Research Resources

Compiled by Richard G. Baraniuk
Comments and suggestions: Email richb at rice dot edu

Useful tips on how to succeed in graduate school and your subsequent research career
(somewhat slanted towards signal processing).

• Seven Steps to Success in Graduate School, adapted from Naomi Halas

• Career Advice by Terry Tao, Fields Medalist

• Advice on Writing Papers by Terry Tao, Fields Medalist

• How to be a Highly Cited Author in the Mathematical Sciences by David Donoho

• Tips for Success in Graduate School by Vinay Ribeiro

• How to be a Good Graduate Student (web page, ACM paper) by Marie desJardins

• Paper Writing and Presentations Page by Armando Fox

• Five Steps to Stimulate Creativity by Paul Selwyn

• Seven Steps to Successfully Launching a Research Project by George Heilmer

• Eighteen Ways to Attack a Problem by Richard Bracewell

• You and Your Research by Richard Hamming

• How to Write Mathematics by Paul Halmos

• Notes on the PhD Degree by Douglas Comer

• Writing a Research Plan from Science

• Technology and Courage by Ivan Sutherland

• Networking on the Network by Phil Agre

• Conference Etiquette by Mark Hill and David Wood

• Oral Presentation Advice by Mark Hill

• Dissertation Advice by Olin Shivers

• Doctoral Education: Preparing for the Future by Jules LaPidus

• Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation by S. Joseph Levine

• Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal by S. Joseph Levine

• How to be a Star Engineer by Robert Kelley
  IEEE Spectrum, October 1999, pp. 51-58

• The Task of the Referee by Alan Jay Smith
  IEEE Computer, April 1990, 23(4), pp. 65-71

• Resources in Science and Engineeing Education by Richard Felder

• A PhD is Not Enough by Peter Feibelman
  Addison-Wesley, 1993 (ISBN: 0-201-62663-2)

• Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering
  by Richard M. Reis, IEEE Press, 1997 (ISBN: 0-780-31136-1)
  See also the book web page and listserve

• Thinking Strategically by Craig Loehle
  Cambridge University Press, 1996 (ISBN: 0-521-56841-2)

• Protect your wrists, shoulder, back! See Clay Scott's Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) web page

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig
  William Morrow, 1979 (ISBN: 0-688-05230-4)

• The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. B. White
  Allyn & Bacon 1995 (ISBN: 0-205-19158-4)

• Successful Presentations for Dummies by Malcolm Kushner
  IDG Books 1997 (ISBN: 1-56884-392-5)

• How stuff works by Marshall Brian