(This schedule is subject to change as the session progresses)

Week Lectures Work
Week1, August 21 (*) in-person only PhD program overview

  • Getting to know one another (use an elevator speech)
  • Program overview and requirements
  • Sharing of PhD journeys by faculty and invited guests
 In class HW

  • Construct your PhD Degree Plan
  • Construct your personal Web page to document your Ph.D. journey. One of the first place that people learn about your research is your personal webpage. It is important to construct one that will summarize your research interests, expertise, completed software projects, internships, presentations given, papers published and awards received
Week 2-3, August 28-Sept 4 (*) in-person only Research process

  • What is doctoral level research?
  • Overview of CS research process and ethnics
  • Choosing a research topic
  • Time management
  • Advisor Managment
  • Authorship and publication
  • Create your sample PhD degree plan
Time audit and sample degree plan (HW)

  • Keep a log of how you spent your time each day over the course of a week. You can write down for each hour the nature of the activity (work, recreation, social media). Through this exercise, you may discover what are the little wasted time "slices" that might turn up to be significant.
  • Post your top time management tips on canvas and share that at the next class time
  • Finish and submit your PhD Degree Plan
Week4-5, September 11-18 (*), in-person only, joined by CS5300 students on Sept 11 Doctoral faculty research presentation

  • 3-4 presentations per week
Document the following for each presentation in class:

  • What are the main research problems being addressed?
  • Why a particular research problem is significant?
  • How the research problem is being formulated?
  • What solutions were proposed?
  • How solutions were verified?
  • Record some potential ideas that you can use for a possible rotation project
  • Finalize your Rotation Project
Week 6 (*) Sept 25, in person only Systematic literature documentation, Graduate College Resources and critiquing a paper

 Critiquing Research Paper and setting up literature collection (HW)

  • Write and submit a one page critique/review of a given research paper
  • Set up your personal reference/literature collection
  • Enter details of your Rotation project in class spreadsheet
Week 7 (*), Oct 2, in-person Communicating your research

  • How to give an engaging research presentation
  • How to create an engaging poster
  • How to write a great research paper
  • Writing style
Communicating ideas

  • Work on a 20 minutes oral presentation (ppt) to the class on your work in progress rotation project in week 11-12
week 8, Oct 9 No class due to Fall break

No class

Week 9 (*), Oct 16, online only Systematic literature search

  • Attend the Library presentation and quiz via the library module on Canvas
 In class HW

  • Complete the library module quizz
Week 10 (*), Oct, 23, online only class Online CITI Research Misconduct Module

Complete the Responsible Conduct of Research curriculum at CITI website and upload your certificate to Canvas.
Week 11 Oct 30 (*) in-person Rotation project presentation

 Give a 20 +5 minutes oral presentation to the class on your rotation project
Week 12, November 6 (*) in-person Rotation project presentation

Give a 20 +5 minutes oral presentation to the class on your rotation project
Week 13, November 13, class do not meet Preparation for poster

Work on your elevator speech for your poster. Poster must be uploaded to the IEEE Conference wensite by Nov 28
Week 14, December 3 (*) Rotation project poster presentationi at STAR Park

Lunch at 12 noon and poster presentation starting at 1 pm