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Mission
To educate students in the basic principles
of physics and to offer training in the basic
and applied skills necessary for a lead research
role in academia, national laboratories, and
industry.
Goals
- Provide students with teaching experience.
- Prepare students for rewarding employment,
graduate school, or professional
school.
- Train students in technology development
and assessment.
- Prepare students with a high degree
of advanced problem-solving skills
in Electricity and Magnetism, Classical
Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, and other
advanced topics in physics.
Objectives
- Graduates will have experience teaching
a laboratory section of a course.
- Graduates should have experience working
in a research environment.
- Students completing the M.S. program should
have presented results at a scientific meeting
at the regional level or higher.
- Students completing the M.S. program should
be a co-author on a team research publication
in peer-reviewed journal.
- Graduates should possess the necessary
researching and information gathering skills,
including database searches, for both general
research and problem solving.
- Graduates should have the ability to present,
discuss, and critique seminars in a peer
group setting.
- Graduates (in Plan I) should successfully
defend a master’s thesis.
- Graduates will have exposure to state-of-the-art
technology, including computing technology.
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