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Graduate School Seminar: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Graduate School but were afraid to ask!!!

Join our informative seminar on graduate school to get all your questions answered. Topics covered include professor expectations, research, paper writing, and classes. Open mic session for any additional questions.

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Graduate School Seminar: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Graduate School but were afraid to ask!!!

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  1. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Graduate Schoolbut were afraid to ask!!! The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

  2. Format for Seminar • Presentations • Overview of prepared questions • Discussion of presentations • Addressing prepared questions • Open Mic Session Feel free to ask questions at any time VLSI D&T Seminar

  3. Overview of Questions • 11 excellent questions • As of Tuesday evening • Types of questions: • Professor Expectations & Work = 4 Qs • Research & Paper Reading = 4 Qs • Paper writing = 2 Qs • Classes = 1 Q VLSI D&T Seminar

  4. Questions on expectations • Q#1: How many working hours do you expect of our students being paid? • A) 1/2 time (20hrs/wk) • B) 1/3 time (13.3 hrs/wk) • C) 1/4 time (10 hrs/wk) • D) 1/6 time (6.66 hrs/wk) • Q#4: What does a professor really expect from the grad student working for him/her? • Q#5: What kind of characteristics do you expect for a good graduate student? e.g. self-motivation? thinking outside the box? etc….? • Q#6: As an advisor, what kind of relationship do you expect between you and your students? • A) Employer and employee • I pay the students, so they should work hard. • B) Teacher and student • I can understand the problems/circumstances students facing. • C) Father and child • I’m always willing to help students. • D) Others? VLSI D&T Seminar

  5. Questions on research • Q#7: When an idea comes up and there are few references on the topic, how can we explore deeper to know that the idea is useful? • Q#11: There is very little material available on the internet on some subjects. How and where do I search for more papers or literature on that subject? • Q#10: How can I find a problem to solve for research? • Q#8: When reading a paper, if there are many papers on the same topic, how can we get a quick idea of whether this paper deserves the spent time to read the whole paper or not? • Should we only read IEEE Trans or Journal papers in this area because journal papers always represent the best papers? • Is there a better, quicker way to qualify whether a paper deserves to read? VLSI D&T Seminar

  6. Questions on paper writing • Q#2: When we are trying to publish a paper, what should we be aware of to avoid plagiarism? • For example, sometimes two similar papers (same authors) are published at different conferences. • I heard a student is judged for plagiarism because of improper citations. • Are there any rules I can follow so that I don't get into trouble? • Q#9: It takes me a long time to write a paper. Are there any tips I can use to help my writing besides taking an English writing class? VLSI D&T Seminar

  7. Question #3 (classes) • A course requires a pre-requisite that I have not studied, what should I do? • Whom do I approach for help? TA? • E.g. CAD tools are used in most of VLSI courses & I don’t know CAD tools! VLSI D&T Seminar

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