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Programs of Study

Graduate programs leading to the degree of Master of Science are authorized in biomedical, chemical, civil, electrical, environmental, mechanical, and optical engineering as well as in engineering management, mathematics, and physics. Applicants are currently being accepted only for work leading to the M.S. degree in biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, engineering management, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, and optical engineering.

A thesis is considered to be a normal part of the master’s degree program. A nonthesis option is now available to electrical engineering students who choose the Master of Electrical and Computer Engineering degree. The degree program is tailored to the needs of each of the students, who develop a specific plan of study jointly with their individual advisory committee. A minimum of 51 quarter credits and an average grade of B are required. A maximum of 12 quarter credits may be earned by thesis research.

Research Facilities

Moench Hall, Olin Hall, and Crapo Hall house laboratories, classrooms, and offices for all the academic departments. The Computing Center supports three major logical networks: an AFS-based UNIX network, a Novell NetWare–based PC/Mac network, and an Open VMS Cluster. Project work with industry is supported in the 4,000-square-foot John T. Myers Center for Technological Research with Industry building.

Financial Aid

In general, Rose-Hulman has three types of financial aid available to graduate students. Assistantships–both graduate and research appointments–are awarded by the president of the Institute upon the recommendation of the Graduate Studies Committee. Tuition grants are also awarded by the president upon the recommendation of the Graduate Studies Committee. Loans are applied for through the Office of Student Life. Assistantships carry a stipend for the academic year and normally include a full tuition grant; payment is made in installments beginning in September.

Cost of Study

The 2009–10 tuition for a full-time graduate student is $11,300 per quarter. Part-time students enroll at $987 per quarter hour. Book costs, student insurance, and expenses for reproducing the thesis are the responsibility of the student.

Living and Housing Costs

On-campus housing is not currently available for graduate students.

Student Group

There are approximately 1,900 students at the Institute, all majoring in engineering or science. There are about 85 students in the on-campus graduate program and 90 in Rose-Hulman’s off-campus graduate program.

Location

The city of Terre Haute is located approximately 70 miles west of Indianapolis, near the Indiana-Illinois state line. The campus consists of 200 rolling acres in a suburban/residential setting east of Terre Haute. It is within easy driving distance of many major midwestern cities and universities. Numerous parks and recreational areas are close by.

The Institute

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is one of the select few independent colleges of engineering and science in the United States. It was founded in 1874 by Chauncey Rose, a pioneer industrialist and entrepreneur. The college’s mission is to educate Renaissance scientists and engineers–people who can change the times, who understand the importance of their technical knowledge in relation to society, and who maintain their appreciation for the arts and humanities. Some of the most academically talented students in the nation are enrolled at Rose-Hulman.

Applying

Applications for admission to graduate work and information may be obtained from the Institute address. Regular admission requires that the applicant have both a bachelor’s degree in an appropriate undergraduate field from an accredited educational institution and at least a B average. International applicants who are not graduates of an accredited bachelor’s program offered by a U.S. college or university must provide official copies of the results of the Graduate Record Examinations and the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). The minimum acceptable score on the TOEFL is 580 (237 on the computer-based test and 92 on the Internet-based test) divided equally among test sections.

