Link Lab Professional Development
Fall 2023
- August 30 or 31 - Etiquette Reception & Dinner (RSVP required)
- September 8 - "What I Wish I Knew Earlier About Research" - Ben Calhoun
- September 12 - Industry-Link Lab Reception & Demo Night
- September 15 - Student Headshots (inside)
- September 15 - LinkedIn Best Practices - Priya Date
- no seminar on September 22 (Friday home football game)
- September 29 - Student Flash Talks
- October 6 - Student Headshots (outside)
- October 6 - Technical Figure Design - Dan Quinn
- October 10 - Industry-Link Lab Reception & Demo Night
- October 11 - Research Day
- November 3 - Tips, Tricks, Tools
- November 10 - Designing Your Online Portfolio/Personal Website
Link Lab Summer Series
- June 7 Making the Most of Summer as a Graduate Student (Brad Campbell)
- June 14 Leadership (Jack Stankovic)
- June 21 Tips for Successful Life (Brian Park)
- June 28 Publishing (Venkat Lakshmi)
- July 5 No seminar due to the holiday
- July 12 Managing Efficiency, Time, and Productivity (Laura Barnes)
- July 19 Finding the ‘Why’ of Your Research (Madhur Behl)
- July 26 The Impact of AI, ChatGPT, etc. on the Workplace (Madhur Behl)
Spring 2023
- February 3 - Project Management (Sam Lake)
- February 10 - Writing (Journals/Publications – Jack Stankovic & Grants – Ben Calhoun)
- February 17 - Ethics in Engineering (Ros Berne)
- March 31 - Tips, Tricks, Tools (Students)
Fall 2022
- September 2 - Research Best Practices - "What I Wish I Knew Earlier About Research" (Professor Ben Calhoun)
- September 9 - Collaboration / Collaborative Research (Faculty Panel: Dan Quinn, Sara Riggs, Lu Feng, Jack Stankovic) Details of the Link Lab Collaborative Research Initiative will be shared!
- September 16 - Presentation Best Practices (Professor Arsalan Heydarian)
- September 23 - Technical Figure Design (Professor Dan Quinn)
- October 21 - Research Tools and Hacks (Professor Matthew Bolton)
- October 28 - Teaching (Lynn Mandeltort)
- November 4 - Link Lab Research Incentive Proposal Pitches (Industry/Faculty Panel)
- November 11 - Ethics Panel (Geoffrey Schaefer (Booz Allen Hamilton), Rider Foley (UVA Engineering - Science, Technology, and Society), Steve Johnson (UVA McIntire School of Commerce))
Spring 2022:
- February 4th (12pm - 1pm) Creating a Personal Brand and Leveraging Tools to Marketing Yourself for Success
- February 15th (4pm - 5pm) – Resume/CV Workshop
- February 16th (12pm - 1pm) Preparation for Student Flash Talks – Tips, Tricks, Practice, and Real-Time Feedback
- February 17th (3:30pm – 4:30pm) – Student Flash Talks
- February 18th (12pm - 1pm) LinkedIn Workshop
- March 1st (4pm - 5pm) – How to Design and Review Research Posters
- March 15th (4pm - 5pm) – How to Network In-Person at Conferences
- March 24th (4:30pm - 5:30pm) – Link Lab Student Seminar
- March 31st (12:30pm – 1:30pm) – Student Wellness Break
- April 12th (4pm - 5pm) – Cultivating a Long-Term Network
- April 15th (3pm - 4pm + dessert reception to follow) - Industry Technical/Career Panel
Fall 2021:
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September |
3 |
Overview of the fall research seminar programming, Q & A, social/networking time, and snacks! |
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September |
10 |
Professor Ben Calhoun: "What I wish I knew earlier about research" |
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September |
17 |
Professor Arsalan Heydarian: “Strategies for Effective Flash Talks” |
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September |
24 |
Faculty Flash Talks |
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October |
1 |
Student Flash Talks & Poster Session |
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October |
8 |
Professor Jack Stankovic: "Invention - You Can Do It" |
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October |
15 |
Professor Homa Alemzadeh: "Dissecting a Research Paper" |
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October |
22 |
Guest Speaker - Kelly Cunningham (Graduate Writing Lab Director): "Planning for Productive Writing" |
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October |
29 |
Professor Dan Quinn: "Technical Figure Design" |
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November |
5 |
Guest Speaker - Professor Cady Garey (UVA Drama Dept): Public Speaking / Presentation Skills |
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November |
12 |
Professor Jon Goodall: Funding |
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November |
19 |
Guest Speaker - Marc Oettinger (UVA Licensing & Ventures Group): Intellectual Property Primer (IP) for UVA Link Lab |
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November |
26 |
THANKSGIVING BREAK |
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December |
3 |
Faculty Panel: The Peer Review Process |
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December |
10 |
Guest Speaker - Julia Lapan (SEAS ECD): Career Competencies Employers Want and How to Plan Now |
Career Seminars
The Link Lab will be hosting the following academic and industry career seminars:
"Demysitfying the Academic Job Search" with Professor Brad Campbell:
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October |
28 |
Overview (3pm - 4pm) Conference Room 211 |
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November |
3 |
Applying (3pm - 4pm) Conference Room 211 |
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November |
11 |
Interviewing (3pm - 4pm) Conference Room 211 |
A Job Search Talk with Julian Lapan, Director for Engineering Career Development:
| December |
10 |
Skills Needed for Employment (1pm - 2pm) LL Arena |
Other offerings to support your professional development and technical skills training can be found here:
- Research Data Services + Sciences Library Technical Training Workshops (including sessions on Python, R, Qualtrics, Tableau, and more)
- UVA Engineering Writing Lab (including sessions on sentence structure, writing introductions, integrating sources, writing abstracts, and more)
- PhD Plus (including sessions on graduate school foundational skills, communicating, innovation/commercialization, and more)
- Center for Engineering Career Development(including career fairs and assistance with resumes, interviewing, career exploration and more)