Build your Boilermaker Pipeline

Event Description

Hosted by the Purdue Office of Engagement, Build Your Boilermaker Pipeline is a daylong strategy session supporting Indiana employers who seek to access the Purdue talent pipeline and are recruiting amidst global competition. Join us now to learn how to engage your company with students early and establish your campus presence — while there’s still time to be among the first to make your mark on Purdue’s first comprehensive, urban campus and beyond. ThE event is a great way to connect and network face-to-face with key Purdue faculty and staff.

Explore opportunities and strategies to leverage your company’s home-court location with Purdue innovation and student talent, including but not limited to:

Co-ops – up-level your engineering recruiting game through Purdue’s nationally renowned and highly ranked co-op programs

Internships – build your workforce pipeline with exceptional Purdue students that already call Indianapolis home

EPICS – advance your nonprofit mission via student design, engineering, and other community-based project partnerships

Vertically Integrated Projects – engage student talent via long-term industry research projects

The Data Mine – engage highly motivated students from diverse backgrounds in your organization’s work with the most valuable resource on Earth: data

GUESTS & HOSTS
Our guests are typically business owners, executives, recruiters and hiring managers, internship/co-op coordinators, technical leads, and project and program managers with ongoing Purdue innovation and/or recruitment needs in STEM and business disciplines.

Build Your Boilermaker Pipeline is hosted by Julie Rigrish, Southern Indiana Office of Engagement, and Virginia Vought, Central Indiana Office of Engagement, with the help of partners across Purdue. This program is a brain gain/retain effort, building bridges between Indiana-based employers and the pipeline of Purdue-trained talent, for a thriving Indiana.

AGENDA
9:00 AM
Doors open for optional continental breakfast and networking

9:30 AM
Program begins

9:40 AM
Session I: The Data – Where Boilermakers Land

10:00 AM
Session II: Engage Your Brand on Campus

11:00 AM
Guided Expo

12:00 PM
Network-Building Lunch

1:00 PM
Session III: Engaging Students with Your Workplace

2:00 PM
Session IV: Student Panel

3:00 PM
Program concludes

3:00 PM
Happy hour

For registration and more information, visit: https://www.purdue.edu/engagement/bybp/

Admission

Free, Registration Required