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  1. Yes, @TakeruK. I had something like an epiphany as I was grieving about it this evening and I thought I might as well express how I feel to him in an email. So I wrote along the lines: Hi Dr. Xyz, I feel I invested a lot of effort into the grant application process and it seems to me to be quite unfair that I will not have my name on the application you intend to submit. I checked with other students who are submitting and the understanding I got was that their advisors had no problem with their names on the submission. I am trusting you have the best intentions and I am not questioning your intent and objectivity at this point. I worked so hard on the application since I felt winning it would be a great accomplishment for me. I felt this would be a plus for me in the future, not to mention I feel very hurt and saddened by the recent development. I hope you do not take this too personal but I could not hide my feelings anymore. Long story short, he mailed back within the hour saying he called the other Professor who's doing similar research and he confirmed to him his student's name is on the grant. He has revisited the proposal and added my name. I feel better now.
  2. Thanks everyone for your contribution. I just want to bring this closer to home and find out what the standard practice in STEM is in the United States when applying for grant as a grad student. The company whose devices I've been using to deploy my algorithm mailed me sometime in April about the possibility of being awarded a $50,000 grant to fund my research should I decide to apply. In good faith, I told my advisor that I would like to collaborate with him on this grant application and he told me he was happy to collaborate with me in applying for the grant. I went to work drawing up the draft and checking it with the company's local sponsor at my institution. He made minor corrections and told me it was good enough to be submitted. All the while, my PI paid no attention to the work after asking for his input in emails. He was away for a conference when I did most of the work. When he returned, I brought it up to his face and reiterated that I would love to have his input on my draft before I submit. He read it up after the discussion and was very impressed but admitted he was concerned a student would be applying for a grant. He asked me to confirm this from the research grant coordinator at the company who would later confirm that I could submit it in my name and it's optional for me to submit it in the PI's name or submit it along with his name. Anyways, I informed my advisor of the grant coordinator's reply but I could read his emotions and body language that he was dissatisfied with the response. As the deadline approached, my advisor started musing how it was not a good idea for me to be the one to submit the document. One morning, he raised it that he grant submission has to go through the Uni grant office which I accepted as it seemed logical to me. What I found confusing however was the fact that he recently told me he would have to remove my name from the grant document because "the school told him so" after he checked with the university grant office. The thing is I have other colleagues in other research labs that are applying for this same grant through their advisor but their advisor is in no way musing to remove their name from the grant application. It's difficult but I am starting to question this guy's intent and objectivity. Am I the one with issues?
  3. Hey, hey, hey Eigen!...Wht's all this "conflated in your head" thing? And I am not aware of people paying for conference trips out of their pocket, either. But I hold that things might differ I your field, however.
  4. OK! I raised this issue with him yesterday in a non-confrontational, clear-the-air setting. I basically reiterated the earlier conversation we had early on and told him that I had been working on the presumption that I was going to be presenting my work at the conferences. I found it out of normalcy to know at the last moment that I was being shoved aside. He was quite generous in his remarks telling me he had no question about my competence or anything like that but it was more of a budget thing. According to him, my project is currently low on budget given that the proposals' results (submitted in the first quarter of the year) were not announced yet and he has had to dig into another student's budget to make this trip to Europe. He also raised the fact that I was an international student and that getting visa to travel to the country where the conference was being organized might be an issue for me (not like I had visa issues as I told him before we ever got the work submitted that I had no visa issues travelling to this particular country). I am exploring securing grants elsewhere for this trip though.
  5. http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/47255/two-papers-accepted-co-authors-presenting Well, the consensus seems to raise this issue with the PI and clear the air going forward. Thank you all!
  6. It would be indexed on IEEE xPlore after the presentation. Is this what you meant by publishing? Again, thank you for the sagely advice. I will discuss this with him and let him know what I think.
