Faculty Preparation Workshops

Information assembled by Sylvia Herbert

General Programs:

• UC Berkeley Summer Institute for Preparing Future Faculty (1-month course, might only be for Berkeley students)

General Engineering Programs:

• Rising Stars Asia (women only)

• NextProf (geared towards women and minorities but doesn’t outright exclude men)

• Caltech Young Investigator Lecture Series (women and minorities only)

• WPI STEM Faculty Launch Workshop

• Future Digileaders (women only, research in areas including, but not limited to, security and privacy, human-technology interaction, systems and data science, artificial intelligence, robotics, networking, or communication and control)

Electrical Engineering and/or Computer Science Programs:

• iRedefine (geared towards women and minorities but doesn’t outright exclude men)

• Rising Stars in EECS (women only)

Mechanical Engineering Programs:

• Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering (women only)

Field-specific Programs:

• Robotics

  • Robot Guru (part of Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics)

  • RSS Pioneers (part of Robotics: Science and Systems conference)

• Control Systems

  • Meet the Faculty Candidate Poster Session (part of Conference on Decision and Control)

Books & Online Resources

• Rising Stars in EECS 2014 videos (Lectures, panels on academia and industry)

• Rising Stars in EECS 2017 videos (Lectures, panels on academia and industry)

• The 7 year postdoc (Great editorial; there are also talks on the subject from the author online)

• The Professor is in (Blog and book. A little dramatic for my tastes, but others have said it's useful)