The challenge:
Social relationships between students and faculty are difficult to cultivate because of the extreme time pressures felt across the department.
The Outcome:
Create a structure that makes it easy for faculty and students to organize an informal lunch, with perhaps 5-10 students per faculty member.
Faculty can arrange lunch discussions on their own, but an easy-to-use sign-up structure (like a website?) plus reasonable reimbursement could make this program both popular and valuable to ME.
The Preliminary Success Metric:
ME faculty have lunch with 300+ UG students annually.
The Pathfinder Project: Design a pilot around a topic area of interest to students. Examples of topics:
- Tips on finding a summer job
- Why you should consider a research experience
- Strengthening your presentation skills
- Improving your communication skills
- Getting ready for a job fair
Proposed pilot: Getting a summer job. Two faculty members agree to prepare a coaching session to be held in the faculty conference room. Limit 20 students. Subtopics could include:
- Preparing materials: resume, cover letters
- How to look for information
- Preparing slides for a job talk
- Participating in a phone interview
- Having lunch or dinner with a company representative
This team includes:
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