All:

GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt and Purdue President Mitch Daniels will sit down this Thursday to talk about how the company and the university can work together on global problems, and the public is invited to listen in.

"Meeting Our Challenges: A Conversation" will take place from 2:30--3:30 p.m. in Stewart Center’s Loeb Playhouse.

Among other things, Daniels and Immelt will discuss how innovation and talent development affect GE’s global business environment. GE has been the top employer of Purdue graduates over the most recent five-year period.

The program is free and open to the public, but tickets are required.

Tickets are available at the Stewart Center OR Elliott Hall of Music box offices or by calling 765-494-3933. The Stewart Center box office is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The Elliott Hall of Music box office is open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Immelt will spend the day on campus talking to students, faculty and staff about the importance of continued cooperation between GE and Purdue, focused on the education of a global workforce and continued innovation through research.

GE will hold a free technology showcase from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Oct. 2 in the Purdue Memorial Union, Room 118. Students, faculty and the public will be able to meet GE researchers who are working on breakthrough technology in areas including advanced manufacturing, intelligent software, sustainable power and the future of medicine.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

David

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David M. Williams

Purdue University

Senior Director of Development and Alumni Relations

School of Chemical Engineering

Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering, Room 1060B

480 Stadium Mall Drive

West Lafayette, IN 47907-2100

Office (765) 494-4065

Cell (765) 427-0527

dmwilliams@purdue.edu