Tips for Students

It is recommended that current and prospective graduate students read the following in order to understand how the process of recruiting and retaining graduate students works in the CADCAM group. The issues compiled below are obviously not legally binding, but just facilitate understanding between decent human beings. If you do not agree with any of what is said below or think that it may not work for you, then feel free to discuss it with me before any commitments are made.

• Checklist for my commitments to graduate students as an advisor
• Checklist for prospective graduate students. Please DO NOT:
• Come and ask me for a graduate assistantship; rather convince me that I need to give you an assistantship.
• Come and ask me for a graduate assistantship without knowing what work I am doing.
• Come and ask me for a graduate assistantship if you are just looking to be supported financially (i.e., without the desire or interest to learn).
• Come and ask me for a graduate assistantship if you do not have the time or inclination to intelligently work hard.
• Checklist for current graduate students
• Recommended reading for prospective and current students
• Dr. Sapatnekar's checklist for writing papers
• Checklist for a good literature survey
• Two good articles that graduate students can gain from [1] [2].