Got S.W.A.G.? (Secrets to Winning in Academia’s Game) Workshop – Friday, 3/30/12
Dr. Raheem Beyah and Dr. William Robinson, 2011 PROMISE SSI Mentors-in-Residence, will present their annual “Got S.W.A.G.?” workshop for advanced Ph.D. students, postdocs, and assistant professors, at the 2012 National Convention for the National Society of Black Engineers on Friday, 3/30/12.  Dr. Beyah and Dr. Robinson were former graduate students in the NSF FACES AGEP at Georgia Tech, and both are now tenured engineering professors at Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt respectively.  Graduate students who are going to be in Pittsburgh this week should make it a priority to attend this workshop.  Students who are not attending the NSBE conference, or who will not be traveling to Pittsburgh on Friday, should read the abstract so that you can take time to think about some of the issues that need to be addressed to be prepared for success in academe.
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2nd Annual Got S.W.A.G.? (Secrets to Winning in Academia’s Game) Workshop
38th Annual Convention
Westin Convention Center Hotel
Pennsylvania East Meeting Room
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Friday, March 30, 2012
3:45pm –  5pm
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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
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Title: Got S.W.A.G.? (Secrets to Winning in Academia’s Game)
Presenters: William H. Robinson, Ph.D. and Raheem A. Beyah, Ph.D.
Target audience: Assistant Professors, Post-docs, and Senior Ph.D. students
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Abstract:
Maybe you are on the tenure-track now, or you are planning to accept a tenure-track position soon. But do you have the SWAG to surf the unwritten rules of academia and win tenure at a university? You must avoid being a “one-hit wonder” by sustaining your excellence in research, teaching, and service. The workshop presenters have compiled a list of lessons they learned during the tenure-track process, and will share those experiences with the audience. We will discuss how to maximize your “street cred,” which translates to the impact of your research program. Is your research valued by the community? Can you obtain strong external letters for your dossier? High-impact publications and invited seminars are keys to visibility within the academic community. We will also discuss how to build your “entourage,” which translates to your research group. What is your recruiting and management style? Hiring and mentoring good graduate students is the lifeblood of scholarly impact. We will discuss how to “make it rain,” which means winning competitive grants and young investigator awards. Do the program managers at the funding agencies know you personally? Have you leveraged your first grant (i.e., your startup package)? Faculty members are evaluated by the amount of funds brought to the university. Finally, we will discuss “winning time,” which is the art of preparing your dossier. You must make your case to win tenure with strong summaries of your scholarly contributions in research, teaching, and service. We envision an interactive discussion with the audience in an effort to diversify the landscape of academia [1].[1] D. E. Chubin, G. S. May, and E. L. Babco, “Diversifying the engineering workforce,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 94, January 2005.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
William H. Robinson received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in 1996, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998 and 2003, respectively. In August 2003, Dr. Robinson joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010. His research explores hardware and software tradeoffs to improve system performance, system reliability, and system security. Dr. Robinson’s major honors include a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and selection for DARPA’s Computer Science Study Panel, both in 2008. Dr. Robinson is a Senior Member of both the IEEE and the ACM, and has additional memberships in ASEE and NSBE.

Email: william.h.robinson@vanderbilt.edu, URL: www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~robinswh

Raheem Beyah is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech where he leads the Communications Assurance and Performance Group (CAP) and is a member of the Communications Systems Center (CSC). Prior to returning to Georgia Tech, Dr. Beyah was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University, a research faculty member with the Georgia Tech CSC, and a consultant in Andersen Consulting’s (now Accenture) Network Solutions Group. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University in 1998. He received his Masters and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1999 and 2003, respectively. Dr. Beyah served as a Guest Editor for MONET. He is an Associate Editor of several journals including the (Wiley) Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal. His research interests include network security, wireless networks, network traffic characterization and performance, and security visualization. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2009 and was selected for DARPA’s Computer Science Study Panel in 2010. He is a member of NSBE, ASEE, and a senior member of ACM and IEEE.