  7. I am a first-year PhD student and I have two accepted publications as a first author since the start of my program. The thing is I thought I would be the one to travel to the conferences and present my work but my advisor has hi-jacked the second presentation from me, principally in my opinion, because he wants to get the opportunity to travel out of the country. The conference is in Europe. He gives me a flimsy excuse that the reason he will be going is because he will be on the committee of reviewers for the same conference next year and this will be a good opportunity for him to know what is going on. The first conference is somewhere in CA and his co-PI also hijacked that presentation from me. I feel a little frustrated that all my hard-work is being reaped by different people who had little or nothing to do with the hundreds of hours of research that led to these results. I feel this might be a trend that will continue throughout my PhD as I see these guys continuing this way. My question: do you think I should challenge these folks or quietly accept their excuses for wanting to go, though unhappy about it as it is, and hope for a better deal in the future.
  8. Hi, I am a first year PhD barely 8 months into my program and the Professor whom I have been working with since starting my degree did not earn the confidence of the University in securing a tenure position today (he's been an Assistant Professor for five years and the vote for his tenureship was held yesterday. I learnt the department gave him their fullest support but the "No" vote came from the University). Sad to say, but this has been a gloomy day in our research lab since the news broke this afternoon. Although my professor sent out an email to members of his lab informing us of the news and the fact that the Dean of Engineering would work to situate every PhD student in the University, I am literally confused as to what the future holds. The University has given the advisor till May 2016 to look for other jobs. This was not what I planned for when I was coming to graduate school and I am literally confused on what to do. I would appreciate your advice. Thanks! Calorified!
  9. Hey guys, I'm new to this PhD program and this advisor (who is generous in every aspect of the work) except for his management style.One thing he does that bites me constantly is the constant supervision and oversight that he puts into his supervision style. He asks for updates (often informally) every morning and evening - start and close of business, specifically - and sometimes as often as he sees you during the day. Not that I do not like it but it puts me on the spot every so often that I am constantly working during the day to ensure I have something to say when he comes around. When you close for the day, you also have to do some extra work to make sure you have stuff to say when he comes the following morning. Granted, he does not feel awkward when you tell him you have no update; still, it's a little discomforting to know he would be coming any time to check on you in the lab. I have worked in the industry and as a masters research student before, delivered consistent results but I have never had to work under such close supervision - he wants to know every bit of the work that you are doing. Is this even normal. I feel I would not be satisfied working for him this way as I do not have real control of my project direction. Has anyone faced such close supervision before? How did you go around it? Calorified
  10. I would email the Professors that I am interested in working with and be open to them. Usually, they'll tell you they are not involved in the admissions process but I think letting them ahead of screening out applications might make a difference. My two cents. Do it!
  11. Again guys, thank you! I think it's a steep learning curve that's great!
  12. Thank you guys. You were really helpful. I discussed this issue with my advisor a day after putting it up here and he wants me to settle in first and also get some GPA under my belt before I decide for the "screaming" exam. I don't know about your experiences, but I am finding the pressure in the system so great that I find it difficult to recalibrate after my day and keep up with other things in life. Right now, I am the sole investigator for a project which my advisor won the grant shortly before I came (my RAship actually comes from this project) and my advisor thinks I am equal to the task. My head tells me I should not be leading a project execution at this time. What do you guys say?
  13. Hi, I am an EE PhD major who's just started his PhD. The departmental graduate secretary emailed out application forms for qualifying exams this afternoon (to all PhD students I suppose). So the QE will be an oral one and is meant to assess one's readiness to conduct research in the chosen field by testing one's ability to apply what one has learned in previous MS and BS classes to analyzing research literature. One is required to pass within 3 long semesters. Since I am just starting and I am already taking a research credit of 6 hours this semester followed by a 3 credit hours coursework, do you think I will be overloading myself with much labor if I decide to take on this qualifying exam this fall or should I defer it to my next two long semesters? I will be pleased to read your thoughts. Thank you!
  14. Send it to me. Let me take a look for you. My field is engineering though but I believe I will have insights to share.
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