Teaching experience is also desirable for teaching assistants. Other fees charged by the University are not included in the TA fee waiver package. Teaching and research assistants are required to register for 9 credits each semester. The program is supported by a laboratory of UNIX workstations, and Xtreme Machine parallel computing facility, an Access Grid remote collaboration facility, a Machine Learning Laboratory, and a number of PCs. A real-time systems lab equipped with PCs and Sun Workstations running MatrixX, Matlab, Rational Suite, and other state of the art software exists within the department.
Students can focus on developing, testing, and deploying real-time software.
A scientific visualization facility will be in place by Spring 2002. Graduate assistants are supplied with a shared office. Alumni Careers Saxon Holbrook, '96. Ganesh Prabu, '00. David L. Thompson, '00.