Pre-Faculty Preparation
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)