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Program of Study

The College of Engineering offers the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in engineering science. The program prepares highly qualified individuals for teaching and research positions in higher education, industry, government, and other organizations. The Ph.D. is available with four concentrations: civil and environmental engineering, electrical and computer engineering, mechanical engineering and energy processes, and mining and mineral resources engineering.

Students must complete a minimum of 26 semester hours of course work, including 2 semester hours of seminar, and 24 semester hours of dissertation research. The course work must be completed in two areas–the area of concentration and the program core. A Ph.D. student must satisfy all Graduate School requirements to become a candidate. Acceptance to Ph.D. candidacy is contingent upon the completion of all core courses with grades of B or better and successful completion of a written and an oral test in the student’s area of concentration. In the written exam, the student is tested in at least two major topics of the area of concentration, with an appropriate number of questions prepared by the members of the student’s candidacy committee. In the oral test, conducted within two weeks of the successful completion of the written exam, the student is tested again in the area of concentration by at least 3 candidacy committee members.

The dissertation is written under the direction or codirection of an engineering faculty member and approved by a dissertation committee consisting of a minimum of 5 members, one of whom must be from outside the College of Engineering. A dissertation research proposal must be approved by the dissertation committee. Candidates must present an acceptable dissertation describing original research performed with minimal supervision. Dissertation approval is based on a successful oral defense of the dissertation research and approval of the dissertation.

Research Facilities

The College has well-equipped laboratories and computer facilities that are housed in the 70,000-square-foot Engineering Complex, which was dedicated in mid-1997. This addition houses more than thirty engineering laboratories, including facilities for advanced friction studies, information technology, optoelectronics, gaseous electronics, laser electronics, mechanics, fluidized-bed combustion, composite materials, imaging and nondestructive analysis, mineral processing, and many other topics. In addition, the College houses two unique research centers that contribute significantly to the intellectual portfolio of the College–the Center for Advanced Friction Studies (CAFS) and the Materials Technology Center (MTC). With a budget of more than $1 million, CAFS has extensive research facilities for fundamental and applied research in carbon-carbon and other composite friction materials, friction and wear mechanisms, and thermomechanical coupling in brake friction, among other areas. The MTC supports a broad-based program in a variety of cutting-edge areas dealing with the development of new materials and study of advanced material properties.

Financial Aid

Assistantships and fellowships with stipends of approximately $1500 per month and tuition scholarships are awarded to qualified students on a competitive basis. Students who are members of minority groups may also apply for fellowships through the Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois (DFI) program. This program offers a twelve-month stipend and a tuition scholarship for up to four years. More information is available from the Graduate School.

Cost of Study

In-state graduate tuition is $328 per credit hour in 2009–10. Out-of-state tuition is 2.5 times the in-state tuition rate ($820 per credit hour). Graduate students with at least a 25 percent appointment as a graduate assistant receive a tuition scholarship. Fees vary from $589.03 (1 credit hour) to $1557.50 (12 credit hours). Students with a graduate assistantship receive a 25 percent reduction in the primary care medical fee.

Living and Housing Costs

For married couples, students with families, and single graduate students, the University has 690 efficiency and one-, two-, three-, and four-bedroom apartments that rent for $499 to $720 per month in 2009–10. Residence halls for single graduate students are also available, as are accessible residence hall rooms and apartments for students with disabilities.

Student Group

Of the 28 students in the Ph.D. in Engineering Science program in 2007–08, 6 were women and 22 were part-time students. There were 4 students who are members of minority groups and 19 international students.

Location

Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) is 350 miles south of Chicago and 100 miles southeast of St. Louis. The scenic main campus occupies 981 acres and includes a wooded area preserved in a natural state, a lake with a beach and swimming area, canoe- and boat-rental facilities, a walking (or jogging) trail, and fishing piers. The campus provides an array of cultural activities, including frequent performances by opera, theater, symphony, and dance groups, given by both local and traveling performers.

The University and The College

Since its chartering in 1869, Southern Illinois University Carbondale has grown into a comprehensive university with a student body of approximately 22,000. Supported by the state of Illinois, the University offers a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate programs in liberal arts, sciences, engineering, medicine, and law. The objective of the University is to provide a comprehensive educational program that meets a student’s needs.

The College of Engineering excels in engineering and technology education and research through the quality of its faculty and staff members, graduates, students, facilities, and programs. The College strives to provide world-class programs in engineering and technology education, research, and service so as to enhance the economic and social well-being of the citizens of Illinois, the nation, and the world.

Applying

In addition to meeting the Graduate School’s admission requirements and being approved by the College Graduate Studies Committee, all applicants must have a master’s degree in engineering and at least a 3.5 GPA in all graduate-level work. A student must submit the completed application, the $45 application fee, official transcripts and diplomas, a copy of the M.S. thesis abstract, GRE scores, three letters of recommendation, a statement of objectives and research that the student wishes to undertake (two-page maximum), and a copy of the identification page of the student’s passport. In addition, international students must submit the financial statement and TOEFL scores. Applications are processed on a rolling basis.

