Suggested Reading

Week 1: Academic Job Search

Agre, Phil, "Networking on the Network: A Guide to Professional Skills for PhD Students," Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003 http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/network.html
Carter, Ralph G. and Scott, James M., "Navigating the Academic Job Market Minefield," University of Nebraska at Kearney and Texas Christian University, 1998
http://gradschool.about.com/ (just enter the title in search box to find it)
Dantzig, Jonathan, "Landing an Academic Job: The Process and Pitfalls," Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, 2004 http://quattro.me.uiuc.edu/~jon/ACAJOB/Latex2e/academic_job.pdf
Ernst, Michael, "Getting an Academic Job," 2000
http://pag.lcs.mit.edu/~mernst/advice/academic-job.html
Heiberger, Mary and Vick, Julia Miller, The Academic Job Search Handbook,
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996
http://www.netlibrary.com (just enter the title in search box to find it)
- § Section I: What You Should Know Before You Start
- § Section II: Planning and Timing Your Search
Reis, Richard, Tomorrow's Professor, IEEE Press, 1997
- § Chapter 2: Science and Engineering in Higher Education
- § Chapter 7: Identifying the possibilities
- § Chapter 8: Applying for Positions
- § Chapter 9: Getting the Results You Want
Zurbuchen, Thomas, "On the Role of the PhD or Post-doc Advisor in Your Search for a Professorship"

Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty, 2004 http://www.hhmi.org/grants/office/graduate/labmanagement.html
- § Chapter 6: Time Management

Barker, Kathy, At the Helm: A Laboratory Navigator, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2002
- § Pages 145-177: Make Research the Foundation

Wankat, Philip, The Effective, Efficient Professor, Allyn and Bacon, 2002
- § Chapter 2: Missions, Goals and Activities

Reis, Richard, Tomorrow's Professor, IEEE Press, 1997
- § Chapter 10: Insights on Time Management
- § Chapter 12: Insights on Research

Feibelman, Peter, A Ph.D. Is Not Enough, Perseus Publishing, 1994
- § Chapter 8: Establishing a Research Program

UM Research Office
Find resources such as training, conference information, funding sources, proposal writing guide, etc. http://www.research.umich.edu/

ASEE Presentation, "Running a Research Program," March 2004 http://www.engin.umich.edu/soc/asee/ffs4_2004.pdf

Friedland, Andrew J. and Folt, Carol L., Writing Successful Science Proposals, Yale University Press, 2000

Reis, Richard, Tomorrow's Professor, IEEE Press, 1997
- § Chapter 12: Insights on Research

Feibelman, Peter, A Ph.D. Is Not Enough, Perseus Publishing, 1994
- § Chapter 7: Getting Funded

Davidson, Cliff and Ambrose, Susan, The New Professor's Handbook, A Guide to Teaching and Research in Engineering and Science, Anker Publishing Company, 1994
- § Ch 8: Getting Funding for Research Projects
- § Ch 9: Writing Research Proposals
- § Ch 10: Reviewing Research Proposals and Papers