MSU Holding Career Workshop for Engineers in Academe

STARKVILLE, Miss. (Press Release) — The National Science Foundation is funding a free engineering career workshop next week at Mississippi State.

Titled “Career Development: From Senior Undergraduates to Navigating Assistant Professorship,” the various Jan. 29 and 30 sessions will be held in university’s Bost Extension Center auditorium.

The event is designed specifically for engineering majors and faculty members at any institution of higher learning, including senior undergraduates, graduate students, post-doctoral alumni and non-tenured faculty.

Increasing the number of underrepresented minorities in both graduate schools and academia in general is NSF’s goal in supporting workshops like this around the country, according to campus organizers.

Online registration is recommended at http://cals.msstate.edu/workshops/NSF/. The site also provides information on parking and hotel accommodations.

Mississippi State’s Bagley College of Engineering and agricultural and biological engineering department are workshop sponsors. Other grant collaborators include the university’s leadership and foundations department in the College of Education, along with the universities of Akron and Houston.

Faculty members from all three institutions will make presentations. They include:

— Linda Coats, professor of leadership and foundations at MSU;

— Teresa Cutright, associate professor of engineering at UA;

— Judit Puskas, professor of chemical and biomedical engineering, also at UA;

— Debora Rodrigues, UH assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering; and

— Lakiesha Williams, MSU associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering.

“Workshops will include sessions about future faculty roles and responsibilities, time management, college teaching, culturally responsive teaching, mentoring and career coaching, and the ins and outs of graduate school,” said Coats, who, with Williams, is co-project investigator for the NSF grant.

For more information, contact Williams at lwilliams@abe.msstate.edu or Coats at lcoats@colled.msstate.edu.

MSU, Mississippi’s flagship research institution, is available online at www.msstate.edu.

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