Profile of a Start Up Package

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Profile of a Start Up Package

• Composite of Recent Offers in Chemical Engineering

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ChE Offers

• Salary it will be competitive
• Based on historical information (surveys of peer
  schools, published surveys of salaries) and a gut
  feeling of what it will take.
• Space (ready to go and fully operational)
• Two 600 ft2 labs for experimentalists, fitted to
  meet immediate needs (hoods, power, etc.), each
  has two built-in desks. Commitment to provide
  more labs as they are needed.
• Office(s) for graduate students and postdocs for
  computational folks. Appropriate space designed
  for clusters.
• Faculty office

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ChE Offers

• Equipment (ask, be realistic, be flexible)
• 110,000 - 325,000 for the past six offers.
  Have a list ready while on your visit and hand it
  over right away. Organize into must have and
  sole use, must have and can be shared, want
  but not critical, would be nice.
  Supplies/services are not equipment so separate
  out. Consider the schedule for acquiring the
  items.
• Students (six graduate-student years or cash)
• Dean provides one, Che Dept provides five
• No cost at all to the faculty member stipend,
  benefits, moving costs, tuition and fees.
• Discretionary Resources
• Dean provides 5,000
• Department provides 45,000

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ChE Offers

• Summer Salary (six summer months or cash)
• Teaching (think portfolio and promotion)
• Need to teach undergraduate class(es)
• Try to have a portfolio of 3 different classes in
  first five years (one core, one elective, one
  graduate)
• One class/semester and it can be the same class
  for first three or four times.
• Give one semester of no formal class, not in the
  first semester.
• Moving (top off what the Dean provides)
• Revisits (always offered and involve the
  significant other)

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Who Negotiates?

• Chair?
• Dean?
• Both?
• Others?

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Preparing to Negotiate

• Identify your true needs in establishing your
  research program and accepting a position
• Determine to what extent your needs can be met by
  equipment and facilities already in place and
  available for your use
• Dont confuse your needs and your wants
• Try to determine what is and is not negotiable
• Try to determine what a typical offer includes

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Negotiating

• You probably wont get things you dont ask for
• Dont present a moving target
• Dont negotiate against yourself
• Try to get as much in writing as possible to
  avoid later misunderstandings
• Be cautious in playing one university against
  another