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College of Engineering Overview
David Huddleston, Interim Dean
Subramaniam Deivanayagam, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research
Roy C. Loutzenheiser, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs
Tony D. Marable, Director, Minority Engineering Program
COLLEGE OVERVIEW
The College of Engineering offers programs leading to the degrees of Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering. The Master of Science is offered with majors in chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, and mechanical engineering. The Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering is an interdisciplinary degree program under the direction of advisory committees that are interdepartmental in nature. Each student, however, chooses a major area from the five listed for the MS programs.
Each M. S. and Ph.D. student has an advisory committee of faculty members which helps to guide the student’s studies and progress toward completion of degree requirements. The chairperson of the committee, who must be a faculty member from the department in which the student is majoring, has special responsibility to assist the student with development of an individualized program of study and appropriate research goals.
The College of Engineering operates three state-supported Centers of Excellence: Manufacturing Research; Management, Utilization, and Protection of Water Resources; and Electric Power. State-of-the-art facilities are available through these centers for graduate student research projects. In the Electric Power Center, computer and laboratory facilities exist to perform engineering and economic modeling for the design of power plants and electrical distribution and transmission systems. The Manufacturing Center maintains extensive computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) capabilities. In addition to computer modeling capabilities, the Water Resources Center has an EPA-certified water analysis laboratory.
The Chemical Engineering Department maintains research facilities in energy conservation, mass transfer, computer-aided process design, distillation, polymers, and physical properties. Within the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and the Water Resources Center are excellent facilities for water and industrial-waste treatment research, chemical analyses, soils and structural engineering, stress analysis, and transportation materials. Among the excellent facilities in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Electric Power Center are laboratories for antennas, digital systems, plasmas, lasers, power-system simulation and training, robotics, telecommunication and signal processing, gaseous electronics, and nuclear engineering. The Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department has modern facilities for research in ergonomics, manufacturing systems, and the simulation of industrial activities. The Mechanical Engineering Department, the Electric Power Center, and the Manufacturing Research Center have extensive facilities for noise control, combustion engines, computer-aided design, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, machine design, material sciences and solar engineering.
Financial aid is available through individual departments and centers in the form of teaching or research assistantships. Full assistantships pay tuition and fees plus a monthly stipend. Partial assistantships, which pay a prorated share of tuition, fees, and a monthly stipend, are sometimes awarded. (See College's Peterson's guide for current range of pay rates.) A limited amount of support is available during the summer months. Approximately 85 percent of engineering graduate students received assistantships during part or all of the duration of their studies.
Page last updated: 6/25/04
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