2024 EECS Visit Days

Congratulations to You!

Congratulations on your acceptance to MIT! We invite you to visit the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to meet faculty and current graduate students and learn more about the research that is being carried out here. Your visit is also a chance to learn about the campus and the surrounding areas of Cambridge and Boston. Please, direct any questions you have to Liza Ruano (lmruano@mit.edu).

If necessary, it is important that you update your contact information (email) in your application. Each newly-admitted applicant will be sent an individual invitation with a unique link to sign up to attend the visit days event. Once registered, you will be able to indicate which faculty you wish to meet and which events you plan to attend.

Below is an outline of the 2024 EECS Visit Days.

Thursday, Feb. 29 arrival to MIT
Meet! Greet! Eat! 7:30pm ET to 9:30pm
R&D Commons (Bldg 32-4th floor) Stata Center
Sponsored by EECS Graduate Student Association (GSA)
GSA Student Guides leave the Marriott Hotel lobby at 7:00 & 7:20 & 7:40 pm
Friday, March 1: 7:45-8:00 AM Student Visitors meet in Marriott Hotel lobby
GSA Student Guides depart for Building 32-123
Friday, March 1, 2024
WELCOME to EECS at MIT*
AI & Decision-Making Faculty Head Antonio Torralba
MIT Lab Directors: Marc Baldo, Sertac Karaman, Marc Baldo, Tomas Palacios, Daniela Rus (master of ceremony)
8:45-9:30am

8:15 AM Arrival Bldg. 32 - Room 123 Breakfast in Vest Student Street

9:45am - Noon Technical Overview* THREE MINUTE MADNESS! Bldg. 45 - Room 230
Short Technical Pitches from Faculty and Research Staff (program of talks provided separately)
Topics include: Nanotechnology, Energy Systems, Bioelectrical Engineering, Circuits, Electronic and Photonic Devices and Materials, Quantum Science/Engineering/Technology, Theoretical Computer Science, Computer Systems, Information System Science, Computer Graphics and Vision, Human Computer Interaction, Natural Language Speech Processing, Robotics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks, Programming Languages, Architecture, AI for Healthcare and Life Science

12-1pm Lunch Bldg. 45 Lobby: grab a bag lunch and head out to research labs for mingling!
1-5pm
     One-on-One Meetings with Faculty and Research Staff (30 minutes each)
     Attend a graduate class
     Lab Open Houses and Lab Tours
     Research Group Open Houses
     Tour of Building 12 MIT.nano (Times TBD; sign-up required)

5-6 PM EECS RECEPTION and Pop-Up EECS Swag Shop
Hosted by EECS Faculty & Research Staff
Location Bldg. 45 Lobby

6:30pm Small Group Dinners (arranged separately)
*Recorded with closed-captioned video available March 8;
Saturday, March 2, 2024

8:30 AM International Student Welcome:
                    Zoom conversation among those located afar and around the world:
                    helpful information shared about moving to Cambridge, MA, USA for the first time!
                    Lots more info too! Zoom link: TBD

9:00 - 10:00 AM Breakfast in Bldg. 34 Room 401A/B
9:30 - 10:30 AM Affinity Group Welcomes
                    Pride Welcome for LGBTQIA+ and Allies Bldg. 36 Room 8th floor lobby
                    Black, Indigenous, People of Color Welcome Bldg. 36 Room 428
                    Grad Students with Children Welcome Bldg. 38 Room 466

10:30-noon Individual Meetings with the Faculty
                    One-on-one meetings with faculty to discuss research opportunities

11:30 - 12:30 PM LUNCH Bldg. 34 Room 401A/B

12:30-2pm The Road to the PhD:
                    Graduate Officer Professor Leslie Kolodziejski; Q & A, Bldg. 34 Room 401 A/B (Recorded)
                    What are the requirements for the SM and PhD degrees? What are the quals like?
                    How is graduate school paid for? What kind of support is available?
                    Answers to these questions and more will be offered by the Chair of the Committee on Graduate Students

2:00 - 3:00 PM Graduate Student Life Panel*
                    Hear from current EECS graduate students who will share their perspectives on
                    graduate student life while in the PhD program.
                    Visitors will be able to ask questions about all aspects of the journey:
                    the start, the middle and how to get to the end! Bldg. 34 Room 401A/B (Recorded)

3:00 - 3:30 PM Where to Live?*
                    Decisions, decisions: on campus or off-campus? and family housing? Bldg. 34 Room 401A/B (Recorded)

3:30 - 4:30 PM EECS Culture: Today & Tomorrow
                    Enjoy refreshments along with conversation focusing on the culture of our department.
                    What are our aspirations and plans for inclusive excellence? How does DEI shape our actions?
                    Bldg. 34 Room 401A/B

4:30 - 6:30 PM EECS Alumni Panel*
                    Hear from our EECS alumni for advice about the PhD journey. Watch recording from your
                    choice of comfortable location!

4:30 - 6:30 PM Graduate Women's (GW6) Welcome
                    Making Memories with New Friends and Location TBD

4:30 - 6:30 PM FACE PAINTING in Bldg. 36 - Room 428 & Bldg. 36 - Room 462

7 - 9:30 PM MIT Museum Social ( https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/on-now/exhibitions)
                    EECS takes over the MIT museum! A chance to mingle and explore together!

9:30 -? PM Optional After-Dinner Activities
                    Pub Crawl (departs from MIT Museum); arranged individually
                    or Late-night Board Games back at MIT, Bldg. 32 Room D463 (TBD)

Sunday, March 3, 2024

DEPART MIT, various times

GOODBYE...until we meet again! We hope your travels are safe!

Some of the activities you will participate in include meeting our faculty and research staff, our current graduate students and many of our administrative staff. You will have a chance to learn about our research activities in EE, in AID and in CS. You will have a chance to hear from our departmental leaders as well as the deans of the School of Engineering and the Schwarzman College of Computing, along with the directors of our research laboratories. We hope to tell you about EECS today, but also where we are headed and how you will be a part of the future of EECS.

The EECS Graduate Officer will provide details of the PhD program and highlight the many ways the department supports our graduate student body. The leaders of our various grad student organizations will share the many activities that you will be invited to and how they work hard to create community. Current graduate students will share with you their PhD experience and talk about living on and off campus, how to have fun in New England and metropolitan Boston. Current students will share with you the ups and downs of grad school in EECS at MIT and will talk about the value of diversity and inclusion, what MIT is like for an international student, or for a student with various backgrounds and identities. And you will also hear from EECS alumni who will expound on their experience and what opportunities they had while a PhD student, and what they are doing now in their careers.

We very much look forward to meeting you at our 2024 EECS Visit Days! See you soon! And congratulations again on your admission to EECS at MIT!

Check back frequently as we add more and more detail as our planning progresses!