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: scientist, General Dynamics Corp.

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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