Reflection after the town hall meeting

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Thank-you all for coming out to the town hall meeting. I hope it has served you in some way. I will be processing your input for the next few weeks, and sharing them with the faculty over the retreat. I look forward to starting a dialogue and working with many of you in the near future.

One thing that came to me after the session was this challenge of bringing all stakeholders of CHBE together to work towards common goals. The potential barriers that are present can be personal, situational, institutional, etc. I hope that we can work together to minimize many those barriers. We need all of you to recognize where you can make a difference and take charge.

To share my wish…. is to co-create an intellectual community that supports rich educational experience for all in CHBE.

I appreciated Vernique coming out and sharing her point of view. I loved the story of her being rescued when wind surfing, and tying it in with her message of knowing your goals – i.e., know where you are headed.

I hope the graduate lounge reno completes soon, giving us a change to gather again and celebrate.

The slides are posted in Doc Central which is accessible from logging into CHBE IT site. Thanks for those who came early to help set up. I was disappointed to see those who only came for food at the end.

Until next time!
Cheers,
naoko

3MT CHBE and MECH heat!

Have you heard of 3MT?

Three Minute Thesis is a research communication competition. CHBE is participating in the CHBE and MECH Multi-Departmental Heat prior to the G+PS competition in March.

Have you ever thought about preparing yourself for job interviews? Have you ever felt stuck trying to give an elevator pitch about your thesis? 3MT is one way of preparing talking points about your graduate work so that you will have it in your back pocket when you need it – perhaps more often than you think.

Come and join the challenge and fun!

For CHBE-MECH Heat, all graduate students from engineering departments, which do not have a home heat event, are welcome to join! If you do not know how 3MT works, no worries! We have a 3MT strategy session to clarify the workings of 3MT.

3MT strategy session for all engineering graduate students:

Date: Monday, February 2, 2015

Time: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Location: CHBE 3.04 (map)

Registration

Deadline: Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Registration method: simply email your name, which department you are from to jslee@chbe.ubc.ca

CHBE-MECH Heat Event Details:

Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Location: CHBE room 2.02 (map)

For more information, please visit the UBC 3MT official website: .http://3mt.grad.ubc.ca/schedule/

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UBC MEGA Mechanical Engineering Graduate Association

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