Jorge Cham, who received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in '97, will be hosting "Piled Higher and Deeper: Lecture and Movie Screening with Jorge Cham" on Monday, December 5, 2011 at 6:30pm in the Clough Undergraduate Learning Center, Room 152.The lecture is aimed to provide advice to those who are among the millions of young adults that suffer from "post-bachelor disorder" - the "slump" many students face in graduate school.  A recent survey by U.C. Berkeley found that 95% of all graduate students feel overwhelmed, and over 67% have felt seriously depressed at some point in their careers. In this talk, Tech grad Jorge Cham recounts his experiences bringing humor into the lives of stressed out academics, examines the source of their anxieties and explores the guilt, the myth, and the power of procrastination.

Cham is currently the writer and artist of Piled Higher and Deeper, a comic strip about life, or the lack thereof, in academia. Often called "the Dilbert of Academia," PHD has appeared in the Stanford, MIT, Caltech and Carnegie Mellon newspapers, among others, and is published online where it receives over nine million page views a month from over 1000 universities and colleges worldwide.

In addition, Cham was a Research Associate at Caltech from 2003-2005 and obtained a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, specializing in Robotics.  His research at Caltech focused on Neural Prosthetics, specifically the design and manufacture of "Smart" Neural Implants, capable of driving micron-precision motors to actuate electrodes that autonomously find and optimize signals from live neurons.