DOCTORAL ASSISTANTSHIPS AVAILABLE 
at
OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY 

Every year, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering grants a few Teaching/Research Assistantships to doctoral students, on a competitive basis. These awards, which combine teaching and research duties, are open to all qualified students regardless of citizenship. The philosophy of our small, but selective, department is to focus on research areas in which our faculty have made significant contributions. Areas of particular strength in which it is anticipated that these assistantships will be awarded are:

Physical Electronics  
Ultrafast Laser Applications; Surface Science; Bioelectrical Effects; Non-Intrusive Measurements with Lasers; Fiber Bragg Gratings; Gaseous Electronics, including Micro-Hollow Cathode Discharges; Microelectronics; Modeling of Ultrafast Processes in Semiconductors; Diamond Films; Electromagnetic Wave Propagation; Satellite and LIDAR Measurements of the Atmosphere.

Digital Signal Processing
Speech Communication; Real-time Digital Signal Processing; Digital System Design; Biomedical Applications of Microprocessors

Control Engineering
Nonlinear Control Theory; Computer Vision; Artificial Intelligence Applications

Computer Engineering  
The department has a rapidly growing activity in Computer Engineering and plays a vital role in state-of-the-art modeling and simulation activities through the Virginia Modeling and Simulation Center (VMASC). The department is seeking highly motivated and talented students who have strong academic backgrounds (including top GRE scores as well as top ranking in their undergraduate/graduate Electrical Engineering programs) and an ambition to pursue a doctorate in Electrical Engineering.  Funding, in the range of$15,000 is available for a few such students in the areas listed above. In addition to this stipend, the offer includes a full tuition grant that could be worth an additional $10,000. Suitable applicants with degrees in related fields such as Physics and Chemistry will be considered for research areas within the Physical Electronics track. Students for whom English is not the native language must possess good skills in spoken English, as evidenced by their scores in the TSE. Such students should also have high scores in the TOEFL.

Contact:
Professor Amin Dharamsi
Graduate Program Director Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia USA 23529-0246
e-mail:     adharams@odu.edu
URL:       http://www.ece.odu.edu/~adharams/

Departmental URL:    http://www.ece.odu.edu