The Faculty and Their Research

• Biomedical Engineering. Jameel Ahmed, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Northwestern, 1997: retinal blood flow, signal processing in the retina. Christine A. Buckley, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Northwestern, 1994: orthopedic biomaterials, corrosion of biomaterials, tissue engineering. Robert M. Bunch, Professor, Ph.D., Kansas, 1981; PE: optical instrument design, fiber-optic sensors, light scattering. Phillip J. Cornwell, Professor; Ph.D., Princeton, 1989: femoral component monitoring, structural dynamics. Kay C. Dee, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Rensselaer, 1996: tissue engineering, cell-biomaterial interactions, cellular responses to chemical and mechanical stimuli. Keith E. Hoover, Professor; Ph.D., Illinois, 1976: development of digital radio direction-finding and radio-locating techniques, ionospheric modeling, digital signal processing. Tina A. Hudson, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 2000: neuromorphic engineering, analog and digital integrated circuit design. Charles Joenathan, Professor and Head of the Department of Physics and Applied Optics; Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology, 1986; PE: speckle techniques, holography, fiber-optic sensors. Glen A. Livesay, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1996: experimental and theoretical biomechanics, soft tissue mechanics, sports mechanics, morphometrics. Lorraine G. Olson, Professor; Ph.D., MIT, 1985: inverse electrocardiography. Renee Rogge, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Iowa, 2000: orthopaedic biomechanics, upper extremity biomechanics, finite element modeling. Mario F. Simoni, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 2002: neuroengineering; analog, digital, and RF integrated circuits. Richard E. Stamper, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Maryland, 1997; PE: halo orthosis constraint systems, parallel manipulators, product design methodologies. Robert Throne, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Michigan, 1990: inverse problems, biomedical signal processing, control systems. Luanne Tilstra, Associate Professor; Ph.D., LSU, 1987; PE: physical chemistry/polymer physical chemistry, using light scattering and fluorescence to monitor peptide aggregation. Lee R. Waite, Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering and Head of the Department of Applied Biology and Biomedical Engineering; Ph.D., Iowa State, 1987; PE: biomedical fluid mechanics, biomedical instrumentation. William W. Weiner, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Syracuse, 2000; PE: invertebrate vision, circadian rhythms. Arthur B. Western Jr., Professor of Physics and Applied Optics, Vice President of Academic Affairs, and Dean of Faculty; Ph.D., Montana State, 1976; PE: optical holographic interferometry. Huihui Xu, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Illinois at Chicago, 2005: magnetic resonance imaging, bone tissue engineering. Chemical Engineering. Mark R. Anklam, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Princeton, 1997: emulsification and emulsion stability, surfactant-based separations, gas hydrate formation and control, polymer-surfactant interactions. Ronald S. Artigue, Professor; D.E., Tulane, 1980: process control, computer simulation physical and biological systems, micro/ultra filtration. Alfred Carlson, Professor; Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1982: biotechnology, bioseparations, fermentation design, chromatography, protein refolding, protein engineering. Daniel G. Coronell, Associate Professor; Ph.D., MIT, 1993: chemical vapor deposition of thin films, numerical simulation of reaction and transport/applications to the microelectronics and combustion industries. M. Hossein Hariri, Professor and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering; Ph.D., Manchester, 1979: air-pollution control, petroleum engineering, sorption of NOx and SOx, mass transfer. Scott J. McClellan, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Purdue, 2005: Interfacial engineering, protein/surfactant adsorption, thin film characterization, photocatalysis. David C. Miller, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Ohio State, 1998: process synthesis and design, especially with respect to batch processes and pharmaceutical production; applied intelligent systems and process optimization. Sharon G. Sauer, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Rice, 2001: physical property methods, including molecularly based equations of state using statistical mechanics and molecular simulation with applications to petrochemical and biochemical separations. Atanas Serbezov, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Rochester, 1997: adsorption and adsorption-based separations, porous materials, modeling and simulation, process control. Civil/Environmental Engineering. Richard A. Anthony, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Illinois at Chicago, 1995; PE: yeast genetics and molecular biology, ribosome structure and function. M. Hossein Hariri, Professor; Ph.D., Manchester, 1979; PE: air pollution control, petroleum engineering, sorption of NOx and SOx, mass transfer. Ella L. Ingram, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Indiana University, 2004: ecology of