1. Materials Science and Engineering Michigan Tech Steel Plant Trip 2015 Paul Sanders, Jim Desrochers Inaugural 2013 AIST Kent D. Peaslee Junior Faculty Award Materials Science and Engineering

2. 2 nd Annual Steel Plant Trip Planning Events Metrics Partnership

3. Materials Science and Engineering The Plan

4. Materials Science and Engineering Itinerary: Day 1 12 hour bus ride to Crawfordsville, IN – Lunch enroute Dinner with Nucor Evening Melt Shop Tour – Power curtailment

5. Materials Science and Engineering Itinerary: Day 2 Rest of plant tour Leadership – Nucor culture – Emotional intelligence Evening tours – Sarah Fisher Garage – Dallara Indy Car Factory

6. Materials Science and Engineering Attendee Invitations Personal emails – Steel Day attendees – Career Fair sign-up – Nucor requests Targeted emails from HuskyJOBS to 1 st and 2 nd year students Social media (Twitter, Facebook) and blog postings available to everyone Google registration form for restricted to mtu.edu – Undergrads, grads, faculty and staff

7. Materials Science and Engineering Demographics: 39 undergrads More Chemical & Electrical

8. Materials Science and Engineering Plant & Leadership Experiences

9. Materials Science and Engineering Hearts & Minds

10. Materials Science and Engineering Continuous Improvement Steel Plant Trip – Overbook bus; 25% of students cancel – Better use of bus time: videos Safety/steel making overview Plant operations/process map Steel Industry Day – Blacksmithing activity Forge, 10 anvils, safety gear – Better evening activity?

11. Materials Science and Engineering 2014-15 Metrics So Far Steel Day @ Michigan Tech – 1000 students; target 500 (food) MSE Open House – 300 student; target 250 Conferences; target 20 – MS&T Pittsburgh 5 undergrads/10 grads in Pittsburgh – AISTech Cleveland 5 undergrads/ 1 grad in Cleveland Plant trip and leadership experience – Nucor 2015 39 students; target 40 – Gerdau 2016 Monroe or St. Paul

12. Materials Science and Engineering A Great Team The support of AIST On-site planning by Nucor The leadership of Michigan Tech Career Services – From proposal today: Jim Turnquist/Jim Desrochers Michigan Tech relationships with steel industry – ArcelorMittal, Cliffs, Gerdau, and Nucor

13. Industry Days Helping Students Choose A Career Path

14. Today’s Student Trends Generation Z is… More Visual Try & See Process (How) Open Book World Raised on Social Media Impact Need to get involved earlier in student spaces with peer-to-peer networking “Show Them What It Looks Like”

15. Industry Days - History Started with - Steel Days 2013 Basic Question: “If 1 st and 2 nd year students don’t know what a career in the Steel Industry is, why would they come to a Career Fair booth?” How do we show them? Food in the middle of campus Informal interaction with company representatives Panel Discussion

16. Campus Partnerships Academic Departments Student Organization Educational Input Career Services Event Logistics Organization Companies Content Representatives

17. Events in 2015-2016 Fall 2015 1.Automotive Days 2.Foundry Day 3.Aerospace Day 4.Mining Days 5.Railroad Days 6.Steel Days 7.Petroleum Days 8.Business Careers Da y Spring 2016 1.Medical Careers Week 2.Consumer Products Day The Event CompaniesStudentsFunFoodInteractive Relaxed & Informal Experiential Education Convenient