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Michigan Tech Steel Plant TripPaul Sanders
Kent D. Peaslee Junior Faculty Award
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1st Annual Steel Plant Trip• Recruiting– Promotion
• Metrics• Events– Evening 1– Day• Tour• Leadership
– Evening 2• Review
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The Plan
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Attendee Invitations
• Personal emails– Steel Day attendees– Career Fair sign-up
• Targeted emails from HuskyJOBS to 1st and 2nd 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
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Demographics: 41 undergrads
Male
Female
FreshmanSophomore
Junior
Chemical
Electrical
Mechanical
Materials
Other
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Leadership and Plant Experiences
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Hearts &
Minds
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Thank You Notes
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Thank You Notes
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Thank You Notes
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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
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Proposal Metrics
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2013-14 Metric So Far• Steel Day @ 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
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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
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