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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
- Prepare students for rewarding employment
in national security research role at the
national laboratories
- Applied physics research training leading
to employment in an industrial setting
- Provide students with teaching experience.
- 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.
- Interdisciplinary research training at
the interfaces of physics, chemistry, biology,
engineering and medicine
Objectives
- Graduates should have experience working
in a research environment with publications
in peer reviewed journals as a lead author
- Students should have taken an advanced
level graduate course in their specialized
area of physics research.
- Students completing the Ph.D. program should
have presented results at a scientific meeting
at the regional and national levels.
- 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 should successfully defend a
Ph.D.’s thesis.
- Graduates will have exposure to state-of-the-art
technology, including computing technology.
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