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ECE Graduate Recruiting

ECE Graduate Recruiting. Why consider Graduate School ECE p rogram o verview MS program PhD program Admission Requirements Information Financial Support Contact Julie Walters or G ijs Bosman, Larsen 230. Myth and Facts 1: It won’t pay to get an advanced degree!.

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ECE Graduate Recruiting

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  1. ECE Graduate Recruiting • Why consider Graduate School • ECE program overview • MS program • PhD program • Admission Requirements • Information • Financial Support • Contact Julie Walters or Gijs Bosman, Larsen 230

  2. Myth and Facts 1: It won’t pay to get an advanced degree! • Sample starting salaries B.S. MSPh.D. EE (avg) $61k $76k$ 99k EE(median) $79k $100k Data for 2012 UF ECE Grads accepting US positions

  3. Myth and Facts 2: Grad school is limiting • MS or PhD is the preferred degree in many • industries/disciplines. • 90% of Engineering PhD graduates go to industry. • Need PhD to teach at University. • Most upper management have advanced degrees.

  4. Myth and Facts 3:I can’t afford it! • Financial Aid (Mostly PhD) • Tuition Waiver • Stipend

  5. Program Overview UG MS PhD 60 CH 130+ CH 30 CH Courses Labs Design Courses Internship Research Design Internships

  6. Faculty Activity Teaching Research – look at faculty/ECE websites Submit Proposals Entrepreneurs Get involved as an UG Lab work – contact faculty NSF – Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) – Nationwide Internships with industry

  7. Degree Programs • Master of Engineering (Non-thesis or Thesis, 30 credit hours) • Master of Science (Non-thesis or Thesis, 30 credit hours) • Ph. D. (90 credit hours beyond BS) • BS/MS • BS/PhD • Joint MSEE/MSM • Joint MSEE/JD John Harris, professor and chair

  8. Typical Master Program Choose a mix of courses from Devices – Signals & Systems – Circuits – Computer Engineering- Electromagnetics From Textbook Frontier of Knowledge Fx(9ch) - Sx+1 (9ch) - SSx+1 (3ch) - Fx+1 (9ch) Internship

  9. Master DegreesNon-Thesis (30 hrs) • Depth requirement; Complete 3 courses within one division, with one course at least at the 6000 level. • Breadth requirement; Complete at least one ECE course outside depth division. • A minimum of 21 credit hours of ECE, UF classroom courses. • MS final written exam during 2nd part of aselected depth sequence. • ME no final exam Rob Fox, associate professor and associate chair

  10. PhD Program • Take 24 research focused course credits (MS courses count) • Additional credits (could be all research) to get to 90 beyond BS • Find a PhD advisor • Pass PhD written qualifier • Form a committee • Pass PhD oral proposal defense • Present a status report • Pass PhD oral dissertation defense • Turn in written PhD dissertation • Combined BS/PhD: Undergraduate GPA ≥ 3.7 12 credits double counted • From MS into PhD program: Graduate GPA ≥ 3.5

  11. Course Spectrum Devices Entering graduate student F F F F F F

  12. Admission RequirementsI. General Graduate School MS Admission • UG GPA ≥ 3.0 • GRE [Q + V], avg score of admitted students is 315 • GRE AW ≥ 3.5 • 3 recommendation letters of faculty Time saving Combined Programs for higher GPA students • BS-MS combined [6 or 12 credits doubly counted] • BS-PhD combined [12 credits doubly counted]

  13. Admission RequirementsII. Requirements: Combined BS-MS Program • Senior status (4eg, 90 credits), • At least a year from starting semester to graduation • 7 EEL/EEE core courses, • 2 EEL labs • Upper division GPA of 3.3 or higher • GRE score of 315 (new) or1200 (old) or higher

  14. Multiple Tracks • Honors BS/MS: GPA ≥ 3.3: 6 credits double counted 24 credits left for MS • High Honors BS/MS: GPA ≥ 3.6: 12 credits double counted 18 credits left for MS • BS/PhD: GPA ≥ 3.7: 12 credits double counted

  15. Financial Support I • Research Assistantship (RA). Stipend and tuition waiver if >0.25 FTE. Distributed by ECE faculty. • Other Personal Services UF jobs (OPS). Stipend but no tuition waiver. • Industry Internships – $5k to $7k / month, relocation help

  16. Financial Support II UF Fellowships, 4 year, stipend + tuition, Faculty buy-in. National Fellowships on your person, can be used at any school. Competitive but very attractive! • Army, ONR, and AFOSR, application window Sept-January (www.ASEE.org) • SMART, Oct-February window • NSF GRFP, Nov 4 deadline

  17. Information • Julie Walters in Larsen 230, office@graduate.ece.ufl.edu Application Deadlines for F14: Dec 15, Jan 1,-May 1 • Graduate area Course and Research Videos at http://www.ufedge.ufl.edu/sp/ece-graduate-orientationfall2013 section 3 is E&M, 4-Signals & Systems, 5-Devices, 6-Computer Engineering, 7- Circuits • Graduate Academic section ECE website http://www.ece.ufl.edu

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  19. Advantages of UF ECE • 32th best ECE graduate program in US News (2012) • Many Faculty (~$12M research expenditures/year) • Diverse areas of research • Lots of opportunities • More than 600 graduate students (~200 MS, ~400 PhD) • Large Number of course offerings • 80 graduate courses/year. • This allows flexibility in choosing courses.(Compare to Caltech EE with 16 faculty members and 80 grad students) • Lots of top companies recruit our grad students • Intel, TI, IBM, Lockheed as examples

  20. Already Familiar with the Program • Know the Faculty • Have the Prereqs we expect • Easier to select courses • We have a BS/MS program with double counting

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