas in medicine and on understanding the physical, chemical and biological mechanisms of the direct non-thermal plasma interaction with living tissue. Engineering research has resulted in many advances in healthcare. Ionizing radiation and lasers are examples of technological breakthroughs that created new diagnostics and treatments for disease. Similarly, non-thermal plasma based medical technologies will also have important therapeutic effects and result in new medical diagnostic tools. Some of these include deactivating pathogens, stopping bleeding without damaging healthy tissue, promoting wound healing and treating cancer. Recent advances in controlled non-thermal plasma systems together with discoveries of intense, but non-damaging, direct treatment of living tissues with non-thermal plasmas in open air, have enabled formation of a revolutionary new branch of engineering medicine - Plasma Medicine. The success of Plasma Medicine will depend on a deeper fundamental understanding of the physics, chemistry and biology of plasma/living tissue interaction as well as the development of plasma based medical instruments.

The use of plasmas in medicine has precedents. Thermal plasmas are used for cauterization, tissue ablation and tissue cutting where living tissue is destroyed by the plasma's heat. Nonthermal plasmas have greater flexibility and can produce more subtle non-lethal effects permitting substantial selectivity in its treatment of different types of living organisms, cells and tissues and of sterilizing temperature sensitive medical instruments and implants. Non-thermal plasmas offer these capabilities by catalyzing specific biochemical activity in living tissues and organisms. This activity can be adjusted by tuning plasma properties including the amount and identify of radicals, electronically excited molecules and atoms, charges and UV radiation. The talk will cover optimal discharge configurations and the non-thermal plasma regimes which are effective in healing but non-damaging healthy tissue, especially on the DNA level.

About the Speaker:   Alexander Fridman, is the Nyheim Chair Professor and director of the Drexel Plasma Institute at Drexel University. During his 37 year career in plasma science, he has worked and taught in the USA, Russia and France, authored 6 books and over 500 journal publications, and advised more than 20 Ph.D. students. He has received many awards, including the Kaplan Distinguished Professorship, Soros Distinguished Professorship, DuPont Award for Outstanding Achievements in Chemistry, Chernobyl Award, Kurchatov Gold Medal for Life Achievements in Science and Technology, and the USSR State Prize (with Nobel Prize laureate N.G. Basov). Dr. Fridman cofounded the field of Plasma Medicine and is President of the Intl. Society for Plasma Medicine.

Refreshments will be served after seminar.

What is the difference between a co-op and internship? Why are these experiences important to your college career? How do you find co-op and internship opportunities? If these are some of the questions you’ve been asking, come to this workshop to find out more about co-ops and internships, the similarities and differences between the two, and how to find them.

The University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship and MPowered present Michelle and Aaron Crumm from Adaptive Materials.

PRESENTER: Aaron and Michelle Crumm of Adaptive Materials. Adaptive Materials was borne from Aaron Crumm's PhD work at the University of Michigan to become the de facto standard within the alternative energy market. Crumm's simple, yet radical, business proposition was to develop a fuel cell system that ran off of real fuel. As co-founder and chief business officer of Adaptive Materials, Inc., Michelle Crumm's leadership has been instrumental in helping the fuel cell company transition from start-up to second stage, fast-growing manufacturing company. In her role, Crumm is focused on leading Adaptive Materials to achieve continued high double-digit growth in revenue and profitability, as well as supporting innovation and commercialization of the company's solid oxide fuel cells.

Free and open to the public.

The Michigan China Conference aims to bring people together from different fields to think critically and creatively about the current financial crisis and how to survive the crisis by thriving in China.

The conference will share information and initiate discussions on timing, opportunities, policies and procedures required for the development of business in China. Speakers from distinguished universities and corporations will share insights into the recent financial crisis, and their personal experiences on how to successfully start a U.S. business in China. For more in-depth dialogue on specific topics, panel discussions will be held after keynote speeches.

Students, faculty, staff and local business people, who would like to explore opportunities in China business ventures, are all welcome.

FREE lunch provided for registered participants.