GETTING STARTED

GENERAL QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT

• The EECS Servicecenter is a very good source of support if you are not sure who to contact about various matters. The Servicecenter at Borggården can be contacted here: service@eecs.kth.se . You can also visit them on Plan 4, Lindstedtsvägen 3.
  
  
• When you commence employment at KTH, once of you first visits will be to the Servicecenter in order to arrange for an access card and room key.
  
  
• It is good to familiarise yourself with the KTH Academic Calendar available here: https://www.kth.se/student/schema/lasarsindelning-for-undervisning-och-examination-1.1007 . Note that there are four periods per academic year, divided into two terms Hösttermin (HT) and Vårtermin (VT).

GROUPS, NEWSLETTERS AND MAILING LISTS

CST Teaching KTH Social Group

• If you are the supervisor of a new PhD student, you should inform them as soon as possible about the Getting Started section here. The group is open, so anyone can join it.

CST Documentation KTH Social Group

• This group contains records of APT department meetings and other important department matters. The group can be found here: https://www.kth.se/social/group/cst-documentation/  . If you are a member of the CST department but do not have access, please email chpeters@kth with subject line '[CST Teaching] Need access to CST Documentation KTH Social Group'.

EECS School NewsLetter

• The EECS School news letter sometimes contains notification of very important events and it is a good idea to make sure you receive it.
  
  
• The exact subject line reads 'pEECS #x Newsletter from EECS', where x is the current newsletter issue. if you do not receive the newsletter, you should email communication-support@eecs.kth.se to ask them to register you for it.

Mailing Lists

• A list of mailing lists can be found here: https://intra.kth.se/en/eecs/skolans-organisation/kontakt-grupper/funktionsadresser/e-postlistor/avdelningarnas-e-postlistor-1.817018 . If you think you should be on one of the lists but are not, please email communication-support@eecs.kth.se .

IT TOOLS

• See the section on KTH-specific IT tools.
• KTH has an extensive range of software for use by students and employees. More details here: https://www.kth.se/en/student/kth-it-support/software
• Finding out schedules of various programmes, finding free rooms, etc: https://cloud.timeedit.net/kth/web/public01/ri1Q50.html

BUDGETING

• If you are a PhD student, it's important to find out how much teaching you are budgeted to do for a specific year e.g. 20%. This can be checked with your supervisor and CST economy: ekonomi-cst@eecs.kth.se .

TEACHING

• Once you know how much teaching you are doing for an academic year (see BUDGETING above), you should contact the Director of Studies (DoS) to start arranging it.
  
  
• If you are new, you should start arranging your teaching as soon as possible: since 16/17 hours of teaching is equal to 1%, if you have significant teaching, it can be difficult to allocate it quickly, at least if you wish to teach certain subjects. Teaching is typically arranged in June/July of the preceding academic year. It would be good if you could fill out the following form in relation to your competencies: https://goo.gl/forms/fNbXDY6yActqUAhj2
  
  
• The process for finding teaching usually involves contacting the course responsibles of courses that you would like to teach in within EECS to see if you can contribute. When doing so, it is good to obtain an estimate of the number of hours that you will do on the course.
  
  
• You can get an overview of some of the Computer Science tracks here: https://www.kth.se/en/studies/master/computer-science/course-overview-1.502267 and you can do a search by school/department and other criteria here: https://www.kth.se/student/kurser/sokkurs?q=&department=DK&l=en in order to get more information about specific courses.
  
  
• Finding out if courses are scheduled to run is also important. Most courses have an official University page, in addition to an open access KTH Social page and a closed access Canvas page. See for example https://www.kth.se/student/kurser/kurs/DH2323?l=en and https://www.kth.se/social/course/DH2323/ . To see if a course has been scheduled to run, look at the official course information page (i.e. first link) for a Course offerings section. The details of the offering i.e. course round, should be available there. If there are no details, the course may not be scheduled to run.
  
  
• Teaching is tracked via the Staffing Spreadsheet (see Important Links section on this site). For each spreadsheet, there is also an accompanying web interface that simplifies the display. If your name and the teaching you are doing is not listed there, then we are not aware that you are doing it. If that is the case, you should contact the DoS with your teaching details to update the spreadsheet.