Email: rbeyah@ece.gatech.edu, URL: www.ece.gatech.edu/cap

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Dr. Raheem Beyah and Dr. William Robinson, 2011 PROMISE SSI Mentors-in-Residence, will present their annual “Got S.W.A.G.?” workshop for advanced Ph.D. students, postdocs, and assistant professors, at the 2012 National Convention for the National Society of Black Engineers on Friday, 3/30/12.  Dr. Beyah and Dr. Robinson were former graduate students in the NSF FACES AGEP at Georgia Tech, and both are now tenured engineering professors at Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt respectively.  Graduate students who are going to be in Pittsburgh this week should make it a priority to attend this workshop.  Students who are not attending the NSBE conference, or who will not be traveling to Pittsburgh on Friday, should read the abstract so that you can take time to think about some of the issues that need to be addressed to be prepared for success in academe.
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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2nd Annual Got S.W.A.G.? (Secrets to Winning in Academia’s Game) Workshop
38th Annual Convention
Westin Convention Center Hotel
Pennsylvania East Meeting Room
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Friday, March 30, 2012
3:45pm –  5pm
**********************************************************************
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
—————————————————————————————
Title: Got S.W.A.G.? (Secrets to Winning in Academia’s Game)
Presenters: William H. Robinson, Ph.D. and Raheem A. Beyah, Ph.D.
Target audience: Assistant Professors, Post-docs, and Senior Ph.D. students
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Abstract:
Maybe you are on the tenure-track now, or you are planning to accept a tenure-track position soon. But do you have the SWAG to surf the unwritten rules of academia and win tenure at a university? You must avoid being a “one-hit wonder” by sustaining your excellence in research, teaching, and service. The workshop presenters have compiled a list of lessons they learned during the tenure-track process, and will share those experiences with the audience. We will discuss how to maximize your “street cred,” which translates to the impact of your research program. Is your research valued by the community? Can you obtain strong external letters for your dossier? High-impact publications and invited seminars are keys to visibility within the academic community. We will also discuss how to build your “entourage,” which translates to your research group. What is your recruiting and management style? Hiring and mentoring good graduate students is the lifeblood of scholarly impact. We will discuss how to “make it rain,” which means winning competitive grants and young investigator awards. Do the program managers at the funding agencies know you personally? Have you leveraged your first grant (i.e., your startup package)? Faculty members are evaluated by the amount of funds brought to the university. Finally, we will discuss “winning time,” which is the art of preparing your dossier. You must make your case to win tenure with strong summaries of your scholarly contributions in research, teaching, and service. We envision an interactive discussion with the audience in an effort to diversify the landscape of academia [1].[1] D. E. Chubin, G. S. May, and E. L. Babco, “Diversifying the engineering workforce,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 94, January 2005.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
William H. Robinson received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in 1996, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998 and 2003, respectively. In August 2003, Dr. Robinson joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010. His research explores hardware and software tradeoffs to improve system performance, system reliability, and system security. Dr. Robinson’s major honors include a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and selection for DARPA’s Computer Science Study Panel, both in 2008. Dr. Robinson is a Senior Member of both the IEEE and the ACM, and has additional memberships in ASEE and NSBE.

Email: william.h.robinson@vanderbilt.edu, URL: www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~robinswh

Raheem Beyah is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech where he leads the Communications Assurance and Performance Group (CAP) and is a member of the Communications Systems Center (CSC). Prior to returning to Georgia Tech, Dr. Beyah was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University, a research faculty member with the Georgia Tech CSC, and a consultant in Andersen Consulting’s (now Accenture) Network Solutions Group. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University in 1998. He received his Masters and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1999 and 2003, respectively. Dr. Beyah served as a Guest Editor for MONET. He is an Associate Editor of several journals including the (Wiley) Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal. His research interests include network security, wireless networks, network traffic characterization and performance, and security visualization. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2009 and was selected for DARPA’s Computer Science Study Panel in 2010. He is a member of NSBE, ASEE, and a senior member of ACM and IEEE.

Email: rbeyah@ece.gatech.edu, URL: www.ece.gatech.edu/cap

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Today’s Dissertation House mini-lecture for Wednesday, March 28, 2012 will be “Understanding your advisor and your committee”.  This session will be held from 1:00 – 2:00 PM in the Gates-Hillman 4405 Building on Carnegie Mellon’s campus in Pittsburgh.  All graduate students are invited (e.g., Pitt, CMU, students visiting for the NSBE conference, any discipline, any level, all backgrounds, part-time or full-time.) Light refreshments will be served.

