Engineering Weekly

Engineering Weekly is a weekly newsletter produced by the marketing and communications team in conjunction with the dean for all College of Engineering faculty, staff, graduate students and postdocs. It is the college’s main source of internal news, information and events.

To submit an announcement or an event for Engineering Weekly, fill out our submission form by Friday at 10 a.m.

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A brief overview of each section of the newsletter and criteria for each is listed below. Please note that these are guidelines, and exceptions can be made at the discretion of the college's Communications and Marketing team and the dean.

General Guidelines

Announcements will run a maximum of three issues in a row. Most are included between 1 and 3 times, depending on the news.
Categories and order of categories can change from week-to-week, depending on the news.

Mark You Calendars

Features 3-4 upcoming communitywide events

Take Note

Timely news from departments that the community should be aware of. Examples may include:
- IT announcements about outages, phishing scams and new available technology
- Facilities announcements about building closures or renovations
- Procurement team reminders and deadlines
Consists of a headline and up to three lines of text

Stay Up to Date

College Updates
- Announcements consist of a linked headline and up to three lines of text
- Any timely news from around the college that’s relevant to faculty or staff from more than one department or unit. Examples may include:
  - Calls for college volunteers at the campus
  - Arrivals or departures of Dean’s Office leaders, department chairs or department Chief Administrative Officers
  - Workshops and information sessions for faculty and research staff
  - Event recaps with links to either event photos and/or video
  - Obituaries
- Campus Updates
  - Timely news from around campus. Examples may include:
  - Campuswide events
  - Announcements and resources from Graduate Studies, Office of Research or other units
  - Campus leadership changes
  - Systemwide resources or funding opportunities

Celebrate Your Colleagues

Includes COmEt COmmEndations and Laurels
- COmEt COmmEndations
  - Runs once on the first Tuesday of the month
  - Highlights the winners for the previous month
- Laurels
  - Faculty and staff awards and grants over $1M
  - Only run once
  - Included
    - Faculty and staff awards given by the college, the campus or an external organization
    - New grants over $1M
    - Winners of the Ghausi Medal, Gibeling Award and Munir Award for undergraduate, M.S. and Ph.D. students, respectively
  - Not included
    - New grants under $1M
    - Student awards and competitions (except Ghausi Medal, Gibeling Award and Munir Award)
    - Department-level faculty and staff awards
    - All publications, even in a high-impact journal or if it’s selected as a journal cover
    - Being named to an editor position at a journal
    - Taking a leadership role in a society or a conference
  - If your news doesn’t fit the criteria of this section, and it’s likely still worth publicizing, contact the marketing and communications team to see how best to promote it.

Explore Seminars and Events

Seminars from the college’s departments and across campus and non-seminar events are included in these sections.
All seminars and events run at least one week leading up to the event. This may be extended to two weeks, depending on the number of events and opportunities for promotion before the event date.
To include in Engineering Weekly, seminars and events must be submitted to the college's events calendar.

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