Weldon Graduate Program Announcements
April 27, 2022
Career and Internship Opportunities
Internship Positions
Postdoctoral Positions
Full time Positions
Opportunity to
Mentor Undergrads through GradTrack
Below is an opportunity for
graduate students to mentor undergraduates interested in pursuing graduate school. More information is available at:
https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/Academics/Graduate/gradtrack/index_html.
GradTrack Program Dates:
Meet virtually on Monday nights in the Fall from 7-8:15pm for 1.5 hour from August 2022 – Dec 2022 (8 meetings total, dates to be shared soon; please see website for more information). There will also be a mandatory mentor training in August 2022 and a debrief
dinner in early Dec 2022.
Selected Graduate Student
GradTrack Mentors will be given $1,000 for their time.
What you will do as a mentor:
·
Receive mentorship training prior to program start.
·
Lead a group of 5-7 undergraduate students in monthly discussions about various topics related to graduate school (The Office of Graduate Education will share discussion topics).
·
Actively engage in mentoring. There will be an estimated 2-4 hours a month outside of the monthly meetings to answer student questions, meet one-on-one, and provide feedback on documents when appropriate.
Eligibility criteria:
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Be enrolled in a Master’s or PhD program within Purdue’s College of Engineering
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Be in good academic standing with advisor support of your participation
·
Have an interest in mentoring underrepresented students
Apply to be a GradTrack
mentor
here: https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eM2h4IN5eWCLRjg
To complete this application,
you will need: A resume/CV, a screenshot
confirmation email from your major professor/department confirming that they support you spending time as a mentor, and a short statement of interest in mentoring BIPOC undergraduate students.
See attached
The next seminar in the Purdue Center for Cancer Research
monthly series on career development will be April 28 from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
Jean Branttie, Madalyn Stancik, Maroun Beyrouthy and
Stephanie Stout, from Eli Lilly and Company, will be presenting, “A Panel Discussion with Scientists from Eli Lilly: What an Industry Career Looks Like?”
Please see the attached flyer for more details. Feel
free to forward this invite to anyone you think would be interested.
Register for this webinar at:
https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EnOz9szFQfmyZYsTxtLT3Q
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email
containing information about joining the webinar.
Check out other PCCR career development events and resources
at:
https://www.purdue.edu/cancer-research/Training%20and%20Education/Graduate%20and%20Doctorate.php
If you have any questions or suggestions on the topics
that could be covered in the career development series, please contact Jiang Yang at
yang1491@purdue.edu.
PATHFINDER: A program
dedicated to career development of Purdue life scientists
Pathfinder is a new program dedicated to help with career
development. Pathfinder aims to link with local companies and build bridges for improving the retention of talented life scientists in Indiana. The program exposes our talented graduate students and postdocs to scientists that are currently working in life
sciences companies in Indiana and can act as models for successful careers at our doorsteps. The plan for the Pathfinder program is to conduct virtual interviews sessions with industry scientists and capture their story to identify factors for their success
as industry scientists.
Our first interview is with Jonathan Snyder, PhD, Principal
Research Scientist at Elanco in Greenfield, IN:
Thursday, April 28th from 3:30pm to 4:30pm.
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/94020385466
Graduate Professional
Development Newsletter (April 22)
NEW! Exciting
Program for Students in Regulatory Education
See attached
Course announcement
If you are interested in data science or any experimental
work, please check this course. ME 584 deals with building models from data or the conditions that experiments must satisfy to extract the parameters of physical systems. The course will also give you some of the rigorous bases of AI/ML methods. You can contact
course instructor Dr. Ariyur for questions.
ME 584--System Identification
Instructor:
Kartik B. Ariyur (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kartik_Ariyur)
Course description:
The course this time will be suitable to students all around science
and engineering and the data sciences. Students will be able to work on a variety of course projects identifying generalized least squares models, or dynamic system models, or various machine learning models. It will provide a fundamental grasp on the underlying
theory (least squares, maximum likelihood estimation and connection to experiment design), models for estimation (ARMAX type or difference equation models, neural nets--supervised/unsupervised, physics-based), estimation algorithms (subspace, linear dimensionality
reduction, convergence issues) and their implementation (testing for optimality, robustness, and statistical validity). Extensions to inverse problems and pattern recognition will also be covered. The course will possibly have an online section later on for
those looking for schedule flexibility.
The course has typically had students from all over engineering,
including those from thermal and fluid sciences, food science, and agriculture. See the attached syllabus from last year for the details.
Executive
Functioning for Biomedical Researchers- May 2, 3 PM part of Mental Health Awareness Month
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and the NIH Office
of Intramural Training and Education (OITE) is excited to be starting the month off with the fifth installment of the Mental Health and Well-being for Biomedical Researchers Series.