temperate forests, plant/fungi interactions. Thomas W. Mason, Professor of Economics; Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1972; PE: entrepreneurship, managerial economics and impact assessment. Howard McLean, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Wyoming, 1988; PE: geochemical and environmental analysis, lacustrine and plume modeling, bioremediation strategies. Sue L. Niezgoda, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Penn State, 2004; PE: hydraulics, river engineering, stream restoration, stormwater management. Terry Schumacher, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Portland State, 1992: technology forecasting, organizational culture and culture change, project management, new product development. Electrical and Computer Engineering. Frederick C. Berry, Professor; D.E., Louisiana Tech, 1988; PE: controls, parallel processing. Carlotta A. Berry, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Vanderbilt, 2003: mobile robotics, human-robot interfaces, controls. Bruce A. Black, Professor; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1971; PE: spread spectrum communications, wireless systems. Edward R. Doering, Professor; Ph.D., Iowa State, 1992: image and signal processing, embedded systems. William J. Eccles, Professor; Ph.D., Purdue, 1965; PE: circuits and systems. Clifford H. Grigg, Professor; Ph.D., Manchester (England), 1977; PE: power system operation, control, and economics. Marc E. Herniter, Professor; Ph.D., Michigan, 1989: analog circuits, power electronics, circuit simulation, alternative energy, model-based design, hybrid electric vehicles. Keith E. Hoover, Professor; Ph.D., Illinois, 1976: digital radio direction-finding and radio-locating techniques, ionospheric modeling, digital signal processing, neural networks. Tina A. Hudson, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 2000: analog and digital integrated circuit design, subthreshold MOSFET neuromorphic design, linear-threshold circuits. Daniel J. Moore, Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina State, 1989: semiconductor optical and electronic devices, materials, analog electronics. Xiaoyan Mu, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Wayne State, 2004: pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, neural networks, image processing and computer vision. Wayne T. Padgett, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 1994: digital signal processing, fixed point algorithms, sensor arrays processing, image processing. Mihaela Elena Radu, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania), 2000: digital design, fault-tolerance and testability of digital systems, analog and digital electronics. Niusha Rostamkolai, Professor; Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 1986; PE: power system dynamics and control, power system protection, flexible AC transmission. Mario F. Simoni, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 2002: analog, digital, and RF integrated circuits; bioengineering; neuroscience. Jianjian Song, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Minnesota, 1991: electromagnetic compatibility, high-speed digital system design, microcontroller-based system design, embedded and real-time systems, electronics design automation, algorithms and architecture for parallel and cluster computing. Robert Throne, Professor; Ph.D., Michigan, 1990: inverse problems, biomedical signal processing, control systems. David R. Voltmer, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Ohio State, 1970; PE: microwave CAD and metrology, computational electromagnetics, GPS applications. Deborah J. Walter, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Penn State, 1999: medical imaging systems, optimization of systems, electromagnetics. Phillip B. Walter, Visiting Professor; Ph.D., Penn State, 1997: control systems, intelligent and autonomous systems, nuclear power and propulsion, robotics. Edward D. Wheeler, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Missouri–Rolla, 1996: electronic and optical properties of materials, electromagnetics. Mark A. Yoder, Professor; Ph.D., Purdue, 1984: image and speech processing, digital signal processing, software defined radio. Mechanical Engineering. Thomas M. Adams, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 1998: heat transfer in microchannels; numerical modeling of two-phase, two-component fluid flow and heat transfer. M. Patricia Brackin, Professor; Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 1996; PE: design processes and optimization, quality management. April M. Bryan, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Michigan, 2008: product development, design optimization, manufacturing systems. Bradley T. Burchett, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Oregon State, 2001: controls, dynamics, estimation. Zachariah Chambers, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Tennessee, Knoxville, 2000: finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics. Phillip J. Cornwell, Professor; Ph.D., Princeton, 1989: structural dynamics, structural health monitoring. Patrick J. Cunningham, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Purdue, 2006: controls and signal processing, internal combustion engine and exhaust after treatment monitoring and control. Patrick D. Ferro, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Colorado