We are excited to announce the EGS & TBP Student Speaker Series organized by Tau Beta Pi and Engineering Graduate Symposium for the College of Engineering, a professional development event for EGS presenters to practice their presentation skills.

Training (for) Better Presentations is aimed at providing Michigan Engineering graduate students the opportunity to enhance their scientific communication skills, so they can learn to effectively convey the "big picture" value of their research to a diverse audience. It also aims to engage a dialog of science and engineering research among graduate students across the entire College of Engineering.

Intended as "teaching through practice" event, each session is structured to have EGS student speakers make a timed presentation on their graduate research to a broad engineering audience and a communications expert panel. Expert panelists will provide constructive feedback to the speakers (and the audience), highlighting the positive aspects of each presentation and also indicating opportunities for improvement. This structure will allow for the speakers to receive specific feedback on their communication skills, while also providing the audience with generalized guidelines for good scientific communication.

We will host two events, both 6-8 pm, at 1303 EECS (10/15) and 1005 DOW (10/18) respectively. Food will be provided!

If you are interested in participating as an audience, please sign up through our TBP website here:

https://tbp.engin.umich.edu/calendar/event/1412/

Note: you will be prompted to create a guest profile in order to sign-up for the event.