KSEAProfessional Development Workshop

(ProDeW) 2014March 15-16, 2014

Hilton Rosemont/Chicago O’Hare5550 North River Road Rosemont, IL 60018

KSEA Career Development History

• Until 2012– Job search, Resume Writing, Interview, Paper Writing– HQ presentation files– By chapters

• 2013 – The Scientists and Engineers Early Career Development

(SEECD): Regional Workshops • 2014– Professional Development Workshop: National Level

Workshop

Goals

• Provide a Comprehensive, Systematic, and Practical Career Development Program

• At National Level / Regional Level• Provide mentoring and career development advice • Audience: students and professionals in early career

stage

Program Delivery

• 6 to 10 Months• 10 Member Team• Saturday PM and Sunday AM

Program Contents

• Funding, Entrepreneurship, and IP• Job Search and Application • Teaching & Research

• Writing Successful Proposals • Writing High Impact Papers• Writing Patent Applications

• Presentation, Self-promotion, and Leadership

Budget

Funding Opportunities

• NSF Mission, Initiatives, Funding Opportunities, and International Collaboration

• Clive Woods, MA, DPhil, National Science Foundation • Funding Opportunities for Biomedical Research• Minkyung Song, PhD, National Institutes of Health• • Grant Funding Viewed from Program Director’s Desk • Jay Myung, PhD, The Ohio State University

Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property

• Overview of SBIR/STTR Funding and Introduction of KASTE

• Bong-Kyun Ryu, PhD, EpiSys Science, Inc. • Changes in USPTO Patent Law • Sungyong In, JD, Arent Fox LLP, Attorneys at

Law

Organizing Committee(10 members)

• Myung Jong Lee (President and General Chair)• Seogjoo Jang (PJD1 and Committee Chair) • Jong Y. Park (PJD2, Proposal, and Website/Publication) • Kyung A. Kang (PJD4, Proposal, and Workshop Leader) • Youngsoo Richard Kim (VP2, Workshop Leader, Logo development,

Budget ) • Jaehoon Yu (ED, Workshop Leader solicitation of keynote speaker) • Byeong-Uk Kim (MD1, Workshop Leader and Application)• Ken Choi (PD3 and Local Committee Chair) • Bong K. Ryu (IED and Presenter) • Benjamin Lee (YGC Chair, Application, Program)

www.ksea.org/Prodew2014

Program• Keynote Speaker and Plenary Speakers: Young-Kee Kim (Fermi Lab. and

Univ. of Chicago), Larry Kwak (MD Anderson Cancer Center of the Univ. of Texas)

• Workshop 1 (General Session): Funding, Entrepreneurship, and IP• Workshop 2 (Parallel Sessions): Job Search and Application (Students and

Postdocs), Teaching & Research (University Faculty), Research and Teamwork (Researchers in Laboratories and Companies)

• Workshop 3 (General Session and Parallel): Career Development, Networking and Mentoring

• Workshop 4 (Parallel Sessions): Writing successful papers and proposals (students and postdocs), Writing high impact papers, successful research proposals, and patent applications (Junior Faculty and Research Staff)

• Workshop 5 (General Session): Presentation, Self-promotion, and Leadership

Survey Items

• Website• Application and Registration• Email Communications• Program Booklet• Participants Networking• Organizer Interaction• Workshop Quality• Punctuality• Food• Venue

Suggestions for Future Program

• Start early:10 months in advance – Speakers Invitation• Minimize registration fees (but not zero) • Seek funds to make the workshop self-sustainable • Double Occupancy Assignment time consuming • Use the workshop as membership driving event

Questions

KSEAProfessional Development Workshop 2014