Category: Events

  • 2025 Summer Graduate Internship Program offered by Purdue IE

    2025 Summer Graduate Internship Program

    offered by Purdue Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering (IE)

    About the Program

    We are excited to announce the 2025 Purdue Edwardson School of IE Summer Internship Program for MS and PhD students from domestic and international academic institutions. This program is designed to provide graduate students with a valuable professional learning experience while fostering research sharing and collaboration within the Industrial Engineering community and related fields.

    Below is a list of research projects available for the program. Each project will result in one or multiple internship offers.

    Project 1 – A complex stochastic systems framework for space operations engineering
    Project 2 – AI-Integrated System Dynamics Model for Sustainable and Optimized Semiconductor Supply Chains
    Project 3 – Fundamental Limits for Graph Representation Learning
    Project 4 – Optimization for Robust Machine Learning
    Project 5 – Reinforcement Learning – Algorithm and Convergence Guarantees
    Project 6 – Reinforcement Learning for Stochastic Impulse Control Problems
    Project 7 – Robots that observe and learn to operate
    Project 8 – Sensors, Computer Vision, and AI techniques for human factors engineering
    Project 9 – Sustainable and High-Performance Polymer Composite for Additive Manufacturing
    Project 10 – Towards Parameter Free Decentralized Stochastic Optimization
    Project 11 – Urban consolidation centers in middle mile logistics

    How to Apply

    Application Deadline: January 15, 2025

    Application Package

    • Project title you are applying for
    • Statement of purpose
    • Resume
    • Transcripts (undergraduate and graduate, including the current one)
    • Preferred start/end dates: Internship duration must last at least 30 days and fall between May 25 and August 10, 2025.
    • Visa sponsorship: If you are an international student requiring a U.S. visa sponsorship, please inform us.

    Selection Timeline: Selected students will be notified by the end of January 2025.

    Application Submission: Please email your application to Aliya Scott at scottan@purdue.edu

    Benefits

    Stipend: $2,700/month
    Housing: Arranged and covered by the school
    Visa Processing Fee: Covered by the School
    Travel: Arranged and paid by the student visitor
    Meals: Arranged and paid by the student visitor (on-campus meal plans are available for purchase)

    Website: https://engineering.purdue.edu/IE/summer_intern
    For questions or additional information, please contact: Aliya Scott at scottan@purdue.edu

  • Mitacs Global Research Internship (GRI) Program

    Mitacs is a Canadian national not-for-profit organization funded by Canadian federal and provincial governments to drive research innovation and to facilitate mobility of research internships across borders.

    The Mitacs 2024 Globalink Research Internship (GRI) student call will be opening in mid-August 2023. Senior undergraduates are encouraged to apply. Successful applicants will travel to Canada between May and October 2024 to work with outstanding faculty and researchers at their host universities — and conduct hands-on research in their field of study!

    The Mitacs team will host a live session for students in Taiwan on July 27 (Thursday) at 20:00 Taiwan time. Please refer to the following link for further information and registration.

    Interested students could also:

    • Sign up to be notified by email as soon as the call opens
    • Get inspired by the stories of past GRI participants

    Get ready for an international experience like no other!

    Questions about the program or your upcoming application? Contact Mitacs at helpdesk@mitacs.ca.

  • A Presentation of Switzerland’s Higher Education System (Trade Office of Swiss Industries (TOSI))

    Trade Office of Swiss Industries (TOSI) will come to Chiao Tung Campus to provide a presentation of Switzerland’s higher education system to inform Taiwanese students about study opportunities, characteristics of the legal, political and cultural environment of Switzerland.

    Target Audience: All students
    Date and Time: 12:10-13:15, 31 March 2022
    Registration Deadline: 25 March 2022
    Venue: Seminar Room of Language Center at 3F, Chiaotung Campus Library (physical only)
    Registration Form:

    *The Info Session will be proceeded in English.
    *Light meal lunchboxes are offered to the first 30 registered students after the session.
    *For Covid-19 prevention, please wear a face mask.
    *Participants will be notified by email if there are any changes. Please make sure you enter a correct email address.

