Readings on the graduate experience in engineering fields Compiled by Jacqueline Maasch and Anshuman Mohan

Succeeding in graduate school

• Empowering First-Year Computer Science Ph.D. Students to Create a Culture that Values Community and Mental Health (Yacoby et al. 2023)
• Mor Naaman's PhD Syllabus (Cornell Tech)
• Recommended readings on the Cornell CS Wiki: Guide to a PhD

Broader impacts of computer science research

Climate change and sustainability

• Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning (Rolnick et al. 2022, ACM Computing Surveys)

Diversity, inclusion, and exclusion in engineering professions

• A Narrative Analysis of Black, Latino/a/x, and Indigenous Students' Sense of Belonging in Engineering at a Predominantly White Institution (Dorve-Lewis et al. 2023, American Society for Engineering Education)
• The intersectional privilege of white able-bodied heterosexual men in STEM (Cech 2022, Science Advances)
• Engineering ableism: The exclusion and devaluation of engineering students and professionals with physical disabilities and chronic and mental illness (Cech 2023, Journal of Engineering Education)
• Systemic inequalities for LGBTQ professionals in STEM (Cech and Waidzunas 2021, Science Advances)
• The changing career trajectories of new parents in STEM (Cech and Blair-Loy 2019, PNAS)
• STEM Jobs See Uneven Progress in Increasing Gender, Racial and Ethnic Diversity (Fry et al. 2021, Pew)