The academic record should indicate superior achievement in course work related to environmental engineering. Usually, applicants will either hold or be working toward the master of science degree, and applicants who have or will produce a master's thesis will be judged to have superior ability in research depending on the scientific content of their theses. Both admission and degree requirements follow those established by the Graduate School. Among the areas of current research interest are rock and soil mechanics, coastal processes, explosives engineering, ice and snow mechanics, geophysical methods, groundwater hydrology, and other geotechnical topics which lend themselves to an interdisciplinary approach. Financial aid may be available in the form of research and teaching assistantships.
Most applicants already have a master of science degree.
Significant weight will be placed on the content of reference letters and the applicant's statement of objectives. Both admission and degree requirements follow those established by the Graduate School. The engineering PhD program in Sensing and Signal Processing is primarily a research degree, incorporating a broad range of disciplines. It deals with the acquisition and processing of information of various types, including optical, acoustical, biological, geophysical, and mechanical. It could embrace work in communications, automatic control, systems engineering, remote sensing, radar, biomedical engineering, and some aspects of computer engineering.