|
E L E C T R O M A G N E T I C S |
|
The Bradley Department of Electrical
And Computer Engineering |
|
EM at VT |
Faculty | Research | Labs/Centers | Courses | Committee | Seminars | ECE Dept | Col of Eng | VT |
The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering offers BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering (EE) and Computer Engineering (CpE). This brochure introduces the graduate options in electromagnetics.
For further information, please contact:
|
Graduate Counselor: (540) 231-8393 EEGradAdv@vt.edu |
Virginia Tech, the State's Land Grant School, is the home of the Commonwealth's leading College of Engineering and is the nation's sixth largest engineering program. It is known throughout the nation for the excellence of its programs in education, research, and public service. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is the largest department in the college and a University Distinguished Department. More than 240 BSEE/BSCpE and 120 MS/PhD degrees are granted each academic year.
The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is among the largest in the country and offers one of the most comprehensive graduate and research programs available. More than 200 different projects are conducted on a broad range of topics in communications, computers, controls and systems, electromagnetics, electronics, and power. The faculty have created a strong, collaborative research environment where ideas and information can flow freely and the students can develop a solid background in their chosen specialty, while also becoming familiar with other vital issues in the field.
The research environment with 24 laboratories, groups, and centers lends extra vitality to graduate and undergraduate courses. Topics of inquiry range from the theoretical to current industrial applications. Projects are sponsored by industry, local and state government agencies and federal agencies. About half of the projects are funded by corporations, giving students and faculty quick access to industrial advances and a wide range of "real-world" problems.
The Department was established in 1891 and has been granting graduate degrees in electrical engineering since 1910. During the past 50 years, the Department’s mix of resources, opportunity, and energy triggered dramatic growth in size and prominence. Though the Department is now one of the country’s largest departments, it still maintains a small-group atmosphere.
The Department has about 350 graduate students in residence and another 150 located at other sites, particularly at our Northern Virginia campus. About 40 students are concentrating in some aspect of electromagnetics.
The Department offers graduate degrees at both the MS and PhD levels. There are both thesis and non-thesis options available at the MS level. The MS requires 30 semester hours of work while the PhD requires 48 semester hours of course work beyond the BS and a dissertation on a significant research topic. Students are encouraged to write a MS thesis in preparation for PhD research as well as the significant role of writing in the workplace.
The Draper's Meadow Settlement, forerunner to present day Blacksburg, was a community of farmers established by settlers of German, English, and Scotch-Irish origin on land granted to Colonel James Patton's Woods River Company in 1748. History records that the Draper's Meadow Settlement was the first permanent English speaking colony west of the Alleghenies.
Unfortunately, in July of 1755, a group of Shawnee Indians killed, injured, or captured all but four from the settlement in the Draper's Meadow Massacre. The Long Way Home, an outdoor historical drama, memorializes the capture and 850 mile escape of Mary Draper Ingles, one of the few to survivors. This story has also been dramatized for television.
Colonel William Preston came to the area in 1772, settled on John Draper's farm, and built the Smithfield Plantation now encompassed by VA Tech. A new settlement began and on August 4, 1798, a town was established on lands donated by William and Jane Black. Blacksburg is the home of Virginia Tech, and it is also the largest town in Virginia.