The Graduate Women in Engineering Network proudly announces the 2nd annual symposium for graduate women in the College of Engineering. 

Sharing Your Voice, Extending Your Reach
2nd Annual Graduate Women in Engineering Network Symposium

Incentive for Presenters

Those who are registered for and present at the GWEN Symposium will be eligible for the Women in Engineering (WiE) Program Travel Grant drawing. Ten (10) WiE Travel Grants of $1,000 each will be randomly awarded. WiE Travel Grant funds can only be used for professional conference travel within the 2023 calendar year at which the awardee presents their novel research. Names will be drawn at the end-of-day Networking Reception. Must be a current CoE graduate student and present to win.

Key Points

• Submit an abstract of 250-500 words that includes a brief introduction, research significance (which answers the question "why did you do this research?"), methodology, key findings, and the implications of your work. Please keep in mind that your abstract will likely be reviewed by someone outside your field; thus, write for someone who may not be familiar with your research area. 
• The symposium has 5 presentation types (options outlined below). Indicate your top 2 preferences of presentation type on your submission.

Presentation Types

• Workshop Roundtable- focused use of dialogue to foster collective insight around real-life challenges and strategic questions
  • Goal: Build collective knowledge through conversation; an opportunity to discuss research implications, broader impacts, and questions that matter
  • Presentation Format:
    • Audience will be seated at discussion tables with 4-7 persons at each table.
    • Each presenter gives a 3-minutes pitch with 3 slides to share the research topic.
    • Each speaker will sit at a table and facilitate an interactive discussion with the audience to engage in a deeper understanding, questions/suggestions for future work, or impacts of the research.
    • Audience will participate in group discussion for ~10 minutes after which the discussion will end, and participants will be free to move to another table for a new discussion.
    • Examples: outreach activities centered around your audience (e.g., for a 6th grade classroom), feedback on your current research, etc.
• Pecha Kucha- 400 seconds to tell your story with visuals guiding the way. Pecha Kucha means chit-chat in Japanese https://www.pechakucha.com/about
  • Goal: Creative use of images and storytelling to show your research; opportunity to think creatively about your work and how you convey its impact to others
  • Presentation Format:
    • 20 images, 20 seconds each, auto-advancing slides
    • 6.5-minute presentation
    • 3-minute Q&A session
• Popular Press- convey your research as if you were discussing it with a group of high schoolers (the average level of education in the US). Considerations include limiting technical verbiage, connecting your research to broader impacts that are relevant to the general public (e.g., beyond STEM professionals), and answer the questions "so what?" and "why should I care about your research?" to a lay audience; creative use of presentation format encouraged
  • Goal: Practice presenting and describing your research to a lay audience; opportunity to explore different creative formats
  • Presentation Format:
    
    • 6-minute presentation
    • 4-minute Q&A session
• Traditional Conference Talk- the traditional way of presenting your research at an academic conference; usually has slides to aid listeners understand the topic being presented
  • Goal: Practice presenting and answering questions for a talk meant for a traditional academic conference
  • Presentation Format:
    
    • 10-minute presentation
    • 2-minute Q&A session
• Poster Session- a more visual and impactful twist on a traditional way of presenting your research to a general audience
  • Goal: Engage in meaningful conversation about your research across disciplinary boundaries, moving beyond a traditional "poster presentation" and into a conversation, the broader impacts (i.e., beyond the lab), and its potential connections to your audience's research.
  • Presentation Format:
    
    • 2-minute overview from each presenter to pitch your research to the audience
    • 1-hour networking reception to discuss research across multidisciplinary boundaries
  • Presentation Requirements:
    • Posters should have dimensions of 3ft by 4ft
    • Posters should consist of no more than 30 words and/or 3 images! (not including the title, references, and standard author and collaborator/sponsor information)
    • Examples: a provocative question pertaining to your research or future work, key words related to your research's broader impacts. This shouldn't look like a traditional academic poster!

Questions, please contact the GWEN Leadership team: wiepgwen@purdue.edu