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Career Award Advice

Gain valuable insights and tips from Brian Denton, a successful industrial engineer and NSF CAREER awardee. Discover how to navigate the proposal process, write a compelling proposal, and make the most of the education component. Start early, seek advice, and think big to increase your chances of success.

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Career Award Advice

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  1. Career Award Advice Brian Denton Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering North Carolina State University

  2. My Background • PhD in Operations Research from McMaster University in Canada (2000) • Senior Engineer at IBM (2001-2005) • Senior Associate Consultant at Mayo Clinic (2005-2007) • New Faculty member, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, NC State University, Starting Fall 2007

  3. Warning • The following are just my opinions and what worked for me. • You should get advice from as many people as you can and then form your own opinions. I recommend talking to: • Your NSF program director • People that have served on CAREER panels in the past • Faculty in your department

  4. Things to do • Be lucky  • Read the proposal instructions very carefully • Talk to your program director • Go to the CAREER workshop • Start early • Send your proposal to people for advice, comments, and editing • Write about what you really want to do • Think BIG • Take the education piece very seriously

  5. Things to do • Look at other people’s proposals • Get strong letters of support • Use section headings and figures to make it easy for the reviewer to “flip through” • Think in terms of PhD theses, and include a lot of them • Provide a very long range career plan • Don’t worry if you aren’t successful. Most of the process is productive anyway.

  6. Things NOT to do • Wait until the last minute • Make the scope too narrow or too broad • Use technical language specific to your field • Make the education plan too generic • Submit before you are ready

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