    Contact:
    Division of International Collaboration, OIA
    Ms. Michelle Tu
    Ext.: 31253
    E-Mail: michelletu@nycu.edu.tw

  • Journal of Management Studies Idea Development Workshop hosted by National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) (virtually)

    Journal of Management Studies Idea Development Workshop hosted by National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) (virtually)

    Friday, June 25, at 12:00 noon Taiwan, 5:00 am BST,

    Thursday, June 24, at 10:00 pm MDT, 11:00pm CST

     Do you have a research project that needs some friendly feedback from experienced editors?
     Do you want to brainstorm research ideas and pressure-test them?
     Ever wanted to see how scholars — who don’t know you at all — might react to your research project?

    If you answer yes to any of these questions, then you don’t want to miss the Journal of Management Studies Idea Development Workshop!

    As part of its mission to support the development of doctoral students and faculty, the Journal of Management Studies invites you to attend an online idea development workshop. The workshop will be led by JMS Associate Editors Gideon Markman (Colorado State University) and Kristina Potočnik (University of Edinburgh), with other JMS Editors participating.

    Schedule:
    Part I: Publishing Plenary (All timings below are in Taiwan timezone)
    12:00 PM – Opening, Welcome (Professor Jin-Su Kang, NYCU)
    12:05 PM – Introduction to JMS (Kristina Potočnik, JMS Associate Editor)
    12:20 PM -Theory & Contributions (Gideon Markman, JMS Associate Editor)

    Part II: Breakout Rooms
    1:00 PM – Breakout Rooms to Discuss Your Research Projects (facilitated by JMS Editors)
    2:30 PM – Debrief (Gideon Markman, JMS Associate Editor)

    Participation is free, but space to the 2nd part of the workshop – Breakout Rooms is limited on a first come first served basis. To register, please contact Joanne Cheseldine at business.jms@durham.ac.uk by 22nd June 2021 and include the topic of your research project.
    For the Breakout Room element of the workshop, we recommend preparing a 150-word abstract of your research project, further details will be sent for this if you receive a place.

  • 2020/6/18 Information Session of Dual-degree Program (École supérieure de commerce de Rennes, French)

    Information Session of Dual-degree Program

    École supérieure de commerce de Rennes, French

    Date: 18 of June
    Time: 12:00-13:10
    Place: M116, Management Bld 1

    Guest:
    Johnny Chi-Ju Wu, President, Taiwan Alumni Association

    Registration Open: Now – 10 of June, 2020.
    Please visit the website at https://forms.gle/AdhwS7y56m4oNtHGA to register your seat.

     

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  • World Climate Simulation on May. 10th. 2019

    World Climate Simulation

    Hosted by Cristina Primavera

    Date: May.10th .2019
    Time: 12:00-17:00

    Registration Open: April.29th.2019-May.5th .2019, please visit the website at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvGi1Ji082hwfMMxRPCsxRMT07rp0X1ZpIy-dEEUlNm8IOXg/closedform to register your seat. The workshop contains a total quota limited to 60 persons. Waiting-list student will be only informed if there’s a vacant open.

    Place: Room 701, Assembly Building1
    (1001 University Rd., Hsinchu30010, Taiwan)

    Info and inquiries: worldclimate.event@gmail.com

    World Climate is a climate negotiation role-playing exercise that explores the science and geopolitics of the United Nations international agreements on climate change and is grounded by a computer simulation of the dynamics of the climate system that has influenced the actual global negotiations.

  • 2018/4/30 Seminar Talk: Discontinuities, Competition, and Cooperation: Coopetitive Dynamics between Incumbents and Entrants

    Discontinuities, Competition, and Cooperation: Coopetitive Dynamics between Incumbents and Entrants

    • Speaker: Professor Frank T. Rothaermel
      • The Russell and Nancy McDonough Chair Professor in Business, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
      • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Fellow
      • Top 1% highly cited researcher in Economics & Business, 2015 and 2016 (Thomson Reuters)
      • Business Week, Prominent Faculty at Georgia Tech
    • Date: 4/30 (Monday), 2018
    • Time: 16:30 – 18:00
    • Location: Management Building II, MB110, Hsinchu Campus, NCTU