Grad students: Do you need help polishing a paper or fine-tuning a poster? How about putting together the perfect conference talk or designing visuals? The EECS Communication Lab, a new resource open to graduate students in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, can help you with these tasks.
Make an appointment to attend a coaching session for feedback on a wide range of scientific tasks including publications, job applications, figures, and conference talks. The Communication Advisors, since they are scientists first and foremost, focus on high-level issues such as motivation, audience, and clarity; they are not intended to be used as a line-editor for grammar or English.
How to use the EECS Communication Lab:
- Make an appointment with an EECS Communication Advisor: http://eecs.mywconline.com
- Check out the EECS CommKit (after 9/15): http://communicationlab.mit.edu/eecs
- Contact the EECS Comm Lab: alimura@mit.edu
- Attend workshops throughout the semester
There are 11 EECS Communication Advisors — your peers
Currently there are eleven EECS Communication Advisors: Samiya Alkhairy, Ross Finman, Chris Foy, Alex Hanson, Joel Jean, Pete Lindahl, Phillip Stanley-Marbell, Chris Musco, Julia Rubin, Greg Stein, and Samantha Dale Strasser.
The EECS online “CommKit” will be available in mid-September
The Communication Advisors have spent the summer developing an online searchable “CommKit.” This new resource breaks down approximately 20 graduate student communication tasks into quick tips and annotated examples in a range of EECS fields so that, when students are writing at 2 A.M., they have some tools to help them get started. The CommKit is intended to complement the Communication Lab’s individualized in-person consultations.
EECS Communication Lab will offer targeted workshops
This year the Communication Lab will be hosting several 1-2 hour scientific communication workshops for graduate students on a rage of topics. The goal of these targeted workshops is to provide timely hands-on support for graduate students in connection with authentic deadlines. For instance the Communication Advisors will be working closely with the leadership for Masterworks to offer best practices and individualized feedback to students right before the spring poster deadline.
Alison Takemura will join EECS as the Communication Lab Administrator in September
Dr. Alison Takemura will be joining the EECS Communication Lab team as their Program Administrator in mid-September. Takemura received a PhD from MIT, previously served as a Communication Fellow in the Department of Biological Engineering, and is an active science journalist. EECS Prof. Dirk Englund and Communication Lab Program Director Jaime Goldstein will continue to provide support and oversight for the initiatives.
Scientific communication speaker series will launch in September
As part of the School of Engineering Communication Lab program, EECS’s Communication Lab will co-host six high-profile events this year to help engineers and scientists think critically about their role in communicating their research to a range of audiences. The speaker series will cover topics such as the future of science journalism, data visualization, funding your ideas, and the next generation of scientific publication.
The EECS Communication Lab looks forward to working with you
The Communication Advisors and Communication Lab staff will be partnering closely with EECS headquarters and student leadership groups to develop a strategy on how best to support the EECS graduate student community in learning key writing, speaking, and visual design skills. The team looks forward to hearing from faculty, students and staff on to be most useful to the department. If you have a workshop idea or have a group of students who want support on a topic, please let us know.
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