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Mission, Goals and Objectives: Physics M.S. Program

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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