Also, from my personal experience, understanding of these basic concepts is often tested during the job interview process. For details of specific experiments, please refer to the appropriate course information provided by the instructor. In the past, many of our professors have hired summer students to help with research activities such as experimentation, implementation, testing and simulation of algorithms, protocols and ideas. Experience working in the Group can provide students with the opportunity to meet graduate students, learn about more specific topics and technologies in the area, and gain better perspective on what communications research is. Jobs are focussed on specific projects and are offered by individual professors.
Availability varies from year to year.
Graduate Studies Undergraduate students interested in pursuing graduate studies in the Communications Group should visit the Graduate Studies Handbook for application procedure and admission policy information. The members of the Communications group at U of T undertake research in a very diverse set of areas. Regardless of your particular interests, this breadth will have a very positive and eye-opening effect on your work and professional growth. Through your graduate studies you will learn invaluable skills such as designing, managing, and executing your own project plan, identifying and focussing only on relevant details in a vast sea of information, and selling your ideas and work to a highly technical community. Even in industry these skills are in high demand - the difference in terms of salary may not seem worthwhile, but in terms of quality of work, level of responsibility, and promotability, therein lies the value graduate work.