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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:: 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 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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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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GEARS:: November 2011
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Grads, Engineering, Academia, Research, Students. Life after landing a Tenure Track position in engineering. Tuesday, November 29, 2011. Today, over at Engineer Blogs. I discuss how success breeds success. In research and discuss two methods to help enable your success in the lab and professionally. Monday, November 28, 2011. Grad Students: Conference Etiquette. Last week, I posted on Engineer Blogs. How I was thankful for conferences. Be approachable and outgoing. Be excited to talk about your work.
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GEARS:: September 2011
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Grads, Engineering, Academia, Research, Students. Life after landing a Tenure Track position in engineering. Tuesday, September 20, 2011. When you have a bunch of shit to do. My post for today, over at Engineer Blogs. Friday, September 2, 2011. First Classroom Lecture Report. Well, I've survived the first day! One student was brave enough to ask if I was serious and I responded by smiling gleefully and saying "Yes". I think they got the message. Be the reason why I'm not sleeping. First Day of Teaching!
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GEARS:: February 2014
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Grads, Engineering, Academia, Research, Students. Life after landing a Tenure Track position in engineering. Saturday, February 8, 2014. I've found the perfect cutoff filter! I had an epiphany the other day. I've realized that I have discovered one of the holy grails of engineering and it has been right under my nose for a while. I've found the perfect cutoff filter! It turns out that cutoff filter is Nanogears! Is this the norm for other professions? So what do you think is the norm for faculty? SnowU -...
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GEARS:: April 2014
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Grads, Engineering, Academia, Research, Students. Life after landing a Tenure Track position in engineering. Friday, April 18, 2014. So why doesn't this change? But, the minimum quality really doesn't hold weight when you compare it to a European thesis and their method. From a European university, It is just simply expected that you must. Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Postdoc vs Research Engineer. So this begs the question: is a postdoc worth the 112k-150k per year that I need to bring in to support them?
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GEARS:: October 2013
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Grads, Engineering, Academia, Research, Students. Life after landing a Tenure Track position in engineering. Wednesday, October 2, 2013. Long time. did you miss me? No, seriously. Did you miss me? If you didn't, that would make me very sad. Ok, enough pitying (for now). Actually, I'm the one that feels kinda sad because it has been over a year since the last time I blogged and frankly, I miss it. I'll have to be a little more cagey about what I say but that's not a big deal. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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