The Faculty and Their Research

• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• James Blackburn, Professor; Ph.D., Tennessee, Knoxville, 1988. Energy production and odor reduction from livestock wastes, environmental processes, bioprocesses, pollution prevention, global warming.
• Rolando Bravo, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Houston, 1990; PE, PH, DWRE. Hydraulics and hydraulic design, hydrology, groundwater flow and subsidence.
• Gary Butson, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981; PE. Mechanics of materials, vibrations, solid mechanics.
• Lizette Chevalier, Professor and Chair; Ph.D., Michigan State, 1993; PE. Environmental engineering, environmental hydraulics, contaminant hydrology, NAPL transport/remediation and numerical modeling.
• Bruce DeVantier, Associate Professor; Ph.D., California, Davis, 1983; PE. Soil remediation, drinking water quality, numerical modeling, finite-element modeling.
• William F. Eichfeld, Assistant Professor; M.S., Wisconsin–Madison, 1973; PE. Structural analysis, strength of materials, highways and highway construction materials.
• Roy R. Frank Jr., Assistant Professor; M.S., Southern Illinois at Carbondale, 1983; IPLSA. Surveying, photogrammetry, GIS, GPS, heavy construction.
• J. Kent Hsiao, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Utah, 2000; PE, SE. Structural earthquake engineering, structural reliability, structural design of buildings and bridges using steel, reinforced or prestressed concrete masonry and wood.
• Aslam Kassimali, Professor; Ph.D., Missouri–Columbia, 1976. Nonlinear structural analysis, structural dynamics and stability, analysis of fiber-composite structures.
• Sanjeev Kumar, Professor; Ph.D., Missouri–Rolla, 1996; PE. Dynamic soil-structure interaction, piles under lateral loads, settlement prediction of landfills, seismic analysis and design of landfills, ground motion amplification in soils, liquefaction of silts and sands, machine foundations.
• Yanna Liang, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Utah State, 2006. Bioremediation of organic pollutants in subsurface and groundwater, bioenergy production from alternative sources, biomaterial production from biological processes.
• Xingmao (Samuel) Ma, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Missouri–Rolla, 2004. Remediation of contaminated groundwater, soil and sediment with plant-facilitated bioremediation technologies such as phytoremediation and constructed wetlands.
• John W. Nicklow, Professor and Associate Dean of Engineering; Ph.D., Arizona State, 1998; PE, PH, DWRE. Water resources and hydraulic engineering, applied hydrology, optimal control of water resources and environmental systems.
• Vijay K. Puri, Professor; Ph.D., Missouri–Rolla, 1984. Geotechnical engineering, soil dynamics, machine foundations, liquefaction of soils.
• Jale Tezcan, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Rice, 2005. Nonlinear structural behavior, neural networks in system identification and structural control, rehabilitation and retrofitting of structures damaged by earthquakes.
• Shing-Chung Yen, Professor and Director, Materials Technology Center; Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 1984. Analysis of composite materials and structures, solid mechanics, structural dynamics and vibrations.
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Shaikh S. Ahmed, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Arizona State, 2005. Nanoelectronic devices, semiconductor device and process simulations, novel numerical algorithms for molecular dynamics, large-scale high-performance parallel cluster computing, analog and digital design with nanoscale devices.
• Nazeih M. Botros, Professor; Ph.D., Oklahoma, 1985. Digital hardware design, signal processing, digital instrumentation, neural networks, robot sensing, bioengineering.
• Ada Chen, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Duke, 2007. Biomedical imaging, image reconstruction, digital tomosynthesis, image quality analysis, signal and image processing, simulation and computing.
• Morteza Daneshdoost, Professor; Ph.D., Drexel, 1984. Electric power systems, linear systems and circuits, control systems, optimization techniques, expert systems, computer graphics, MMI.
• Glafkos D. Galanos, Professor and Chair; Ph.D., Manchester (England), 1970. Power systems, HVDC transmission, power electronic systems.
• Lalit Gupta, Professor; Ph.D., SMU, 1986. Computer vision, pattern recognition, digital signal processing, neural networks.
• Frances J. Harackiewicz, Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts Amherst, 1990. Electromagnetics, antenna theory and design, microwaves, microstrip phased arrays, anisotropic materials.
• Constantine Hatziadoniu, Professor; Ph.D., West Virginia, 1987. Power systems modeling, simulation and control, high voltage DC transmission, power electronics, power systems transient.
• Dimitrios Kagaris, Professor; Ph.D., Dartmouth, 1994. VLSI design automation, digital circuit testing, communication networks.
• Farzad Pourboghrat, Professor; Ph.D., Iowa, 1984. Systems control, robust and adaptive control, robotics, embedded systems, sensor networks.
• Mohammad Sayeh, Professor; Ph.D., Oklahoma State, 1985. Neural networks, optical computing, image processing, stochastic modeling, quantum electronics.
• Spyros Tragoudas, Professor; Ph.D., Texas at Dallas, 1991. Design automation for VLSI, testing and verification of digital circuits, computer networks.
