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Graduate Teaching Assistantships

A limited number of Graduate Teaching Assistantships are available for qualified students.  Some of these Graduate Teaching Assistantships are awarded to the top incoming students based on  their application material.  Additionally, Graduate Teaching Assistantships may be awarded to current students based upon a faculty member's recommendation to the Associate Department Head.  The faculty recommendation must include:

1. Name of the student, email address, degree sought (MS or Ph.D.) and anticipated graduation date.
2. How this student is contributing to the faculty member's research program research.
3. The courses that the faculty member feels this student is best suited to cover as a laboratory instructor.
4. An assessment of the student's oral communication skills. Note that if the student's first language is not English, they will either have to pass the ITA screening exam or pass the ITA course COMM485 before they can be hired as a laboratory instructor.

If a student is offered a teaching assistant, they must complete an application for financial support and obtain three confidential letters of reference prior to being hired.  This material should be sent directly to the Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, not the Graduate School. 

Graduate Teaching Assistantships Time Limits

Graduate Teaching Assistantships require that the student maintain a GPA > 3.0, and make adequate progress towards an EE degree. 

1. For MS students, ECE Department teaching assistantships are limited to four semesters.
2. For Ph.D. students with MS degrees, teaching assistants are expected to conform to the following time-table:
   1.  Pass the Ph.D. Qualifying Exam within 2 semesters
   2.  Pass the Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam within 4 semesters
   3. Pass the Dissertation Defense within 5 semesters
3. For Ph.D. students without MS degrees, teaching assistants are expected to conform to the following time-table:
   1.  Pass the Ph.D. Qualifying Exam within 3 semesters
   2.  Pass the Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam within 6 semesters
   3. Pass the Dissertation Defense within 7 semesters

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Graduate Research Assistantships

A limited number of Graduate Research Assistantships are available for qualified students.  Generally, a RA is awarded by a faculty member who has external research funding and requires a student with specific skills or subject knowledge.  Graduate Research Assistantships continue as long as the faculty sponsor has adequate funding and is satisfied with student's performance.  They also require that the student maintain a GPA > 3.0 and make adequate progress towards an EE degree.

If a student is offered a teaching assistant, they must complete an application for financial support and obtain three confidential letters of reference prior to being hired.  This material should be sent directly to the Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, not the Graduate School.

The following Graduate Research Assistantships are currently open:

Description:	Applicant Qualifications:	To Apply:
Two funded GA research positions are open starting Fall Semester of 2006 in the communications/digital signal processing area. The applicant should already have an MS degree in ECE and should be interested in pursuing a PhD. The research focus of this project is on distributed video and audio processing for networks of sensor nodes. This research grant is being funded by the Army Research Office, and its duration is 3 years.	An MS degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering with at least some coursework related to DSP, Communications Theory, and/or information theory. The applicant must pursue a PhD in the Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Mexico State University.	E-mail a resume to Prof. Chuck Creusere at ccreuser@nmsu.edu

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