GRA Information
GRA Opportunities
The ElectroScience Laboratory (ESL) offers Graduate Research Associate (GRA) appointments to students enrolled in graduate studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering. A GRA appointment provides a stipend of $1,700 per month. In addition, all academic tuition and fees are waived. Allowances can also be made for health insurance coverage.
GRA appointments are renewable contingent upon satisfactory academic progress, research performance, and the availability of funds. A half-time GRA at ESL is required to spend 20 hours per week on specified research tasks and to carry at least nine quarter hours of graduate courses or research credit per quarter. The research effort is on sponsored ESL contracts and grants, most of which are in the areas of electromagnetics, antennas, scattering, wireless communications, signal processing, remote sensing and optics. While a GRA usually focuses on a particular topic, the appointments themselves are backed by ESL and not just a single research project.
Research at ESL is done within a research team framework. In fact, ESL GRAs normally have the luxury to align their project research topic with their Master's Thesis and Ph.D. Dissertation. They participate in presentations of papers and status reports and converse with ESL corporate and government sponsors. This is one reason ESL graduate students receive so many recruiting offers when they are ready to graduate.
More Information
To learn more about our tradition of excellence in research and education and our goals for the future, contact:
Prof. John Volakis (email)
Director, ElectroScience Laboratory
You may also refer to the faculty directory for research interests of the different professors.
