Engineering Workshop Schedule
Graduate students are welcome to attend the professional development events listed below. Workshops require pre-registration. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the virtual or on-campus events. If you have any questions, please contact the Graduate Dean's Office.
These workshops are hosted by the School of Engineering Graduate Dean's Office, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the following shared services:
- Career Center
- Counseling and Mental Health Service
- Office of the Vice Provost for Institutional Inclusive Excellence
- StAAR Center
- Tisch Library
The 2026-2027 professional development workshop schedule will be announced soon!
Past Events
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Tips for Your First Semester in Graduate School: Survive and Thrive
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
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Quantum Computing from a Software Perspective
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
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View presentation slides
How to Train your Advisor, by Dr. Karen A. Panetta
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
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Negotiating Salary and Benefits with DevelopHer
This is open to graduate students of all gender identity.Learn the Secrets to Make More $ in Your Tech Career. Register for exclusive access to the award-winning salary negotiation course that has helped students negotiate salary increases of $10K, $25K, and even $80K in just a single negotiation! This course is free this academic year for up to 200 current graduate students in Tufts School of Engineering. Register for the DevelopHer course.
IEEE English for Technical Professionals
Want to strengthen your English language proficiency? Tufts engineering graduate students are welcome to take the free, self-paced online course.This course by IEEE enables professional engineers and technical professionals whose first language is not English to improve their language skills in a way that fits the needs and priorities of working adults in the engineering fields. As a professional in your field, you are well-aware of the importance of understanding and maintaining standards for process, product, and discovery. This course presents the English language standards and practice activities that are essential for your daily success—whether you want to describe a project to a peer, submit a technical proposal to a funding source, or justify your technical findings to a supervisor. The goal is to help learners gain confidence and understanding about the ways in which technical or engineering communication works.
Instructions for the free online course:
When you are ready to take the IEEE English for Technical Professionals online self-paced course, please use your Tufts UTLN credentials to access the site, and then you will need to create an IEEE id as the second step of the login process.Please note, for SOE graduate students who are required to take the online course, progress will be monitored and graded. Please contact the office of Dr. Karen Panetta, Dean of Graduate Programs, enggradstudies@tufts.edu or phone 617-627-1332, with questions about the graded online course.
Contact IEEE English for Technical Professionals for technical support.