During Orientation, incoming students will participate in faculty research presentations from all faculty who have GRA positions available. The advisor selection process formally begins at this event. Following orientation, students will visit with faculty and "interview" research groups to collect as much information about the available projects and the groups/faculty as possible. Students are encouraged to meet with at least 3-5 faculty members. 

• At the end of this advisor selection process (usually by the first week of October), students will complete the Advisor Selection Survey where they will rank 3-5 advisors or co-advisor groups they would like to join. The Graduate Program Administrator will email this survey with further instructions.

• Students will also provide a narrative that describes the rationale for their selections. 

• Faculty will also participate in a Student Selection Survey which they will rank their top students they wish to join their group. The Graduate Program Administrator will email this survey with further instructions.

• Both Advisor and Student Surveys will be collected by the Graduate Program Administrator and disseminated to the Graduate Advisor. Using this information and overall departmental needs to facilitate a matching process, advisor assignments will be made and finalized at a ChE GSC meeting that takes place in October.

• Students will then be notified of their advisor assignments within one week. Any student who is not placed after this initial round will meet with the Graduate Adviser to discuss placement options and the next steps for finding a PhD advisor.

Resources

Websites

• Best website by far is the online Graduate Mentoring Guidebook created by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
• Similarly, creating an Individual Development Plan can help you prepare for your mentoring relationship. The University of Wisconsin has terrific resources for creating the IDP.
• Additional resources for creating an IDP are available at the bottom of the page on the Annual Review process

Articles

• "What matters in a PhD Advisor?: Here's what the research says," Science, April 5, 2019 by Katie Langin, associate editor for Science Careers

Books

• Making the Implicit Explicit, available in the Grad Office Library!

PowerPoints

• The Resiliency Mindset PowerPoint is available here