From: kchang@eng.auburn.edu (Kai H. Chang)
Subject: Graduate Study at Auburn University 
Followup-To: soc.college
Reply-To: kchang@eng.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:00:46 GMT


COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
GRADUATE STUDY AT AUBURN UNIVERSITY

1. Contact point

	Dr. Kai H. Chang
	Graduate Program Officer
	Department of Computer Science and Engineering
	Auburn University
	Auburn, Alabama  36849-5347

	E-mail:    kchang@eng.auburn.edu
	Telephone: (205) 844-6310
	Fax:       (205) 844-6329

2. Faculty and their research

	Stephen B. Seidman, Head and Professor (PhD, 1969, Univ. of Michigan)
	Parallel computation; formal methods in software engineering.

	W. Homer Carlisle, Associate Professor (PhD, 1970, Emory Univ.)
	Programming language; languages and algorithms for distributed and 
 	parallel processing; operating systems.

	Kai H. Chang, Associate Professor (PhD, 1986, Univ. of Cincinnati)
	Artificial intelligence; software testing; knowledge-based systems;
	planning systems; image processing.

	James H. Cross II, Associate Professor (PhD, 1986, Texas A & M Univ.)
	Software engineering; design methodology; testing; reverse engineering;
	CASE tools.

	William B. Day, Associate Professor (PhD, 1969, Rensselaer Polytechnic
	Institute)  Nonlinear differential equations; rotor-dynamics; parallel 
 	logic programming.

	Paul de Maine, Professor (PhD, 1955, Univ. of British Columbia)
	Artificial intelligence; database management systems; information 
	retrival; data compression; expert systems; computer chemistry; 
	systems for transporting computer languages.

	Yu Gong, Assistant Professor, (PhD, 1991, Univ. of Delaware)
	Computer networks; network performance evaluation; computer netwark
	simulation; communication protocols.

	Carolyn L. McCreary, Assistant Professor (PhD, 1987, Univ. of Colorado)
	Parallel computing; design and analysis of algorithms.
	
	Loretta A. Moore, Assistant Professor (PhD, 1991, Illinois Ins. of Tec.)
	Human-computer interaction; expert systems; database systems; artificial
	intelligence.

	Thomas M. Phillips, Associate Professor, (PhD, 1974, Univ. of Oklahama)
	Programming Languages; syntax-directed testing tools.

	Christopher Ward, Assistant Professor (PhD, 1987, Univ. of Florida)
	Computer networks; computer architectures.


3. Facilities for graduate students

	A network of Sun workstations that is linked to the College of 
	Engineering's Sun network. The network provides a rich collection of 
	software tools and packages that covers most computer science and 
	engineering related research.  Parallel computing research is supported 
	by the availabilty of a network of 16 T800 Transputers that are 
	accessible from any of the Department's workstations. Network access is 
	also available to the general computer facilities of the University, 
	and to the Alabama Supercomputer Network's Cray and nCUBE 
	supercomputers. 

4. Financial Support (1992-1993)

	Teaching Assistantships:  MS  level - $ 5,800 per nine-month
	          (20-25)         PhD level - $ 8,700 per nine-month

	Research Assistantships:  At least at the levels of TAs
	          (various)

5. Degrees offered

	PhD, MS (thesis required), MCSE (project required)

6. Application requirements

	GRE general - for all applicants
	GRE subject (CS) - for PhD program applicants only

	TOEFL - 550 minimum for internation students

	
7.  Application dealine

	Three months before the start of each quarter

	For Fall quarter assistantship consideration, all materials must be
	in before April 15.

8. Auburn University, founded in 1856, was the first land-grant college in 
   Alabama.  It has over 18,000 undergraduate and 3,000 graduate students, and
   it is located in the town of Auburn, which is about seven miles from the 
   county seat in Opelika.  The Auburn-Opelika community has a population of 
   over 60,000 (not including students).  Auburn is a small, pleasant town 
   located off Interstate Highway I-85, which provides easy access to 
   Montgomery and Atlanta.  It lies about 60 miles east of the Montgomery 
   Airport, 100 miles southwest of the Atlanta International Airport, and
   120 miles southeast of the Birmingham International Airport.   There are 
   frequent direct flights from Atlanta to all major North American and West 
   European cities as well as connections to principal Asian cities.

   Auburn University is noted for its excellent engineering, veterinary, and
   agricultural programs.  The College of Engineering, which enrolls about 
   one fifth of the total student, is heavily committed to research.  Reseach 
   awards during the 1991 fiscal year were over $ 11,000,000.

	

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