Carnegie Mellon Gates Hillman Center
5000 Forbes Avenue,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Today’s Dissertation House mini-lecture for Wednesday, March 28, 2012 will be “Understanding your advisor and your committee”.  This session will be held from 1:00 – 2:00 PM in the Gates-Hillman 4405 Building on Carnegie Mellon’s campus in Pittsburgh.  All graduate students are invited (e.g., Pitt, CMU, students visiting for the NSBE conference, any discipline, any level, all backgrounds, part-time or full-time.) Light refreshments will be served.

Carnegie Mellon Gates Hillman Center
5000 Forbes Avenue,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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This afternoon at Carnegie Mellon University, Dissertation Coach Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale discussed the “10 Mistakes the Graduate Students Should Avoid” at the PROMISE AGEP/QoLT Center’s Dissertation House workshop. She discussed this post’s title (attributed to science.org), as she told students that they need to learn how to multitask.  Too often, students work on one thing and get stuck on that one thing (e.g. paragraph for a paper, method for an experiment, piece of code) and they are unable to work on anything else until they are satisfied with the outcome.  It is important to be focused, but there are often many things to do … or rather many things that must be done simultaneously.  Advanced graduate students have to write, look for employment, run experiments, complete literature reviews, satisfy grant agencies that fund the advisor’s research, and several also teach.  It is imperative to learn how to work on things in chunks.  Keep those fires burning!

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 for “Understanding your advisor and your committee” from 1:00 – 2:00 PM in Gates-Hillman 4405 on Carnegie Mellon’s campus in Pittsburgh.  All graduate students are invited (e.g., Pitt, CMU, students visiting for the NSBE conference, any discipline, any level, all backgrounds, part-time or full-time.) Light refreshments will be served.

Congratulations to the students who are participating in the Dissertation House and the associated activities at Carnegie Mellon.

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The Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Center at Carnegie Mellon & the University of Pittsburgh, and PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) are sponsored by the National Science Foundation.   Follow QoLT and PROMISE on Twitter: @QoLTCenter, @PROMISE_AGEP.


Filed under: Dissertation Completion, Dissertation House, PROMISE: Maryland's AGEP, UMBC Tagged: Carnegie Mellon University, DH, Dissertation, Dissertation House, Graduate School, National Science Foundation, National Society of Black Engineers, PROMISE AGEP, PROMISE: Maryand's AGEP, QoLT, Quality of Life Technology Center, Renetta Tull, University of Maryland Baltimore County, University of Pittsburgh, Wendy Carter-Veale ]]> This afternoon at Carnegie Mellon University, Dissertation Coach Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale discussed the “10 Mistakes the Graduate Students Should Avoid” at the PROMISE AGEP/QoLT Center’s... http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/this-dissertation-process-is-not-a-campfire-its-a-6-burner-stove/ https://my3.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/13242/guest@my.umbc.edu/a608e4b460749cc42b0e93c27ac2d0d8/api/pixel carnegie-mellon-university dh dissertation dissertation-completion dissertation-house graduate-school national-science-foundation national-society-of-black-engineers promise-agep promise-maryands-agep promise-marylands-agep qolt quality-of-life-technology-center renetta-tull umbc university-of-maryland-baltimore-county university-of-pittsburgh wendy-carter-veale Grad Student & Postdoc Development https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/gspd https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/066/4b2a0ea3017d894b96de7bd4a45729d5/xsmall.png?1781730740 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/066/4b2a0ea3017d894b96de7bd4a45729d5/original.png?1781730740 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/066/4b2a0ea3017d894b96de7bd4a45729d5/xxlarge.png?1781730740 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/066/4b2a0ea3017d894b96de7bd4a45729d5/xlarge.png?1781730740 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/066/4b2a0ea3017d894b96de7bd4a45729d5/large.png?1781730740 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/066/4b2a0ea3017d894b96de7bd4a45729d5/medium.png?1781730740 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/066/4b2a0ea3017d894b96de7bd4a45729d5/small.png?1781730740 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/066/4b2a0ea3017d894b96de7bd4a45729d5/xsmall.png?1781730740 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/066/4b2a0ea3017d894b96de7bd4a45729d5/xxsmall.png?1781730740 PROMISE @ UMBC: Support for Graduate Students 0 0 false Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:41:40 -0400 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:41:40 -0400 This dissertation process is not a campfire, it’s a 6 burner stove

