Stop “Working Toward” Tenure—Start Engineering It.

Stop “Working Toward” Tenure. Start Engineering It. Every junior faculty member in engineering is introduced, sooner or later, to the so-called four-headed monster: PhD students, publications, extramural funding, and external validation. The message is usually framed in reassuring terms: manage all four, balance them carefully, and tenure will follow. This is comforting advice. It is Continue…