First Steps in ProFF Second Meeting w / ProFF Students

1. First Steps in ProFFSecond Meeting w/ ProFF Students B.Y. Choueiry (Chair), Hong Jiang, and Witty Srisa-an Computer Science & Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln ProFF: Second Meeting w/ Students

2. Outline • Welcome • New forms • Travel grant • Memorandum of understanding • Monitoring your own progress • Teaching questionnaire • CSE ProFF • Status Update • Summer session: Professional Development • Addendum: useful slides from first meeting ProFF: Second Meeting w/ Students

3. Two New Forms • Memorandum of Understanding • Formal admission to ProFF • Commitment of you & your advisor • Travel Form • Top conferences mainly • Add to your resume after you’ve received funding ProFF: Second Meeting w/ Students

4. Monitoring Your Own Progress • Revise your resume every 3—4 months • Add to your calendar • Revise the document • Show to your adviser & discuss progress w/ him/her • Identify weaknesses, solicit adviser for help • Papers • Awards • Professional service: review, initiatives @ major conferences • Teaching & mentoring other students (add to your resume) • Hints: use list of suggested actictivities (ref. 1st meeting) • Add ProFF& travel grant to your resume ProFF: Second Meeting w/ Students

5. Teaching Questionnaire • What counts to be hired • Publications • Awards • Visibility (impact, talks, involvement in conference organization, reviews) • Teaching • Teaching • Mentoring other students • Formal teaching: instructor on record for a class • We are not really sure what is beneficial for you • Basic courses (easy to prepare, hard to handle) versus advanced (hard to prepare, easy to handle) • Summer (short, intensive) versus academic year (full experience, distractive) • Please • List all your preferences but think about workload and distraction • Give as many comments as you can, so that we may be inspired.. • Questions? ProFF: Second Meeting w/ Students

6. Status Update • Currently, 8 students in ProFF ProFF: Second Meeting w/ Students

7. UNL’s PFF • 1 Summer Session • 1 mentoring experience during Fall/Spring ProFF: Second Meeting w/ Students

8. Today’s Main Discussion • Your feedback about UNL’s PFF • What you liked • What you did not like • What was missing… • Goal: Organize a special summer session ProFF: Second Meeting w/ Students

9. UNL’s PFF: Your Feedback • Was UNL’s PFF session useful to you? Was it time well spent or do you regret being involved? • Considering the topics that were discussed during the Summer 2010 PFF Session, list all questions that you had but were not fully answered. List as many of those questions as you can remember. • Can you think of any topics that were notdiscussed during the Summer 2010 PFF Session and that you would like us to discuss during CSE summer workshop? • List what was good, what was bad, what was not useful, what was not sufficient, what was missing, what was well covered and needs not be discussed again, etc. ProFF: Second Meeting w/ Students

10. Useful Slides from Our First Meeting ProFF: First Meeting w/ Students

11. (Tentative) Goals of ProFF • Seek & succeed in a faculty position in a top research institution • Give you the tools to land your dream job • Give you the skills to become • A top researcher in your community • A top teacher in your classes • A top mentor for your students • A top colleague in your department • A top citizen in your institution ProFF: First Meeting w/ Students

12. Your Opinions: Course or Seminar? ProFF: First Meeting w/ Students

13. Your Opinion: Receiving Support ProFF: First Meeting w/ Students

14. Your Opinion: Experiencing the Job ProFF: First Meeting w/ Students

15. Common-Trunk Activities • Mandatory • Enroll in UNL’s Program for Future Faculty (PFF) • Participate in CSE ProFF Two-Day Workshop • Attend at least one grant-writing workshop offered by UNL. • Present a paper at a topconference and/or a research seminar at a research institution • Attend the day-long Research Ethics Workshop @ UNL’sKutak Center • Strongly advised • For advanced female students: Attend CRA-W mentoring workshop for junior faculty • For advanced students: Attend CRA/NSF mentoring workshops for junior faculty • Be trained in reviewing papers • Participate in at least one grant writing activity • For later • Activities to improve communication skills, writing skills, presentation skills ProFF: First Meeting w/ Students

16. Menu-Based Activities: Mandatory • Have an external, leading scientist on Supervising Committee. • Be paired with a leading scientist from another institution to serve as mentor. The mentor can be the same person as the external member on the Supervising Committee • Required & supported to travel to their mentors’ institution to give a seminar about their research • Mentor to be invited for the CSE Colloquium Series • Students must attend all CSE Colloquia given by distinguished speakers (unless excused). • A special session with distinguished speakers to • Talk to students in ProFF about “Research Experience @ My Institution,” “How to Apply for a Faculty Position @ My Institution” • Must (rotate to) take the Distinguished Speaker out for a meal • Must review each other’s papers (and grants) in a rotation scheme to expand their knowledge and improve their writing skills ProFF: First Meeting w/ Students

17. Menu-Based Activities: Mandatory • Attend one top-ranking conference in North America and/or one top-ranking conference overseas provided they have submitted a ‘competitive’ paper to each of conferences (even if the paper was declined). • Foreign students (or US students who need it) should have the opportunity to work with a technical writer either in a group or on an individual basis. • Intra-ProFF networking: • Funds to meet for a meal or an extracurricular activity that does not require much organization once or twice per • Two students from the program can take up the organization of the activity every semester (with the help of a supervising faculty). ProFF: First Meeting w/ Students

18. Menu-Based Activities: Mandatory • One student can organize • CSE Colloquium Series along with the series’ faculty chair. The student should do the bulk of the work while supervised by the chair. Each semester there could be two students involved in the task. • Or, the Research Landscape Seminar. The goal of the seminar is to inform graduate student about the research activities of (a subset of) the faculty and the advanced courses they teach. • Classroom experience • Taught a 200/300-level class and/or laboratory/recitation in their area • Graded a 400/800-level course ProFF: First Meeting w/ Students

19. Menu-Based Activities: Strongly Advised • Mentor another beginning PhD/master’s student or a top undergraduate student (becoming an advisor) • Attend at least one meeting of each one of the committees in the department, especially the Faculty Search committee • Spend a summer in a research lab or another institution, perhaps at external mentor’s institution • Becoming an advisor: A student at the end of the program could serve as a mentor to a student entering the program or another doctoral student not in the program • Teaching: Helped organizing a 990-level course. ProFF: First Meeting w/ Students

20. Menu-Based Activities: Advised • Draft 2 ‘national’ proposals by the end of the program and before graduation to strengthen their chances of being hired by a top-50 institution • At least one should be a research proposal (not teaching) • After writing their proposals, a technical writer will review and criticize it on an individual basis or as a group exercise (and as long as COI and confidentiality are not an issue) ProFF: First Meeting w/ Students