Future Faculty Seminar CS 400 Spring 2005
When:		Wednesdays, 4:15pm - 5:05pm
Where:		Gates Computer Science Building, room B12 (in the basement)
Announcements:		send mail to majordomo@lists.stanford.edu with a body of "subscribe future-faculty-seminar"
Coordinator:		Jeff Klingner (klingner at stanford.edu)

This is a weekly seminar for engineering Ph.D. students who are considering an academic career. Its scope includes all the stuff that faculty do besides research. Ph.D. students generally get the opportunity to learn about choosing problems, doing research, publishing it, and presenting it, but they often get little chance to learn about grant writing, teaching, service, and other non-research professional activities. By hosting talks on these activities, this seminar attempts to (a) give students thinking about an academic career a better understanding of what professors do, and (b) help those who do choose to be professors to be good ones.

• research funding (sources, process, ethics, ...)
  
• grant writing
• the faculty hiring process (job search advice)
• the service role of faculty (service to department, university, society)
• tenure (what it is, how it works)
• time management for new faculty
• establishing a research program (getting students, using start-up funds wisely, ...)
• planning a new course
• preparing and giving a lecture
• mentoring & the advisor role
  
• politics in academia (department, university, funding, ...)
• preparing for an academic job while in grad school
• intellectual property issues: copyright,  licensing, starting companies
• balancing family & professional life
• ethical issues in academia

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