Research Poster Competition & Experiential Learning Expo
April 27, 2024
We’re expanding our signature Research Poster Competition by adding a new expo component celebrating the many other types of experiential learning students enjoy at our college. Two fantastic activities in one.
Research Poster Competition
This is the 16th year for our signature competition event!
Graduate and undergraduate students will present their research posters to industry judges and receive valuable feedback.
Awards will be given for first-third place in the following categories:
- Undergraduate research
- Graduate research
- PLUS $1,000 Michael Krauski Memorial Award. Learn more.
+ NEW! Experiential Learning Expo
Meet our students at this super-networking session. Students will present posters to share their hands-on learning experiences, with no competition, just opportunities to connect and engage.
Categories include:
- Internships and co-ops
- Senior design
- Student organizations
- Study abroad
Deadlines
- Registration opens: February 5, 2024
- Posters due: April 7, 2024, midnight
- Judge registration closes: April 7, 2024, midnight
Agenda
7:30-9 am | Continental Breakfast |
7:30-8:15 am | Student Check-In |
8-8:45 am | Judge Check-In |
9-9:30 am | Welcome and Judge Orientation |
9:30-10:30 am | Research Poster Competition Judging |
10:30-11:30 am | Experiential Learning Expo |
11:30 am-12:30 pm | Lunch/Research Poster Competition Awards |
Students, this is your opportunity to present your work in poster form to a professional audience of engineers and computer scientists, as researchers do at conferences. Bring your resume; you’ll have plenty of opportunities to network with industry members.
Experiential Learning Expo participants: In addition to your poster, we welcome you to bring your model, project, student org vehicle or any other artifact that shows your work (and Milwaukee Engineer enthusiasm!).
Every student who presents a research OR Expo poster receives a premium North Face vest.
To participate:
- You must be a student of the College of Engineering & Applied Science.
- Each student must register and create a unique poster in one of the following categories:
- Undergraduate research (judged)
- Graduate research (judged)
- Co-op or internship (expo)
- Senior design project (expo)
- Student organization poster (expo)
- CEAS study abroad (expo)
- Research included in the RESEARCH poster must be extracurricular and not related to a required course.
- Each poster must be submitted and presented by one student. If a group worked on a project, each student can enter their own separate poster that addresses a unique attribute of the research or their part of the project.
- No duplicate work accepted. If a poster was submitted for this competition in the past, it can’t be submitted a second time unless there is substantial advancement to the research and findings.
- The following items must be submitted by the registration deadline:
Judges from Industry Needed.
If you’d like to support our students, consider being a volunteer judge. A few hours of your time will have a big impact.
No previous judging experience is needed. You might even meet your next employee or inventor.
Details:
- Your Day: Start with a continental breakfast, then judge a round of student research posters, network with students at the experiential learning expo, and wrap it up with a complimentary lunch/awards ceremony. And our gratitude!
- Judging: You will be provided with a list of the student research poster titles prior to the event in case you’d like to review them early. When you check in you’ll choose four undergraduate or graduate students to meet with in one-on-one fashion.
- Experiential Learning Expo: We ask that you visit and provide feedback to at least four students at the experiential learning expo. They’ll bring their resumes; that’s why we’re calling it super-networking.
Congratulations to the winners (and their faculty advisors) of the Student Research Poster Competition. The work of every student who entered in the competition is worthy of acknowledgment. Their research addresses many of society’s pressing challenges and illustrates the curiosity, passion and abilities of students who attend one of the nation’s top research universities.
Thank you also to the judges and the many sponsors who helped make this event possible.
Sponsor our event
Contact Michele Weinschrott, Director of Deveopment; weinschr@uwm.edu
Other questions?
Contact Michelle Boehm at boehmmm@uwm.edu