Chemical Engineering 690A - Fundamntals/Intelligent Theses

This course focuses on the "soft skills" critical to a successful path to a graduate degree in STEM. It is suitable for both MS and PhD students. The focus will be on Chemical Engineers, but topics covered in this course will likely be valuable to any STEM student. We will discuss and build skills necessary to 1) reading, critiquing, and writing excellent research papers, proposals, and conference abstracts; 2) making high quality figures and graphics/visualizations of data; 3) negotiating advisor-student relationships; 4) networking and finding jobs/internship; 5) effective teaching and mentoring strategies; 6) keeping a good lab notebook; 7) technology commercialization, and many more.