Students Career Panel: 11am, Friday, August 23, ECS660

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Students Career Panel: What's Beyond the Island?
Time: 11am--2pm, Friday, August 23, 2019
Location: UVic Engineering/Computer Science (ECS) building, room 660
RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/beyonduvic by August 23, 9am for pizza count

"What do I hope to be told while I was still in school?"
"What do I hope to be told when I started my career in (academia, government, industry, etc)?"
"What have I found from my experience, observation and mentoring of students, colleagues, etc?"
"(your questions here...)?"

A group of distinguished panelists around the world this week at UVic, alphabetically:

Professor Fumiyuki Adachi (Professor of Tohoku University, Japan)
Professor Dingyi Fang (UVic Visiting Professor and Professor at Northwest University, Xi'an, China)
Professor Jianping He (Formerly UVic Postdoc and now Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
Professor Rose Hu (Associate Dean Research and Professor at Utah State University, USA)
Professor Ming Ling (Formerly UVic Visiting Professor and Professor at Southeast University, Nanjing, China)
Mr Matt McKinney (Marketing and Business Development Director of ArcBlock, USA)
Dr Humphrey Rutagemwa (Research Scientist at Communications Research Center, Canada)

invite you and your fellow students to a lively discussion and Q&A over pizza. RSVP needed.

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Thanks a lot to the energetic panelists, and involved students, for the full participation, interaction, and various logistics/preparation

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some students asked

I’d love to join the panel but I’m out of town on 23 August. I wonder if you would offer the notes taken from the meeting or the ministers of the meeting afterwards, so my friends and I wouldn’t be worried missing the panel but still learn from it.

so some summarized raw notes taken by the attended students and professionals---not edited or reviewed by the panelists though

* to talk with others and try to find something new! Thinking only by yourself is not possible!

• to combine your daily work with your initial dream. (i.e., to have a vision while focusing on your research)
• when you feel pressed like waiting for offers, just focus on the things you can control instead of worrying about that which you can not control.
• to believe yourself and believe in your capability. Work hard! Be willing to change and never stuck. Build up strong passion! Don't stuck in a tiny problem!
• To be focused on your academic trajectory at the beginning of your career. To try your best to become a qualified principal investigator as soon as possible.
• Don't be afraid to challenge yourself. I encourage people to be uncomfortable and push yourself!
• Try to express yourself.

and

1. told students to talk to each other and find something that is interesting to you…build communication skills

2. mentioned importance of intrinsic & extrinsic career motivation – long term and short term goals.

3. agreed with 1&2, and discussed the importance of being open to change.

4. advises you should be willing to change – don’t get stuck because technology is always changing…

5. expressed the importance of building a network of like minded people in your industry

6. Helped bring an industry perspective…the technology is the start , but monetarizing and marketing make it profitable in the long run. Brief comment on issues of health around 5G?

7. spoke of importance of standards in industry and an understanding of effects that new technology has… (eg:5G?)

hope it helps for future students too