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Professional Development Team Certificate Information Sessions

Learn about opportunities to develop your professional skills through the Graduate School’s Professional Development Team offerings! This information session is designed to acquaint trainees with resources of the professional development team, including noncredit workshops, classes, and certificates including our Teaching Communication and new Graduate Writing certificate.  PD Team certificate directors will explain how to make…

Engineering Cafes: Writer’s Toolkit (part 1)

In this two-part workshop, we’ll focus on strategies for planning and managing a writing project, as well as fundamental tips for structuring the engineering writing. Participants will clarify their writing goals for the semester and leave with strategies to implement on current and future writing projects. We will use different genres of engineering writing projects…

Engineering Cafes: Writer’s Toolkit (part 2)

In this two-part workshop, we’ll focus on strategies for planning and managing a writing project, as well as fundamental tips for structuring the engineering writing. Participants will clarify their writing goals for the semester and leave with strategies to implement on current and future writing projects. We will use different genres of engineering writing projects…

Professional Development Team Certificate Information Sessions

Learn about opportunities to develop your professional skills through the Graduate School’s Professional Development Team offerings! This online information session is designed to acquaint trainees with resources of the professional development team, including noncredit workshops, classes, and certificates including our Teaching Communication and new Graduate Writing certificate. PD Team certificate directors will explain how to…

How to Use Learning Outcomes

In this two-part Zoom workshop, we will go beyond formulating learning outcomes to consider their use for both course planning and assessment. In the first session, we will use backward course design concepts to practice using outcomes as planning and assessment tools. In the second session, participants will share an activity and assessment sequence that…

Writing Workshop: How to Craft Abstracts and Introductions

Zoom

Where to start? In this workshop, we tackle the challenge of composing two key components of a research article: Abstracts and introductions. You’ll learn how to use and adapt several types of abstracts and the famous Create a Research Space (CARS) model for introductions.Open to all graduate and postdoc trainees.Participants may apply 2 hours towards…