Please join us May 2nd, 3:00-4:10pm ET for
“Executive Functioning for Biomedical Researchers”. The webinar will define executive functioning (EF) skills, with a particular focus on the role of EF for those working in biomedical research fields. The webinar will provide information on the types of
daily stressors that impact one’s executive functioning, as well as concrete ways to manage EF needs and build EF tools. Please
Register.
Immediately following the webinar (from 4:10 – 5:10),
we will host small group discussions facilitated by an OITE wellness advisor to discuss the material in greater depth. There will also be two supplemental sessions offered later in May, to further support EF skills building, as well as communicating about
EF needs. Information on the follow-up sessions will be sent to those who register for the webinar. Additionally, a recording of the webinar will be made available 24-48 hours after the webinar. This series is open to everyone at NIH and beyond, so feel free
to forward to colleagues at other institutions.
NIH Career
Symposium May 11-13, 2022
Registration is now open for the NIH Career Symposium
(May 11-13, more info below) for all trainees in the biomedical sciences (intramural and extramural- postdocs and grad students). This year we are using an online platform to make it easier and to provide more interactions between participants and speakers.
You are welcome to come to every session, or just the ones you are interested in. Registration is free (but please only register if you actually plan on coming)
Once registered we encourage you to explore the agenda
and the current speakers—we are still adding more speakers in many sessions, so check back often! (and if you have a speaker request, let me know)
ONE REQUEST—if
you are planning to attend particular sessions please add that to your Agenda within the Whova pages—that way we have a feel for how many participants are coming to each session and if we have an adequate number of speakers.
(instructions below)
15TH ANNUAL NIH CAREER
SYMPOSIUM- AN ONLINE EVENT
May 11-13, 2022 11:00 am - 5:45 pm
The NIH Career Symposium highlights the diversity of
career choices available to biomedical researchers today. Whether you are a new graduate student, postdoc, or clinical fellow just beginning to consider career options or a senior student/fellow ready to look for a job, the NIH Career Symposium is for you. Wondering
what the Career Symposium is all about? Check out past events here.
We have already recruited over 250 speakers for you to
network with. We will start each day with an intro on each sector (career options, being a competitive applicant, resources for success. This is a great way for you to jumpstart each day and plan for what events you would like to attend. Then you will have
the ability to network with professionals in a variety of jobs, participating in informational interviews, which we hope will help you identify your career of choice and the steps required to get your foot in the door. We will host a series of zoom rooms for
career conversations with one or two speakers. Multiple rooms with speakers in similar career paths will run concurrently. For example, research positions in industry would have multiple rooms going at once. Our goal is that each room will have no more than
15 participants, giving every attendee ample time to connect with a professional. Participants will have the ability to move through the “rooms” as they like, meeting a speaker, asking questions, or even just listening in to see if a particular career path
looks enticing. NOTE: What is said in these rooms will NOT be recorded.
We will also have a workshop on
Why Career Choices are so Hard: a practical guide for navigating the career
on Wednesday afternoon, and a workshop on Thursday afternoon on Current Hiring Trends.
Closer to the event we will send a guide to those
registered on how to navigate these rooms for informational interviews (including seed questions).
WED-MAY-11 - ACADEMIC CAREERS
THU-MAY-12 - INDUSTRY CAREERS
FRI-MAY-13 - FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE CAREERS
If you would like to explore these career options on
your own schedule, we have a plethora of panels, interviews and written synopses of previous events. Check out past events here.
Instructions for
WHOVA Agenda ADD
https://whova.com/embedded/event/multi2_202202/?utc_source=ems
Fall 2022 Tech
Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Course
See attached flyer
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Related Resources
Some other resources you might want to explore are:
Workshops and Deadlines
Here are some upcoming workshops and deadlines more detailed information about the workshops
will be sent out separately closer to the event.
April 29th Deadline to apply for summer Intensive Writing Experience (IWE)
April 30th
Bloomberg
Data Science Fellowship Due
May 4th OIGP Spring Reception
May 5th Faculty Coffee Chat: Professor Alexandria Volkening
May 13th Peer Mentoring Grab and Go Lunch
News from You
Please inform Tammy of honors, awards, or other accolades (to include having a paper published) you receive
so that the Weldon School may recognize your accomplishments. Send the complete information – specific title and nature of the award, name of conference or event at which award was given, date of said event, photograph if available, etc. – to
tsiemers@purdue.edu.
Tammy Siemers
Senior Graduate Training Program Administration and Professional Development Specialist
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
206 S. Martin Jischke Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2032
o: 765-496-0294
Achiever, Relator, Includer, Restorative, Developer
