ECS 293 - Winter 2008 How to be a Successful Graduate Student

Announcements

• This page (and class) under construction. Topics will depend somewhat on class interests (and how many took this last quarter). Let me know any topics you would like to discuss.
• Class meets M 3:10p-4:00p 1130 Hart

Syllabus, Readings, and General Information

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• syllabus - Possible topics
• Grading is S/U. Primarily class participation, a few assignments

Last Quarter Handouts

• Writing links and handouts:
• Purdue On-line Writing Lab
• Writing with sources
• Don Meisenheimer gave a useful writing talk . His handout is below (in word)
• Prof. Gertz: finding useful information slides
• writing tips (word) - Handout from Don Meisenheimer
• writing tips (pdf) - slides from Prof. Mukherjee's writing talk
• li> Slides from Prof. Devanbu's talk on Software Eng and writing a conf. paper
• Devanbu slides
• Slides from Prof. Rogaway's talk (last year) in pdf January 18 2005

Old Syllabus,

• lectures - Topics from 2006 schedule
• lectures - topics from fall 2004
• lectures - Summary of past and projected lectures

Supplemental Readings

Useful links

• Schedule of Brown Bag lunches on Professional conduct
• Class web page from F07 (Farrens)
• grad school survival guide
• General PhD advice
• How to be a Grad. Student
• General advice, grads &UGs (MIT)
• How to be a leader in your field
• Networking
• Bad Review = Turing award?
• Talks by Dave Patterson (inluding how to have a bad career)
• Grad. study: a survival manual (O' Leary)
• Graduate School Survival Guide (stanford)
• Doctor Dropout
• Preparing Faculty (links)
• useful links
• links from Till Stegers
• advice on research and writing
• math links, general links
• transition to grad student
• How to be a referee (also good advice on reading a research paper)
• Bai's links (scientific computing
• Writing Systems and Networking Articles
• Giving a bad power point talk