MS ELECTRICAL ENGG ASU

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY



LOCATION:
Graduate College
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Interdisciplinary B #170 (formerly Administration B)
PO Box 871003
Tempe, AZ 85287-1003

UNIVERSITY DETAILS

Arizona State University (ASU) is the largest public research university in the United States under a single administration, with total student enrollment of 67,082 as of fall 2008. It has four campuses across the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. The university is governed by the Arizona Board of Regents.

ASU first opened as the Tempe Normal School for the Arizona Territory in Tempe, Arizona in 1885. It subsequently was renamed Arizona State College in 1945, but by 1958, steady growth and expanded academic offerings resulted in a statewide ballot initiative in which the voters of Arizona, by a two-to-one majority, mandated that the institution be given university status. On December 5, 1958, Arizona State College was renamed Arizona State University, the only institution of higher education to have achieved university status by popular mandate.


RANK & RECOGNITION

ASU is ranked 121st in the top tier of "national universities" by the US News and World Report ranking of US colleges and universities.

In addition, US News named ASU as the #4 "Up and Coming" university in the US, for substantial improvements to academics and facilities

In the US News and World Report guide to graduate schools: The W. P. Carey School of Business MBA program was ranked 22nd and the undergraduate business program ranked 25th. Many of the individual programs rank in the top 25 nationwide, including the 4th ranked program in Supply Chain Management and the 11th ranked program in Information Systems.

ASU takes forward step in forecasting global warming : Arizona State University researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding the effect on climate change of a key component of urban pollution. The discovery could lead to more accurate forecasting of possible global-warming activity, say Peter Crozier and James Anderson.

Crozier is an associate professor in ASU’s School of Materials, which is jointly administered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. Anderson is a senior research scientist in the engineering school’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

As a result of their studies of aerosols in the atmosphere, they assert that some measures used in atmospheric science are oversimplified and overlook important factors that relate to climatic warming and cooling.

The work is part of the Aerosol Characterization Experiment (ACE) program, which encompasses three projects to date, carried out by hundreds of researchers from multiple countries.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Degree Awarded: MSE Electrical Engineering

The Electrical Engineering faculty in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering offer a professional program leading to the Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) degree with a major in Electrical Engineering. Graduate courses and programs are offered in the following six areas of specialization:

• Control systems
• Electromagnetics, antennas and microwave circuits
• Electronic and mixed-signal circuit design
• Electric power and energy systems
• Signal processing and communications systems
• Solid-state electronics

Courses are available on-campus and online. The degree can be completed taking classes in any combination of on-campus and online modes.

A dual degree, the MBA/MSE EE, is available as an online option. For more information, visit the W. P. Carey School of Business MBA site and the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering GOEE site.

Cost: The approximate total cost of the dual degree is $48,100 for in-state students and $50,000 for out-of-state students for the three year period - a savings of more than $12,800 (in-state) or $15,600 (out-of-state) than if the degrees were pursued independently.

Application Deadlines:
The application deadlines are December 31 for Fall admission and July 31 for Spring admission

GRE SCORE :
EE program specific:
Score at least 720 on the quantitative portion of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and a good score on the writing portion.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY REQUIREMENT
EE program specific:
English language by scoring at least 550 on the written Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), 213 on the computer-based TOEFL (CBT), or 83 on the Internet-based TOEFL (iBT).

General:
Minimum score of 500 (paper-based), 173 (computer-based), or 61 (internet-based) on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
Minimum overall band of 6.0 with no band below 5.5 on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS)


APPLICATION DETAILS

It’s a automated application process, to fill follow the below link

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When you have completed your application and are ready to submit it, you can pay your application fees via credit card online or you can mail a check or money order to the admissions office. No application will be processed until the application fee is paid.

Fee: $80 for each Non-U.S. citizen graduate degree and non-degree application.

Required Materials

Materials to send directly to the program:

• Your Official Transcripts/Academic Credentials from each institution attended,
• Professional resumé,
• A statement of purpose containing your reasons and goals for graduate study, and a list of awards, honors or publications
• Financial Guarantee : $36,300 and should fill a form for Financial Guarantee, which is available on the college website
• Three letters of recommendation from faculty or professionals who can comment on your research and scholarly capabilities
• Supplemental Materials : The academic unit(s) to which you have applied may require additional application materials.

COST OF LIVING
As per current students there ; living is around 500 - 600 dollars per month including stay,groceries,net,mobile etc. Books depends on department, they are quiet expensive if u buy them from here. For some branches I guess the books used in India can be used here or at least Asian version of books is available which is cheaper.

ACCOMMODATION

The best offer will be something ranging from $ 205 - $240 per person, including water, gas, electricity and also internet.

STUDENT EMPLOYMENT

During vacations off campus jobs are allowed

Teaching and Research Assistance
Obtaining this is possible from 2nd semester; getting it in 1st semester is difficult

SCHOLARSHIPS

Plenty of scholarships are available like

• Barbara Jean Wegener Scholarship,
• Carl L. Soderberg Scholarship,
• Donald J. and Genevieve W. Kersten Scholarship
• Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research Program

International students have to be wary of their opportunity as these are offered only to the best of all.

Refer

And still we have a life line called Student Loans

STUDENT LOANS

International students qualify alternative loans and has to choose from list of lenders from Finaid.org (If you are dependent on this, do make a cross check from your immediate seniors and other possibilities of funding)

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Very good job opportunities to get into really renowned communication companies.



STUDENT EXPERIENCE

Arun : Hello Guys !! I am Arun from Chennai. I completed my Masters in Arizona and specialized in wireless communication. I choose Arizona for two main reasons, they have a forum named connection-one which does exclusive research in wireless communication, and two , the climate there is very similar that in chennai, so no problems in adapting. I had a wonderful time at the university.

Lakshminarayanan: There is a lot of flexibility in learning in the US due to the credit system. Also you get international recognition and respect in India after you come back. These factors made me try for a degree in the US. I'd applied to a few universities, but the Arizona was the best admit, renowned for Electrical Engineering... signal processing and communications were offered together as a field of specialization. Studying abroad has been a great experience!

Let's Meet INSPIRATION

Hi ,

Nice to see you again.,Sorry that i cant post for a while, we will continue our good times from now on:) I have something for you all, really inspiring and interesting... While browsing around "you tube" happened to see commencement address by Steve job (CEO of Apple).,



I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.



I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me - I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.



Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.


Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.


Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

Hope you liked that :)