Created Academic Resources

Documents and templates David has created that are useful for academics.

• Undergraduate Researcher Guide: Guidelines for students mentees in the lab. Useful for any beginning researcher, or for other mentors

• Conferences for Water, Materials, HVAC etc relevant to the lab

• Journals and their Impact Factors relevant to the lab (Water, Nano, Transport)

• Journal Paper Template (Word): Includes formatting guidelines, built-in headings, references, updating equation and figure numbers, image compression disabled, etc

• Business Card Template: Easy-to-edit template in powerpoint

• An Excel Document for Organizing life: a template of the planning spreadsheet David developed for himself, to track everything important

• Altmetric Paper lookup (just replace DOI, last field) Or get the Boomarklet

• Academic mailing lists: Nature, EPA, google scholar,

• Useful academic links: Journal Trends (Scimago), Connected Paper diagrams,

• Purdue water links: Ecological Faculty, Ag Water Quality, Purdue Nano equipment, Sustainable student groups, Sustainability at Purdue

• Purdue water grad student listserv (signup) or it’s Contact for questions

• Purdue links for Safety Training and Waste Disposal

• Purdue mechanical graduate guide, mechanical grad student blog and undergrad blog

• Purdue courses: Lab notes on courses, lists for Water Courses, Mechanical Engineering Graduate Courses and Undergraduate Courses. Also, Grades for Purdue courses.

• Purdue libraries’ paywalled article request link. (click “Copies to download” after a day or so of making the request).

• Purdue’s access to the weekly Water Desalination Report

Top picks: my favorite informative websites:

• Wide Ranging PhD Resources from Awesome-PhD

• Cal Newport's productivity blog

Recommended Videos & Audio

• MIT Innotherm lecture on Membrane Distillation

• Storytelling for Science lecture by Purdue Dean Sorin Matei, Communications Prof.

• Water treatment plant basics

• Free Stanford course on writing for scientists

• DOE Desal Hub repository of Desalination Videos

• School of Life (youtube channel on life skills and mental health)

• Scishow, MinutePhysics, and Crash Course, youtube channels for scientific knowledge

• Recommended Podcasts for Academics:
  -Nature Podcast, HBR Ideacast, The Art of Manliness, TED Worklife, Science Vs

For lab members, lab resources are at the members page