Upcoming Events

Prior to seminar today, we will have snacks in GRIS 360 from 4:00-4:30. The IE GSO hopes to see everyone there!! The plan is to have a weekly Seminar Snack Time prior to seminar each week.

Tomorrow (Wednesday, Aug 26th) is the picnic at Squirrel Park which is located on the corner of State Street and Airport Road next to Purdue Village. The food will be Jimmy John subs, chips, drinks, and dessert. This starts at 5 pm. This will be location even if it is raining. If the weather is nice, then we will have Frisbee, soccer, and other sports available.

Friday is the PGSG picnic at Squirrel Park – Sandy sent an email out last week about this picnic.

Upcoming Events

Thursday, August 20th

Welcome Party for New Graduate Students

Photo Scavenger Hunt - Meet at 6 pm in Grissom 155

Boiler Market Pizza Party after Scavenger Hunt

ALL STUDENT WELCOME - NEW AND CURRENT

Friday, August 21st

Human Factors Lab Tour

ALL STUDENTS WELCOME

The Healthcare and Information Visualization Engineering (HIVE) Lab

When: 2 pm

Where: GRIS 101

The Human-Integrated Systems Engineering (HISE) Lab

When: 3 pm

Where: POTR B20

Wednesday, August 26th

Welcome Picnic at Squirrel Park

ALL STUDENTS and FACULTY WELCOME

Begins at 5 pm

Events for March 2 - 6

Travel Grant Applications are due by 5 pm today.

MGL lab tour has been postponed until March 24th due to faculty candidate seminar tomorrow.

Faculty Candidate Seminar on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 4:30 pm in Grissom 180
Guanghui (George) Lan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Robust and accelerated stochastic approximation approaches for stochastic optimization

NSF Director Arden L. Bement, Jr. speaks at Purdue, March 4 at 3:30 pm in East Faculty Lounge (PMU)
“In the Barash Tradition: Imagining the Shape of Things to Come”
Director of the National Science Foundation and former Purdue distinguished professor Arden L. Bement, Jr. will be the featured speaker for the inaugural Moshe M. Barash Distinguished Lectureship for Manufacturing Engineering, which is named for the late Purdue professor emeritus.
A reception will follow immediately in the Lafayette Room, PMU.

Faculty Candidate Seminar on Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 4:30 pm in Grissom 180
Lu (Andrew) Liu, Johns Hopkins University

Shirt Design Competition for COE Graduate Programs - Must be turned in by 5 pm Friday, March 6th

Students needed for breakfast with the last faculty candidate on March 11th... please contact Ashley (ajbenedi@purdue.edu) if you are interested.

Don't forget to vote on the date of the plant trip - on the right side.

ABE-IE Social - Time changed to 7:30 pm

At 6 pm on Friday, Feb 20th, the creator of PhD comics, Dr. Jorge Cham, will be giving a talk on "The Power of Procrastination" in CL-50, Room 224. This is being sponsored by PGSG. Rather than have our social conflict with this event, we have decided to push the event back to 7:30 pm to allow students to attend both the presentation and the social.

IE GSO JOINT SOCIAL EVENT with ABE GSA
Time: 7:30 PM on Friday 20 February
Location: The Vault (205 N. 2nd St. in downtown Lafayette, across from the train station)

Play billiards with your IE friends, meet some of the Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE) grad students and enjoy some FREE appetizers!!

Google Calendar

If you would like to link to the IE GSO calendar using Google calendar, you can search for "Purdue IE GSO" in the "Search Public Calendars" option. Then add the "IE Graduate Students" calendar. This calendar will be updated regularly.

Seminar Presentation

The information provided during the seminar can be found at http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ajbenedi/Seminar20090120.pptx. Please let Ashley Benedict (ajbenedi@purdue.edu) know if you would like to attend any of the faculty candidate breakfasts. Also travel grant and mentoring applications are now available.

Welcome Back

I hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing break. Here is information for the upcoming GSO events.

Spring 2009 GSO Meetings
Jan 20th 1st Meeting – Welcome Meeting - snacks will be provided
Feb 3rd 2nd Meeting – Tour Dr. Landry’s Lab (David Rozovski)
Mar 3rd 3rd Meeting – Tour MGL (Chris Saldana)
Apr 7th 4th Meeting – Elections

First Thursday and Third Wednesday – Brown Bag Lunch in PMU – Get to know other IE graduate students

Sporting Event
Jan 31st ChemE Competition – Need participants and team captains
Apr 18th Black and Gold Spring Football Game and Picnic

Socials
Jan 20th Welcome Back Social – Jake’s at 5:30 pm (after seminar)
Jan 23rd Opportunity for lunch with IE's Advisory Board (TBA)
Feb 19th Graduate Student Appreciation Carnival – PMU North Ballroom from 12 pm – 2 pm
Feb 20th Social with ABE – Location and time are to be determined
Mar 26th Social with IE Undergrads – Bowling – Location and time are to be determined

Mentoring
Mentoring Opportunities – 2 upper level students for each research area (8 mentors in total).
Mentors must have attended Purdue as a graduate student for more than one year.
Mentors will receive 250 business cards.
Mentors and Mentees will have a budget of $80 for the academic year to be spent on food and drinks (non-alcoholic).

Seeking grad student representative for each professor - please email Ashley at ajbenedi@purdue.edu if you are interested.

Website Information
Facebook Group – Search Purdue IE GSO if you want to join

New blog page – http://purdueiegso.blogspot.com/

Additional Topics
Day Trip - Ideas include Caterpillar, Subaru, Wabash National, or Eli Lilly

Travel Grant - Application will be posted soon and will consist of a confirmation that you submitted a paper to a conference and the abstract of the paper; Up to three $250 grants may be given