This afternoon at Carnegie Mellon University, Dissertation Coach Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale discussed the “10 Mistakes the Graduate Students Should Avoid” at the PROMISE AGEP/QoLT Center’s Dissertation House workshop. She discussed this post’s title (attributed to science.org), as she told students that they need to learn how to multitask.  Too often, students work on one thing and get stuck on that one thing (e.g. paragraph for a paper, method for an experiment, piece of code) and they are unable to work on anything else until they are satisfied with the outcome.  It is important to be focused, but there are often many things to do … or rather many things that must be done simultaneously.  Advanced graduate students have to write, look for employment, run experiments, complete literature reviews, satisfy grant agencies that fund the advisor’s research, and several also teach.  It is imperative to learn how to work on things in chunks.  Keep those fires burning!

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 for “Understanding your advisor and your committee” from 1:00 – 2:00 PM in Gates-Hillman 4405 on Carnegie Mellon’s campus in Pittsburgh.  All graduate students are invited (e.g., Pitt, CMU, students visiting for the NSBE conference, any discipline, any level, all backgrounds, part-time or full-time.) Light refreshments will be served.

Congratulations to the students who are participating in the Dissertation House and the associated activities at Carnegie Mellon.

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The Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Center at Carnegie Mellon & the University of Pittsburgh, and PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) are sponsored by the National Science Foundation.   Follow QoLT and PROMISE on Twitter: @QoLTCenter, @PROMISE_AGEP.


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Participants will be given a campus card worth $20. Refreshments will be served.

These focus groups will consist of a small group discussion, led by a moderator. Your participation is greatly appreciated.

In order to participate, you must be currently registered for classes at UMBC and have experience using the Library. Current student employees at the UMBC Library are ineligible for participation.

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You may think that you’re not ready to make preparations for your proposal or dissertation, but at PROMISE, we believe that it is never too early to start thinking about how to communicate your research.  This week, regardless of your year in graduate school, 1st to final, come and join us! We are hosting a Dissertation House in Pittsburgh on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University.  In addition to hosting the students who applied in advance to be in-residence for the multi-day sessions of the full-scale Dissertation House, we invite graduate students in Pittsburgh to our “open sessions.”  All graduate students (all disciplines, all backgrounds, all levels) at CMU, the University of Pittsburgh, local campuses, along with visiting graduate students who are coming to town for the national NSBE conference or the NSBE Graduate School Conference (GSC) are invited to attend our  open (free) workshops and consultation hours.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Please let us know that you are coming by replying to this post or sending email to promisestaff@gmail.com.

Head Coach: Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale, Facilitator: Dr. Renetta G. Tull

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The Dissertation House is a program of PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP).  The Quality of Life Technology Center (QoLT)  (an NSF collaboration between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh) has partnered with PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP to sponsor Dissertation House activities in Pittsburgh. PROMISE is a National Science Foundation alliance between UMBC: An Honors University in Maryland (lead institution), the University of Maryland College Park, and the University of Maryland Baltimore.

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You may think that you’re not ready to make preparations for your proposal or dissertation, but at PROMISE, we believe that it is never too early to start thinking about how to communicate your research.  This week, regardless of your year in graduate school, 1st to final, come and join us! We are hosting a Dissertation House in Pittsburgh on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University.  In addition to hosting the students who applied in advance to be in-residence for the multi-day sessions of the full-scale Dissertation House, we invite graduate students in Pittsburgh to our “open sessions.”  All graduate students (all disciplines, all backgrounds, all levels) at CMU, the University of Pittsburgh, local campuses, along with visiting graduate students who are coming to town for the national NSBE conference or the NSBE Graduate School Conference (GSC) are invited to attend our  open (free) workshops and consultation hours.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Please let us know that you are coming by replying to this post or sending email to promisestaff@gmail.com.

Head Coach: Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale, Facilitator: Dr. Renetta G. Tull

——————————–

The Dissertation House is a program of PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP).  The Quality of Life Technology Center (QoLT)  (an NSF collaboration between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh) has partnered with PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP to sponsor Dissertation House activities in Pittsburgh. PROMISE is a National Science Foundation alliance between UMBC: An Honors University in Maryland (lead institution), the University of Maryland College Park, and the University of Maryland Baltimore.

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