Mechanical engineering laboratories support research in manufacturing, metallurgy, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, biomechanics, materials processing and testing, robotics, and vibrations. The biomedical engineering, mathematics, and biostatistics programs closely collaborate and share facilities with the College of Medicine. Sixty workstations, fifty X-terminals, three microcomputer laboratories, and two graphics laboratories support instructional and research needs. Most full-time graduate students receive a graduate teaching fellowship or a graduate research fellowship. Students requesting financial support must submit scores from the General Test of the Graduate Record Examinations.
Possibilities exist for summer support.
The New England Regional Student Program provides reduced tuition in selected programs for students who are residents of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, or Rhode Island. There are 159 graduate students in the College of Engineering and Mathematics. The Graduate College has 1,112 students, and the campus population numbers about 10,000. In civil and environmental engineering, recent employers include IBM, Camp Dresser and McKee, Vollmer Associates, Research Engineers Inc., and GEO Engineering. Electrical engineers and computer scientists have recently joined IBM, Hewlett-Packard, IDX, and Raytheon.