This semester on Tuesday, November 12th from 10 am to 12 pm in the Student
Center Ballroom, Georgia Tech is proud to be hosting its first semi-annual
Undergraduate Research Fair, sponsored by Pi Tau Sigma, the Mechanical
Engineering Honors Society on campus. The goal of this event is to simplify the
process of finding and hiring high quality undergraduate research students for
your labs, and will resemble a career fair. Our vision is to offer a
single-point of interaction for undergraduate students, and professors or
graduate student mentors, to discuss research opportunities and assess fit for a
particular project or lab. We hope that this event will serve to increase the
number of qualified undergraduate research students applying to your labs and to
improve the efficiency of interviewing and hiring these students. We invite
professors and/or graduate student mentors from all COE labs to
attend.
Representatives from each lab will be set up with a table, and provided with complimentary snacks and refreshments. Undergraduate students will be required to bring a current copy of their resume for admission, and will be able to visit booths that they are interested in to discuss the previous and future research projects that each lab is involved with. Professors or graduate student mentors can take this opportunity to review the student’s resume, ask them questions about their skill sets, and if the match seems promising, can exchange contact information, or, if desired, set up a secondary interview with the professor or lab group in the coming weeks. Each participating lab group will select a one-hour time slot during which they plan to attend the fair. Lab representatives are encouraged to bring posters of your previous research in order to give the students a visual example of your work’s results and impact.
To ensure that the students are adequately prepared for the event, Pi Tau Sigma will be hosting two information sessions the week prior to the Undergraduate Research Fair, to work on resume preparation and provide general information regarding the research areas of those labs registered to attend the Fair.
Below is a link to an RSVP form for the event.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1w5eukSdg2OsItXqy_3tjVv3ZxjChjvBswfxb5jbBY7A/viewform
Please pick a time slot that you would like to attend, enter your lab name, and submit a one to two sentence summary of the broader impact of your lab’s research. The RSVP deadline is November 9th.
We hope to see you there!
Best Regards,
Dr. Caroline Genzale
Assistant Professor, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
caroline.genzale@me.gatech.edu
Representatives from each lab will be set up with a table, and provided with complimentary snacks and refreshments. Undergraduate students will be required to bring a current copy of their resume for admission, and will be able to visit booths that they are interested in to discuss the previous and future research projects that each lab is involved with. Professors or graduate student mentors can take this opportunity to review the student’s resume, ask them questions about their skill sets, and if the match seems promising, can exchange contact information, or, if desired, set up a secondary interview with the professor or lab group in the coming weeks. Each participating lab group will select a one-hour time slot during which they plan to attend the fair. Lab representatives are encouraged to bring posters of your previous research in order to give the students a visual example of your work’s results and impact.
To ensure that the students are adequately prepared for the event, Pi Tau Sigma will be hosting two information sessions the week prior to the Undergraduate Research Fair, to work on resume preparation and provide general information regarding the research areas of those labs registered to attend the Fair.
Below is a link to an RSVP form for the event.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1w5eukSdg2OsItXqy_3tjVv3ZxjChjvBswfxb5jbBY7A/viewform
Please pick a time slot that you would like to attend, enter your lab name, and submit a one to two sentence summary of the broader impact of your lab’s research. The RSVP deadline is November 9th.
We hope to see you there!
Best Regards,
Dr. Caroline Genzale
Assistant Professor, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
caroline.genzale@me.gatech.edu
Emily Simonds
Research Chair, Pi Tau Sigma,
Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate
