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Stephanie Laughton is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Citadel-The Military College of South Carolina (Start Date: August 2020). At Duke University, she acquired a Bachelor's in Civil & Environmental Engineering with Honors followed by Master's and Doctoral degrees in the same field from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Narra received her M.S. degree in Computational Mechanics and Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). After receiving her Ph.D., she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Next Manufacturing Center at CMU from 2017-2018. She joined WPI as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2018 in the department of Mechanical Engineering. Her primary research area is metal additive manufacturing with a focus on process design.
Casey Canfield is an Assistant Professor in Engineering Management & Systems Engineering at Missouri University of Science & Technology. Canfield’s research is focused on quantifying the human part of complex systems to improve decision-making, particularly in the context of infrastructure, governance, and healthcare. She has a PhD in Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.
The purpose of this “Lessons Learned” paper is to investigate how former graduate student leaders can employ their experiences to achieve and excel in service requirements as junior tenure-track faculty members. Research skills, and increasingly teaching ability, have been core to the graduate student curriculum, and match the majority of faculty tenure requirements. However, preparation for the service requirement is often overlooked at both the graduate student and faculty level. While a small part of the overall tenure package, there is an unspoken presumption that faculty members will be able to serve effectively and efficiently. In STEM curricula, the development of interpersonal skills is often overlooked. While this may not be an impediment in research communications, faculty may have a difficult time adapting to highly social university, local community, or governmental service organizations. The authors reflect on how their time as graduate student leaders, in student government, student organizations, and campus committees, influenced their ability to maximize impact while efficiently balancing time spent. The authors’ service portfolios span a range of fields – as student organization advisors, committee members, or advisory board members – in diverse types of institutions (from research universities to undergraduate teaching colleges) and have each balanced their personal and professional goals with their commitments. While not all junior faculty may have comparable graduate student leadership backgrounds, the authors provide broadly applicable suggestions, from one junior faculty member to another, discussing ways to maximize prior experiences to excel in the tenure service requirement category. This “Lessons Learned” paper should be presented as a lightning talk.
Laughton, S., & Gingerich, D., & Narra, S. P., & Canfield, C. I. (2021, July), From Student Organization Leadership to Excelling at Tenure-service Requirement Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. 10.18260/1-2--37210
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