To-Do-List

Specific "to-do list" for the Environmental Engineering and Science Wiki

General •	Our site has a dearth of pictures. We can improve its curb appeal with some nice images. Some ideas are mentioned in the lists below, but any other additions are welcome.

“About the SSC & News” page •	Add a paragraph explaining what the SSC is and any other pertinent information. •	Find five other “newsworthy” items to add to the news section.

“Academic Careers” Page •	Write an introductory paragraph describing the information available here and a quick guide to its use. •	Write a short description of your personal job hunting experience highlighting key points that might be specific to Environmental engineering and Science or that might not be mentioned on other web sites discussing the academic job search. (This could be put in a separate page and linked from the Academic Careers Page; hopefully we’ll get several of these.) •	Add a paragraph under the “Environmental Engineering Academic Job Websites” heading with more “insider information” about the list of links that follows. Give an opinion about where is the best place to start, the pros and cons of different sites, maybe a rating of the usefulness of each site. For instance, has anyone actually found viable positions for environmental scientists and engineers on “theladders.com”? •	Place icons for each web site next to its link. •	Under “Books that Provide Guidance for Rising or New Faculty” provide a short review of each book (or at least ones that people have read/used).

“Business-sector Careers” Page •	Add a “Resources for job hunting” section (similar to the Academic Careers page) •	Add a “Environmental Engineering Academic Job Websites” section (similar to the Academic Careers page) •	Add a “Books that Provide Guidance for Business-sector careers” section (similar to the Academic Careers page)

“Non-profit Careers” Page •	Create the page •	Add a “Resources for job hunting” section (similar to the Academic Careers page) •	Add a “Environmental Engineering Academic Job Websites” section (similar to the Academic Careers page) •	Add a “Books that Provide Guidance for Business-sector careers” section (similar to the Academic Careers page) “Conferences” Page •	Add five other conferences to the list. •	Add links to the conference web sites •	Add a paragraph for each conference by someone who has attended describing what it’s like and who might be interested in attending.

“Faculty & Associates” Page •	Add ten more Faculty members to the list, with links to their LinkedIn.com pages. Also add links to their personal web sites or university-held pages. (Perhaps we could ask the faculty for permission to do this, and that would give the added advantage of their being directed to our site. But on the other hand, we could just add them and I doubt anyone would mind being linked—that’s the nature of the web.) •	Repeat the above item several times.

“Organizations” Page •	Expand the introductory sentence to a paragraph describing the usefulness of organizations, etc. •	Add a few sentences describing each organization. If we can think of things that aren’t immediately obvious from the organization’s web page, that would be more useful. •	Add icons for each organization next to the links. •	Add links to local student chapter pages. •	Find 10 more student chapters and create links. •	Add university logos next to the student chapter links.

“Scholarships and Fellowships” Page •	Add five undergraduate student opportunities with links to the sites. •	Add links to the graduate student opportunities.

“Students” Page •	Add more students to the students page.