Looking for grad schools

[theslickvik]

Go CAL

 

[acx]

I went to CMU both for my BS and MS degrees. As far as I can recall, Carnegie Mellon does not have any power electonics research going on. CMU focuses more on robotics, networking, EDA/CAD tools, human computer interaction, and semiconductor research.

 

[A5]

Originally posted by: erub
I'm a new grad student at GT in ECE, and I've met quite a few people that are going into Power. I'm planning to study Telecommunications and Circuit Design though, just doing a non-thesis masters. Got full funding for that too, am going to be a TA for them though, I've heard that its not that uncommon. Like someone else said, GT has the largest EE grad department in the nation, so there are tons of class offerings

Go here:
http://www.ece.gatech.edu/academics/courses/course_menu.php

Type 6000 to 9999 and take a look at the many syllabi for grad classes

Don't worry about being a TA at GT...all of the grad TAs I've had so far have pretty much done nothing.

<-- CompE undergrad

 

[BrownTown]

Meh, I sure hope GREs are weighted alot, casue my 2.5 GPA ain't gonna be impressing anyone...

 

[CP5670]

Originally posted by: bobsmith1492
Yay, I just took the GREs...

So, do those really mean anything, even? I mean, do EGR grad schools even look at them? They seem really inconsequential.

The math part was stressful but not that bad apparently (got 800/800), but according to the stats I looked up, that's only like the 86th percentile of all engineers in doctorate programs... so basically everyone gets 800. I got 640 on the verbal; anyone know what that means, even? It looked like a little above average, but averages usually suck anyway.

At least in math, my professors say that the admissions committees just take it as a checkmark on your record and don't consider it any further. It's one of those things that doing well on won't really help but doing particularly poorly on will hurt you. I need to take it myself in a few weeks, along with the subject-specific math one.

 

[hypn0tik]

My borderline 3.0 GPA combined with my 1210 GRE (410 Verbal, no writing score yet since I wrote it yesterday) isn't going to impress anyone. I hope the two research jobs I held with two different Profs this past summer will acount for a good deal. If not I'm screwed.

 

[bobsmith1492]

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
My borderline 3.0 GPA combined with my 1210 GRE (410 Verbal, no writing score yet since I wrote it yesterday) isn't going to impress anyone. I hope the two research jobs I held with two different Profs this past summer will acount for a good deal. If not I'm screwed.

Heck yeah, from everything I've heard, experience, especially with research, is a huge step-up. They'd prefer to know you are actually interested enough to get out there and do something in the field rather than just study all the time to get good test scores. But anyway, that being said, I'll probably have no chance as I don't have much of a life outside of schoolwork and regular work... prolly don't even have the ambition to finish up any apps at this point.

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: A5

Originally posted by: erub
I'm a new grad student at GT in ECE, and I've met quite a few people that are going into Power. I'm planning to study Telecommunications and Circuit Design though, just doing a non-thesis masters. Got full funding for that too, am going to be a TA for them though, I've heard that its not that uncommon. Like someone else said, GT has the largest EE grad department in the nation, so there are tons of class offerings

Go here:
http://www.ece.gatech.edu/academics/courses/course_menu.php

Type 6000 to 9999 and take a look at the many syllabi for grad classes

Don't worry about being a TA at GT...all of the grad TAs I've had so far have pretty much done nothing.

<-- CompE undergrad

A good TA does all the work but in such a way that the students end up thinking they did it all. And don't worry if you actually end up doing pretty much nothing as an assistant, they'll pay accordingly.