Staying sane on the tenure track. Henderson, S. G. In Mason, S., Hill, R., Mönch, L., & Rose, O., editors, Proceedings of the 2008 Winter Simulation Conference, pages 2954–2959, Piscataway, NJ, 2008. IEEE.
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A tenure-track appointment is a wonderful thing, but it really should come with an instruction manual. This article is a loosely-coupled collection of thoughts and advice on surviving a tenure-track appointment. The focus is on concrete tips and advice for an engineering-school appointment, which was my path, but perhaps some of the ideas are also valid in other environments, such as business schools and mathematics or computer science departments.

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