From LINC
The following is a list of group policies meant to ensure we function well as a group. This will be handed to every incoming student. Here are a couple of my pet issues, please add things to this to help me build a whole document! We have already discussed most of these – please be sure to observe them closely
- Group meetings and individual meetings are compulsory. (if you are just a collaborator or an undergrad or co-advised or are heavily tied up and cannot make it, discuss it with me). Otherwise, please provide a reason to me each time you miss one of these. The individual meeting time can be dynamically changing or fixed during the week, it can be short (10 min) or a full hour, but it *has* to happen every week.
- I tend to cancel a big fraction of my meetings. I’m sorry, this is because I have a lot on my plate – I’m working on admissions, seminar series, hiring, symposium, a monograph, admin. committees and a bunch of other things as well. Still, please seek me out as we need to talk nevertheless.
- Please keep your deadlines – commit to a date and stick to it. The thing that gets me *really unhappy* is knowing that there is little to no progress made after we discuss the matter in great detail and set a timeline and plan. Again, be sure to meet all deadlines and you’ll save me a lot of stress.
- Every PhD student must have an active problem they are working on, and must have a journal paper draft in progress. Take as long as it takes to get it done to everybody’s satisfaction, but be working on it!
- If you are ECE student, you need at least 2-3 journal papers to graduate. This is not a group policy (personally I don’t think numbers are important, its quality), but it is a rule-of-thumb for most committees that will not allow you through if you don’t make this number. So be aware and act on this!
- Be sure to ensure every semester that your funding is in place. Ask Cristine (WNCG) or Charlotte (EDGE) if its in place, and if they say no or “something’s wrong”, come meet me and lets fix it.
- Actively collaborate on papers with colleagues, classmates and anybody else. If you are working on a paper where I am not involved, please leave me out of it. Unless I had a significant role to play in the paper, don’t mention me anywhere on it.
- Finally, please actively read papers – I should not be micromanaging your reading, please read papers across areas constantly.