• Ramanarayanan Viswanathan, Professor; Ph.D., SMU, 1983. Detection and estimation theory, spread spectrum communication, communication theory, signal processing.
• Haibo Wang, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Arizona, 2002. Mixed-signal VLSI design and testing, digital VLSI, VLSI design automation.
• Ning Weng, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts Amherst, 2005. System integration.
• Wei Zhang, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Penn State, 2003. Computer architecture, compilers, hardware/software codesign.
• Manufacturing Systems
• Feng-Chang Roger Chang, Associate Professor and Chair; Ph.D., Ohio State, 1985. Computer-integrated manufacturing systems, production planning and control, lean manufacturing, six sigma.
• Bruce Deruntz, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Southern Illinois Carbondale, 2005. Six sigma, industrial metrology, human resource development and training.
• Julie K. Dunston, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Florida State, 1995. Neural networks, composites manufacturing, design optimization, concurrent engineering.
• Mandara Savage, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Iowa State, 1999. Machine tool dynamics, fuzzy control, human factors engineering.
• Carl Spezia, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Southern Illinois Carbondale, 2002. Power systems, industrial control systems, electric machines.
• Tomas Velasco, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Arkansas, 1991. Quality control, statistics, reliability, artificial intelligence.
• Mechanical Engineering and Energy Processes
• Serge Abrate, Professor; Ph.D., Purdue, 1983. Structures, structural dynamics, vibrations, design, composite materials.
• Om P. Agrawal, Professor; Ph.D., Illinois at Chicago, 1984. Computer-aided analysis and design of rigid/flexible multibody systems, numerical analysis, finite-element methods, continuum mechanics.
• James W. Blackburn, Professor; Ph.D., Tennessee, 1988. Biokinetics, bioremediation, biotechnology and pollution prevention.
• Philip Chu, Professor; Ph.D., South Carolina, 1982. CAD/CAM composite materials, NDE, FEA.
• Jarlen Don, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Ohio State, 1982. Materials creep and creep fatigue, surface phenomena, carbon-carbon composites.
• Asghar Esmaeeli, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Michigan, 1995. Numerical simulations of peristaltic pumping, computations of spray cooling.
• Kambiz Farhang, Professor; Ph.D., Purdue, 1989. CAD, controls, vibrations.
• Peter Filip, Professor and Director, Center for Advanced Friction Studies; Ph.D., Ostrava (Czech Republic), 1989. Carbon-carbon materials and advanced applications, friction and wear mechanisms, biomaterials, shape memory alloys, and metallurgy.
• Rasit Koc, Professor; Ph.D., Missouri–Rolla, 1989. Ceramic materials, powder processing.
• Ajay Mahajan, Professor; Ph.D., Tulane, 1994. Robotics, controls, intelligent and autonomous systems.
• James A. Mathias, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Ohio State, 2001. Thermodynamics, heat transfer, microtechnology, nanotechnology, low-grade energy utilization.
• Kanchan Mondal, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Southern Illinois Carbondale, 2001. Electrochemistry, energy from coal, catalysis, reactor systems and design.
• Emmanuel C. Nsofor, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Mississippi State, 1993. Energy systems, thermal analysis and design, HVAC.
• Marek L. Szary, Associate Professor; D.Engr., Wroclaw Technical (Poland), 1977. Mechanical aspects of robots, acoustics.
• Alan J. Weston, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Southern Illinois at Carbondale, 1991. Chemical processes, process control.
• Tomasz S. Wiltowski, Professor; Ph.D., Institute of Catalysis (Bulgaria), 1983. Energy and environment, hydrogen production from fossil fuels, gasification, renewable energy sources.
• Dale E. Wittmer, Professor and Chair; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980. High-temperature-resistant materials, high-temperature sintering, processing and properties of composites and advanced ceramics, X-ray diffraction studies.
• Mining Engineering
• Yoginder Chugh, Professor; Ph.D., Penn State, 1971. Rock mechanics and ground control, production engineering in surface and underground coal mines, mining subsidence, management of coal combustion residues.
• Satya Harpalani, Professor and Chair; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1985. Mine ventilation and cooling, methane recovery from coal, solution mining, carbon sequestration in geologic media, utilization of mine waste.
• Manoj K. Mohanty, Professor; Ph.D., Southern Illinois Carbondale, 1997. Coal and mineral processing, applied statistics and experimental design.
• Bradley C. Paul, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Utah, 1989. Solution mining, minerals processing, underground mining, management of coal combustion residues.
• Anthony J. S. (Sam) Spearing, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Silesia Technical, 1993. Underground mining, ground support, rock mechanics.

Correspondence and Information

Southern Illinois University Carbondale
John Nicklow, Associate Dean
College of Engineering
Carbondale, Illinois 62901-6603
Telephone: 618-453-4321
Fax: 618-453-4235
Email: nicklow@engr.siu.edu