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GEARS:: June 2012
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Grads, Engineering, Academia, Research, Students. Life after landing a Tenure Track position in engineering. Thursday, June 7, 2012. I CAN HAZ MONEY! It seems like I've been waiting a billion years but I can finally say:. I CAN HAZ MONEY! Anywho, I'm off to the lab to see the sweet smell of progress! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Fumbling Towards Tenure Track. Life As An Outlier. Candid Engineer in Academia. Design. Build. Play. I CAN HAZ MONEY! GEARS is a tenure track assistant professor of Mechanical Eng...
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GEARS:: August 2011
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Grads, Engineering, Academia, Research, Students. Life after landing a Tenure Track position in engineering. Tuesday, August 30, 2011. The Economics of Academia (Part 1). Today, over at Engineer Blogs. I discuss a reader's question on the economics of academia. Essentially, the reader asks why can't we have 20:1 class ratios and lecturers being paid $100/hr and not worry about bringing in research money. Monday, August 29, 2011. Lesson Plans Down the Drain. So all that legacy code that I've built up over...
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GEARS:: August 2012
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Grads, Engineering, Academia, Research, Students. Life after landing a Tenure Track position in engineering. Wednesday, August 1, 2012. DrWife said something very interesting to me, which I thought warranted a blog post. First, some background. Yesterday, I was part of a large planning meeting involving multiple universities on a research consortium where I am the greenest person in the room. Unlike most junior. Employee, but I'm not a junior. Faculty." (emphasis is mine). Her statement really hit home, ...
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expecting junior professors to have a reputation | Stressful Times for Psyc Girl
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Stressful Times for Psyc Girl. Continually trying to survive the next level of academia. Expecting junior professors to have a reputation. August 5, 2015. August 6, 2015. TL;DR Summary: Generally tenure track professors get 5 years to prove they are worthy before they apply for tenure. That’s not necessarily long enough to establish a wide reputation. Reputation shouldn’t be a heavily weighted requirement of tenure. Here is the problem: I don’t really think I have a reputation. It’s possible I’m being se...
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GEARS:: February 2012
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Grads, Engineering, Academia, Research, Students. Life after landing a Tenure Track position in engineering. Friday, February 17, 2012. Why a Postdoc is basically needed in Academia. Today, over at Engineer Blogs, I discuss why a. Postdoc is pretty much mandatory to succeed in academia. In a nutshell, YIAs are, in my opinion, supremely biased towards faculty that have had long postdoc stints which screw over faculty such as yours truly who didn't postdoc. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Life As An Outlier.
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Periodic Boundary Conditions: November 2014
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Understanding materials science and engineering from the trenches of graduate school. Tuesday, November 4, 2014. So I've learned some things about how Microsoft Word's word count tool works, and may wind up re-adjusting my goals. For example, it counts every entry in a table of numbers. It also deals very oddly with symbols and equations. Ch 2 - 1,943. Ch 3 - 1,480. Ch 4 - 873. Ch 5 - 41. Paper 1 (Ch. 1) - 5,504. Paper 2 (Ch. 3) - 1,102. Paper 3 (Ch. 3) - 1,635. Paper 5 (Ch. 4) - 1,222. Life As An Outlier.
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Periodic Boundary Conditions: Progress: Day 3
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Understanding materials science and engineering from the trenches of graduate school. Tuesday, November 4, 2014. So I've learned some things about how Microsoft Word's word count tool works, and may wind up re-adjusting my goals. For example, it counts every entry in a table of numbers. It also deals very oddly with symbols and equations. Ch 2 - 1,943. Ch 3 - 1,480. Ch 4 - 873. Ch 5 - 41. Paper 1 (Ch. 1) - 5,504. Paper 2 (Ch. 3) - 1,102. Paper 3 (Ch. 3) - 1,635. Paper 5 (Ch. 4) - 1,222. Life As An Outlier.
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Periodic Boundary Conditions: NaThesisWriMo?
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Understanding materials science and engineering from the trenches of graduate school. Thursday, October 30, 2014. So if you have friends who write fiction, you've probably heard of National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo, where they all try to write 50,000 words during the month of November. Why November? Because the people who started it wanted to take advantage of the more miserable weather. Fair enough. Ch 1 - 561. Ch 2 - 1,650. Ch 3 - 1,185. Ch 4 - 36. Ch 5 - 41. Paper 1 (Ch. 1) - 5,504. Questions To...
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Periodic Boundary Conditions: January 2014
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Understanding materials science and engineering from the trenches of graduate school. Friday, January 24, 2014. So it's been nearly a year since I wrote anything. Not much has really changed, and I just didn't feel like repeating myself. I did get a SMART fellowship in the end, but it's a mixed blessing. I just want feedback. But apparently that's too much to ask. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Confessions of a Community College Dean. Safe Spaces at Commuter Colleges. Chemjobber po...
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Periodic Boundary Conditions: October 2014
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Understanding materials science and engineering from the trenches of graduate school. Thursday, October 30, 2014. So if you have friends who write fiction, you've probably heard of National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo, where they all try to write 50,000 words during the month of November. Why November? Because the people who started it wanted to take advantage of the more miserable weather. Fair enough. Ch 1 - 561. Ch 2 - 1,650. Ch 3 - 1,185. Ch 4 - 36. Ch 5 - 41. Paper 1 (Ch. 1) - 5,504. Questions To...
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