GPS for Graduate School: Students Share Their Stories - Softcover

This resource book consists of chapters by sixteen graduate student authors and two advisors of graduate students, with corresponding video vignettes that briefly dramatise each chapter's theme and are accompanied by group discussion questions. The chapter topics include seeking funding, the challenges of the first year of graduate school, finding a thesis advisor, working with thesis committee members, balancing family and graduate student life, and life after graduate school.

Mark J. T. Smith is dean of the Purdue University Graduate School and holds the Michael J. and Katherine R. Birck Professorship in electrical and computer engineering. He has been at Purdue since 2003 when he joined the faculty as head of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was previously a faculty member at Georgia Tech and holds both his MS and PhD degrees from that institution.