Schedule

Thursday, October 6

8:00am	Shuttle bus from hotel to campus	Sheraton Palo Alto
8:30am – 9:00am	Breakfast	Bldg. 520 Lobby
9:00am – 9:30am	Welcome: Wendy Gu (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering) and Allison Okamura (Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering)	Bldg. 520, Room 131
9:30am – 10:00am	The Job Application Process: Wendy Gu	Bldg. 520, Room 131
10:00am – 11:00am	Telling Your Research Story: Barbara Karanian (Adjunct Lecturer, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering)	Bldg. 520, Room 131
11:00am – 11:30am	Develop and Practice 2-Minute Lightning Talks	Bldg. 520, Room 131
11:30am – 12:00pm	Hiring and Mentoring Graduate Students and Postdocs: Allison Okamura	Bldg. 520, Room 131
12:15pm - 1:15pm	Lunch with Persis Drell (Stanford University Provost and Professor of Physics) and Faculty	Faculty Club- Redwood room
1:30pm - 2:00 pm	Lightning Talks #1 (10 presenters, 2 minutes each)	Bldg. 520, Room 131
2:00pm – 2:50pm	Grant Proposal Writing: Hoda S. Abdel Magid (Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Health Policy)	Bldg. 520, Room 131
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Lightning Talks #2 (10 presenters, 2 minutes each)	Bldg. 520, Room 131
3:30pm - 3:45pm	Coffee Break	Bldg. 520 Lobby
3:45pm - 4:30 pm	Lightning Talks #3 (12 presenters, 2 minutes each)	Bldg. 520, Room 131
4:30pm - 5:30 pm	Pathways Through Academia: Allison Okamura, Tania Morimoto (Asst. Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Eng. Dept., UC-San Diego), Eni Halilaj (Asst. Professor, Mechanical Eng. Dept., Carnegie Mellon University)	Bldg. 520, Room 131
5:30pm	Shuttle to hotel, meet at lobby at 6:15 pm to walk to dinner	Sheraton Palo Alto
6:30pm - 9:00pm	Dinner with faculty at Joya (339 University Ave, Palo Alto)

Friday, October 7

8:00am	Shuttle bus from hotel to campus	Sheraton Palo Alto
8:30am – 9:00am	Breakfast	Bldg. 520 Lobby
9:00am – 9:50am	Life as a Professor Panel Sean Follmer (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering), Ali Mani (Associate Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering), Debbie Senesky (Associate Professor, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics), Sindy Tang (Associate Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering)	Bldg. 520, Room 131
10:00am - 10:50am	Landing the Faculty Position Panel: Chelsea Finn (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science) Monroe Kennedy (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering) Michaelle Mayalu (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering) Renee Zhao (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering)	Bldg. 520, Room 131
11:00am - 11:50am	Perspectives from the Faculty Search Committee Panel: Matthias Ihme (Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering) Xiaolin Zheng (Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Dept. of Energy Resources Engineering) Hai Wang (Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering) ● Steve Collins (Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering)	Bldg. 520, Room 131
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Lunch with Jennifer Widom (Dean of the School of Engineering and Professor, Depts. of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering) and Faculty; Closing Remarks	Bldg. 320, Room 109
1:00pm - 2:30pm	Mechanical Engineering Lab Tours (optional)	See handout
3:00pm – 5:30pm	SLAC Tour (optional)