About the Event


Some General Info

The goal of Career Days is to bring together design professionals and design students to discuss living and working as a designer in today's world. The event includes a night of meeting people, touring our School, and viewing student work, a roundtable discussion the next morning, and interviews throughout the day.

The School of Design will provide lunch, snacks and beverages during your time on campus. While the schedule is fairly tight, we do encourage you at some point to take a walk through campus to visit such places as the College of Fine Arts, the Fence, the Regina Miller Gallery, or the University Center. Should you require email or internet access, guests are invited to use the Reese Computer Laboratory, located in the lower level of the School of Design.


Schedule

  Thursday   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM   Networking Event
  Friday 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM   Roundtable Discussions
    10:00 AM - 10:30 AM   Break
    10:40 AM - 12:00 PM   Interviews
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM   Lunch Break
    1:00 PM - 2:20 PM   Interviews
    2:20 PM - 3:00 PM   Break
    3:00 PM-4:00 PM   Interviews




Roundtable Overview

Informal roundtable discussions will focus on discipline specific issues (communication, interaction, industrial design) and provide an opportunity for you to share your experiences and thoughts on contemporary design issues and the transition from student life to careers in professional design.

The format for these roundtables will include general discussion with a moderator and direct interaction with students. Some topics to be addressed may include:
  • In design school, I never learned...
  • The most valuable thing I've learned since graduation...
  • The worst project or design experience I've had...
  • The first thing I did after I graduated was...
  • My worst professional mistake was...
  • The best decision I've made professionally was...
  • A chance I took that really paid off was...
  • Challenges in working with other disciplines are...

If you have any more questions, feel free to contact Robert Swinehart, or Mark Baskinger, our faculty contacts.