Materials Science and Engineering Michigan Tech Steel Plant Trip Paul Sanders Kent D. Peaslee Junior Faculty Award Materials Science and Engineering

1 st Annual Steel Plant Trip Recruiting – Promotion Metrics Events – Evening 1 – Day Tour Leadership – Evening 2 Review

Materials Science and Engineering The Plan

Materials Science and Engineering Attendee Invitations Personal s – Steel Day attendees – Career Fair sign-up Targeted s from HuskyJOBS to 1 st and 2 nd 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

Materials Science and Engineering

Demographics: 41 undergrads

Materials Science and Engineering Leadership and Plant Experiences

Materials Science and Engineering Hearts & Minds

Materials Science and Engineering Insightful Comments On plant tour… – It was so interesting and made me think about checking out the steel industry. – It was a lot of fun, and the guides I had all seemed really excited about working there. – I personally did not like the mills but that does not mean the tour was not good. On leadership experience… – Very great experience! Walked away with valuable knowledge that I can use in any leadership situation! Great way to build engineers and I wish that university offered this program on campus. – It was pretty good, it was more figuring out what type of leader you are than how to be a better one, but I suppose you need to know yourself before you can make any changes. – I thought the training was well done but possible a bit slow toward the end. Perspective… – Without this experience, I would have never known that the steel industry isn't the right fit for me, so I found it a very valuable experience even though I didn't particularly enjoy the tour itself. Thank you Arcelor Mittal for your generosity and professionalism.

Materials Science and Engineering A Career in the Steel Industry? I did not know too much about the Steel industry before this trip. After seeing the plant and learning about the new type of metal they made to reduce car gas mileage I'm very interested in being apart of that. I didn't know anything really before the tour, but knowing how much they are contributing to moving forward, and are making breakthroughs in types of steel, makes me consider them just to be able to say I was part of making something new, that makes the world better. I would consider working for ArcelorMittal because they are working toward efficiency and very strong yet lightweight materials. I also felt like all of the employees knew that they played an important role in the industry and that they all worked and treated each other as a family, including workers overseas.

Materials Science and Engineering Thank You Notes

Materials Science and Engineering Thank You Notes

Materials Science and Engineering Thank You Notes

Materials Science and Engineering 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

Materials Science and Engineering Proposal Metrics

Materials Science and Engineering Metric So Far Steel 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

Materials Science and Engineering 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