Graduate Student Information
(Astronomy Program, Department of Physics and Astronomy)
(Georgia State University)
Number of graduate students who applied to the program, number enrolled,
number of Masters and Ph. D.s awarded, for each year since 1990
Year
|
No. Students Applied
|
No. Enrolled
|
Masters Awarded
|
Ph. D.s awarded
|
| 1990 |
24 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
| 1991 |
29 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
| 1992 |
33 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
| 1993 |
26 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| 1994 |
32 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
| 1995 |
30 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
| 1996 |
27 |
4 |
2 |
1 |
| 1997 |
31 |
5 |
0 |
1 |
| 1998 |
22 |
4 |
1 |
3 |
| 1999 |
25 |
4 |
3 |
1 |
| 2000 |
23 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
| 2001 |
21 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
| 2002 |
26 |
7 |
2 |
4 |
Current number of graduate students in the department: 21
Percentage of men/women: 71/29
International students: 7 (China, Guyana, India (2), Korea, Taiwan, Thailand)
Average number of years to Ph.D. (averaged over the years since 1990): 5.5
CAREER PATHS
First, second, and/or current positions held by Ph.D. graduates since
1990:
person #1: post-doc, scientist Computer Science Corp./IUE;
assistant professor, Western Kentucky U.
person #2: assistant professor, associate professor, King Fahd U., Saudi Arabia
person #3: post-doc, scientist, manager CSC/IUE; consultant, venture capitalist
person #4: post-doc Naval Research Lab; support scientist for EOS DIS, Hughes IT Systems
person #5: post-doc, US Naval Obs; astronomer, USNO
person #6: assistant professor, associate professor, National Taiwan Normal U.
person #7: post-doc, U. Illinois, Urbana; assistant professor,
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India
person #8: Harlan J. Smith fellow, U. Texas; staff astronomer, Cornell U.
person #9: assistant professor, Kyung Hee U., Korea
person #10: instructor, Western Kentucky U.; staff astronomer, Boston U.
person #11: post-doc, U. Montreal; assistant professor, College of Charleston
person #12: post-doc; staff scientist, Inst. Paper Science & Tech., Georgia Tech
person #13: post-doc; manager of education and public outreach, SIRTF/IPAC, Caltech
person #14: post-doc; staff astronomer, Mt. Wilson Inst. & CHARA
person #15: post-doc; staff scientist, Los Alamos National Lab
person #16: scientist, Rocketdyne Technical Services, Air Force Telescope,
Hawaii
person #17: assistant scientist and associate director, Whole Earth Telescope,
Iowa State U.
person #18: Senior Systems Engineer, General Dynamics Corp, NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center
person #19: post-doc, U. Delaware
person #20: associate professor, Southern Polytechnic State U
person #21: post-doc, CHARA
person #22: NRC post-doc, NASA/GSFC
First, and if possible second, positions held by Masters graduates since
1990:
person #1: staff scientist, STScI
person #2: Ph.D. student in remote sensing, U. Hamburg; scientist, Phillips
Research (medical imaging)
person #3: laboratory coordinator, De Kalb College; Ph.D.
student in Electrical Engineering, Florida International U.
person #4: Ph.D. student in Astronomy and Electrical Engineering, U. Illinois, Urbana
person #5: Ph.D. student in Computer Information Systems, Georgia State U.
person #6: software engineer, TS Design
person #7: Ph.D. student in Computer Information Systems, Georgia State U.
person #8: instructor in Astronomy, Perimeter College
person #9: Ph.D. student in Space Physics, M.I.T.
person #10: secondary school teacher, Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, Georgia
person #11: Ph.D. student in Computer Science, U. Virginia
Number of Ph. D. graduates since 1980: 25 (first Ph. D.s only awarded in 1989)
Current positions for those not already listed in 1990- section:
person #1: associate professor, National Central U., Taiwan
person #2: astronomer, USNO
person #3: senior research associate, Armaugh Obs., Northern Ireland
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Percentage of graduate students receiving support as TAs: Most graduate students
teach several labs in their first and second years and occasionally teach labs in
their third
and fourth years; TA funding is roughly 30% of total funding.
Are graduate TAs given any training in pedegogy?: Yes
If so, how much? What sort?: One semester hour course in their first
semester. Supervised laboratory instruction in first year.
RESEARCH ASSISTANTS
Percentage of graduate students receiving support as RAs: All full-time students not
having their own fellowships receive RA support. RA funding is roughly 65% of
total funding.
Number of student coauthors on papers published since 1990: All graduate students
have coauthored papers, typically before the end of their second year.
OTHER INFORMATION which the department would like posted:
Our latest BAAS report
gives research program
information.
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