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College of Engineering 331 Engineering Building General Statement Civil Engineering Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Master of Science
Engineering Course Descriptions- |
Master of Science Candidates admitted to the program normally have a natural science or engineering baccalaureate major and meet the admission requirements of the Graduate School and the College of Engineering. For admission, an overall undergraduate grade point average of at least 2.8 on a scale of 4.0 is required with at least 3.0 in the last in the last two years of undergraduate studies is required. The departmental admissions committee will decide each case on an individual basis. The general Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is required for all applicants but may be waived upon written request for applicants with two or more years of professional employment. Students who wish to be considered for financial aid are required to take the GRE. The TOEFL examination is required of international applicants. For application forms, course information or questions, contact the graduate program chair. Degree Requirements The program requires 34 semester hours of graduate credit for graduation, including an independent research project or a structured externship/internship program. The research project demonstrates the student’s synthesis of course material and develops new information or techniques. The externship and internship, performed in government or industry under an appropriate supervisory professional, augment the student’s course work with on-site, practical experience. A formal report of the research project or the internship is required for graduation.
Direct
inquiries to: Saroj K. Biswas,
Bechara
A. Abboud, P.E., Associate
Professor, Ph.D.,
Drexel University; George R. Baran, Professor,
Ph.D., University of Michigan, M. Robert Baren, Professor,
Ph.D., University
of Pennsylvania; Saroj K. Biswas, Associate
Professor
and Director of
Graduate Studies,
Ph.D., University
of Ottawa; Michel C. Boufadel, Assistant
Professor, Ph.D.,
University of Cincinnati; Brian P. Butz, Professor,
Ph.D., Drexel
University; Jim S. J. Chen, Professor,
Ph.D., Drexel University;
Richard Y. Chiou, Assistant
Professor, Ph.D.,
Georgia Institute of Technology; Richard S. Cohen, Associate
Professor, Ph.D.,
Princeton University; Sushil DasGupta, Professor,
Ph.D., University
of Wisconsin; John J. Helferty,
Associate Professor and
Chair of Electrical
Engineering,
Ph.D., Drexel University; Micha Hohenberger, Professor,
Ph.D., Drexel University; Donald W. Humphreys, Professor
and Director
of Undergraduate Studies, Ph.D.,
University of Iowa; Richard D. Klafter, Professor,
Ph.D., The City
University of New York; James M. Matthews, P.E.,
Associate Professor,
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; Robert M. Patterson,
Professor,
Sc.D., Harvard University;
Vallorie Peridier, Associate
Professor, Ph.D.,
Lehigh University;
The Ph.D. in Engineering degree program is designed for students who have graduate-level training in engineering, the sciences, or mathematics, and who wish to carry out doctoral-level research in engineering. Engineering research is an inherently interdisciplinary activity, and the faculty associated with the Ph.D. in Engineering are drawn from all departments in the College. They represent a wide variety of technical backgrounds and interests. The size of the College fosters cooperative research among disciplines. The program offers the motivated student an opportunity to acquire the kind of broad-based background in engineering and applied science that is difficult to obtain in more conventional, narrowly-focused, discipline-specific programs. Graduates of this program will have acquired a background in diverse engineering approaches that will make them very effective in their advanced-technology careers in research, academia, or industry.
Areas of Concentration The current faculty research interests determine the possible areas of concentration. These include, but are not limited to, the following categories:
Advanced/Computer-Aided Manufacturing and Advanced Materials Processing: Students may work in the fields of machine-tool design, failure and fracture mechanics, reliability, rapid-solidification, rapid prototyping, finite element analysis, and CAD/CAM.
Bioengineering: Current research activities in this area include development of biomaterials and advanced dental materials, biomechanics, prostheses and tissue engineering.
Computer Engineering: Students working in this area may undertake research in digital-hardware design and fabrication, VLSI circuit design, advanced microprocessor design, and computer networks.
Construction Management: Current research activities include construction productivity and safety, construction automation and management information system, and communication.
Dynamics, Controls, and Systems: Current research activity in this category includes nonlinear and optimal control theory, mechatronics, neural networks, intelligent systems, multimedia, expert systems, robotics, motion control, and structural analysis.
Energy and Environmental Science: Active projects in this category include aluminum recycling, combustion, and environmental health studies on bio-markers of exposure, novel techniques of exposure analysis, and treatment of water supplies. Engineering Physics and Engineering Mathematics: Present areas of research include scientific visualization, computational methods for electromagnetic applications, nanoscale devices, fluid dynamics, and computational physics.
Thermal and Fluid Science: Research areas include heat transfer enhancement, thermal control, combustion, fluid-flow diagnosis, fluid power optimization, and transport phenomena in processing.
Signal Processing and Communication: Current areas of research include speech and image compression, voice and image processing, signal estimation and filtering, real-time signal processing, and digital data communication.
Structural Dynamics and Engineering: Current research areas include cyclic behavior of reinforced masonry and prestressed masonry walls, seismic evaluation of buildings.
Transportation Engineering: Research areas in transportation are flexible pavement, fatigue design of asphalt concrete, and traffic control.
The student in consultation with the Doctoral Advisory Committee and/or the adviser develops a recommended program of study for any of these areas.
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