Faculty Development

Building and nurturing an environment where faculty can work and create effectively is critical to “developing virtuoso talent.”

Engineering and Purdue Opportunities

  • Faculty Mentoring: Mentoring is an on-going process at Purdue. It begins when you join the College of Engineering and continues until you reach full professor status and beyond.
  • Finding External Recognition Opportunities: Using our Purdue Engineering Resources - Awards don’t just come to those that wait. They come to people that get nominated, are prepared, and keep an eye out for helping others and helping themselves. This interactive workshop will introduce faculty to the College’s newly developed External Recognitions Opportunities Database—a centralized, searchable resource designed to streamline the process of identifying prestigious awards, fellowships, and honors. Attendees will learn how to effectively navigate the database to uncover opportunities that align with their scholarly achievements, career stage, and discipline. The session will include a live demonstration of key features, tips for customizing searches, and guidance on how to use the database to proactively plan for recognition milestones. While the broader landscape of external recognitions will be briefly discussed, the primary focus of this workshop is equipping faculty with a powerful tool to take ownership of their professional visibility and recognition strategy.
  • Elements Faculty Training Sessions - Offered by Office of the Provost, Faculty Affairs.  If you're new to the Elements Reporting Tool, join us for these 60-minute virtual workshops which will cover an overview and navigation of Elements, how to begin curating activities and publications, and key features and data feeds relevant to your faculty profile, including your ORCid.
  • The Power of Vision Documents: Your Tool for Initiating Large-scale Funding Projects - Writing a vision document helps an idea progress towards funding through facilitating discussion with collaborators, industry partners, and government agencies. Learn best practices for composing these one-pagers with strategy in mind for gaining the insights, resources, and connections for competitive proposals.
  • Successful Grant Writing Strategies - Hosted by the Office of Research (OOR). Sally Bond, Strategic Interdisciplinary Research, will present key strategies to help you produce your most compelling grant proposals, regardless of funding agency or size of potential award. The workshop will also point you to important grant-writing resources at Purdue. Learn best practices to: build a compelling storyline, respond to a funding agency's mission and requirements, identify win differentiators, write for reviewers, and conduct internal reviews. Note: Registration required.
  • Increasing Visibility and Impact of Scholarly Research - more information coming soon!
  • University Opportunities: Here, you’ll find a number of initiatives and organizations designed to help you enhance your leadership and teaching skills available at Purdue and externally.

Previous Engineering Workshops

View The Office Of Naval Research ONR Young Faculty Program YIP Workshop Recording (login required)
View The Art + Science of Pitching Research Proposals Workshop Recording (login required)

External Opportunities Supported by the College