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Dr. David Turpin
65 Ratings
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"Overall very good, good working environment" (in 51 reviews)
"Easy work; work-life balance; great colleagues" (in 15 reviews)
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"No employment insurance and low salary" (in 19 reviews)
"Low pay, straight across the board for many types of positions" (in 13 reviews)
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"Research Assitant"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at University of Alberta full-time (More than a year)
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- Challenging environment
-Acess to unlimted academic resourcesCons
None really it is one of the best places to work in
University of Alberta 2018-02-27 15:59 PST![University of Alberta Logo]()
"Research assistant"
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total was great experience
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total was great experience and i recommend it.
University of Alberta 2018-09-02 10:21 PDT![University of Alberta Logo]()
"Working here as a graduate student in engineering"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at University of Alberta (Less than a year)
Pros
- Flexible schedule as a research assistant
- you get to do research, take some valuable skills with you
- University with a fair amount of prestige and reputation in Canada
- If you have good research supervisor, all is good. If not... good luckCons
- Flexible schedule as research assistant
- Recent economic downturn seem to have hit the engineering department hard
- How you overall experience is depends more on your research supervisor
- too much bureacracy
- How many machine shops do you need?
- new construction projects in engineering just seem to be a money drain, the building facilities have many issues which can affect your experiments
- Edmonton is an orange town, expect lots of entitled union workers in the university
- I did research before at University of Calgary also, my honest opinion is it is waaay easier to get stuff done at U of C than U of A.
- IT infrastructure seems to be lagging behind other institutions
- Edmonton's northern location is inconvenient, takes too long for supplies to arriveUniversity of Alberta 2017-10-15 21:26 PDT![University of Alberta Logo]()
"Standard university"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at University of Alberta full-time
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Nice place to work.
Cons
Lots of bureaucracy but that is standard for a university.
University of Alberta 2017-03-16 09:32 PDT![University of Alberta Logo]()
"Technician"
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I worked at University of Alberta full-time
Pros
Excellent work environment, lots of time off, great benefits and retirement plan.
Cons
Association (union), which means that everyone gets the same step increase each year, regardless of effort. This means the superstars are not recognized.
Advice to Management
Work to recognize employees and empower change. Too often this work environment can become stagnant.
University of Alberta 2016-11-25 08:36 PST![University of Alberta Logo]()
"PhD student in Computing Science"
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Professors are very nice. Grad students are friendly.
Cons
The weather is too cold.
University of Alberta 2016-10-26 16:03 PDT![University of Alberta Logo]()
"PhD Student"
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RecommendsApproves of CEOPros
Great School, vibrant campus and cutting edge research topics
Cons
Super cold city! This also has adverse effects on human resources
University of Alberta 2016-10-02 21:10 PDT![University of Alberta Logo]()
"Graduate Research Assistant"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at University of Alberta (More than a year)
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It's a good place for graduate studies, I like working here a lot, people are funny.
Cons
Edmonton is pretty cold, the city is quite old and noisy. It's not safe to come out in the night.
Advice to Management
University needs to tight their funding, cut the useless people, let the real valuable people stay
University of Alberta 2016-09-08 18:46 PDT![University of Alberta Logo]()
"PhD student"
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RecommendsApproves of CEOI worked at University of Alberta full-time
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Good engineering reputation, good stipend compare to other Canadian university, flexible hours, let you work on your own. I have friends from other departments as well and didnt hear any complaint from them except in medicine regarding budget cut.
Cons
Nothing that I think of.
Advice to Management
Keep up good work and helping students as you do now.
University of Alberta 2016-08-30 09:55 PDT![University of Alberta Logo]()
"University of Alberta"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookI have been working at University of Alberta full-time (More than 5 years)
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Many funding opportunity, friendly environment, great work-family balance
Cons
The winters are long and cold.
Advice to Management
keep up the good work
University of Alberta 2016-08-04 08:45 PDT
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