All final thesis copies are submitted to the COE Office of Graduate Affairs. The MMAE Department offers a limited number of Graduate Assistantships, which provide financial support to students making good progress toward their degrees. In some cases, the assistantships are funded directly from external agencies, and students working on the associated research projects have the benefit of contributing to their own degree objectives while earning financial support. In other cases, assistantships are funded through the department, and students receiving such support are employed according to current departmental needs. Such needs typically are for laboratory assistants, currently unsponsored research, and paper grading.
All financial support is tied to the student s good progress toward degree completion.
For the full time student, a master s degree should be completed in 12-18 months.