School of Mines, 1994, PE: materials and manufacturing processes, superalloy and titanium casting, directional solidification, hydrogen storage. Jerry M. Fine, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Texas at Austin, 1984: Runge-Kutta-Nystrom methods with interpolants, finite-element analysis. David S. Fisher, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Stanford, 2005: gait interventions relating to knee osteoarthritis. J. Darrell Gibson, Professor; Ph.D., New Mexico, 1968; PE: noise and vibration analysis, mechanical design. Frederick L. Haan, Jr., Associate Professor; Ph.D., Notre Dame, 2000: fluid mechanics, structural dynamics, bluff body aerodynamics, wind engineering. Richard A. Layton, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Washington (Seattle), 1995; PE: dynamic systems modeling, simulation, analysis, and design. Calvin Lui, Associate Professor; Stanford, 2003: computational methods, aeroacoustics, compressible turbulence. James E. Mayhew, Associate Professor; Ph.D., California, Davis, 1999: gas turbine film cooling, convection heat transfer, thermochromic liquid crystals. Andrew R. Mech, Professor; Ph.D., Illinois, 1986; PE: system simulation and optimization, gas turbines, power production. Michael S. Moorhead, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 2009: aerospace engineering, thermal and fluid sciences. Lorraine G. Olson, Professor; Ph.D., MIT, 1985: application of finite-element methodology to nontraditional areas. Richard M. Onyancha, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., New Hampshire, 2007: manufacturing, mechanics, finite element analysis and metrology with emphasis in micromanufacturing and micrometrology. David J. Purdy, Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering; Ph.D., Purdue, 1981: dynamics, simulation, control system design and analysis. Donald E. Richards, Professor; Ph.D., Ohio State, 1981; PE: heat exchanger design, absorption heat pump technology, multifluid heat exchangers. L. Wayne Sanders, Professor; Ph.D., SMU, 1974; PE: internal-combustion engines, finite-element computational heat transfer, waste heat recovery in gas turbines. David Stienstra, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Texas A&M, 1990: fracture mechanics and fatigue, mechanical behavior of materials. Allen R. White, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Ohio State, 2007: molecular energy transfer. Optical Engineering. Robert M. Bunch, Professor; Ph.D., Kansas, 1981: development of optics-based products, fiber-optic components, light scattering. Richard Ditteon, Professor and Director of the Oakley Observatory; Ph.D., UCLA, 1981: astronomy, geometrical optics, computer-aided optical system design. Galen C. Duree Jr., Associate Professor; Ph.D., Arkansas, 1995: ultrashort pulse lasers and applications, laser physics, nonlinear optics, fiber laser technology, photorefractive phenomena. Sergio C. Granieri, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., La Plata (Argentina), 1998: optical signal processing, RF-photonics, fiber Bragg gratings and fiber-optic components. Charles Joenathan, Professor and Head of Physics and Optical Engineering; Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology (Madras), 1986: speckle techniques, holography, fiber-optic sensors, phase-measuring interferometry. Elaine M. Kirkpatrick, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, 1997: structural and magnetic properties of materials, nanostructured and nanoparticulate magnetic materials. Richard S. Lepkowicz, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Central Florida, 2004: nonlinear and ultrafast spectroscopy, gradient refractive index optics, photonic crystals. Renat R. Letfullin, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Saratov State (Russia), 1992: laser physics, wave optics, quantum optics, nano-optics, biophotonics, nano-medicine, aerosol physics. Michael F. McInerney, Professor; Ph.D., Kent (England), 1978: solid state, materials, electronic packaging; image processing; complexity. Sudipa Mitra-Kirtley, Professor; Ph.D., Kentucky, 1991: X-ray absorption studies with synchrotron radiation, UV-visible absorption and fluorescence studies of organic molecules, innovative teaching methods in physics classes. Michael J. Moloney, Professor; Ph.D., Maryland, 1966: small-scale acoustics experimentation, scientific uses of Excel. Azad Siahmakoun, Professor and Director of Micro-Nanoscale Devices and Systems (MiNDS) Facilities; Ph.D., Arkansas, 1987: nonlinear photorefractive materials and their applications, RF-photonics, nanophotonics, micronanofabrication and semiconductor devices. Maarij Syed, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Notre Dame, 1998: ellipsometric and magneto-optical studies of semiconductors and photorefractive materials. Jerome F. Wagner, Professor; Ph.D., Ohio, 1971: infrared detectors coupled with guided-wave optics and optical lithography. Arthur B. Western Jr., Professor, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Dean of Faculty; Ph.D., Montana State, 1976: optical holographic interferometry, solid-state physics.

Correspondence and Information

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Associate Dean of the Faculty
5500 Wabash Avenue
Terre Haute, Indiana 47803
Telephone: 812-877-8403
Email: gradadmis@rose-hulman.edu