ELCE Graduate Students Get Together

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ELCE Graduate Students Get Together
Information SessionSummer 2004
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Agenda

• Opening remarks by Roland Yuen, President,
  ELCE/GSA
• Courses, financial and thesis info. by Alagan
  Anpalagan
• Graduate student perspectives by
• Samsheer Sidhu, Year 1, MASc Syed
  Quadri,  Year 2, MASc                          
• ELCE/GSA plans for 2004/05 by Roland Yuen
• Student issues by Arunan Ramalingam, VP-Academic,
  ELCE/GSA
• Refreshments, social activities and more

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• Financial Support
• Teaching Assistantships
• Thesis and Oral Exam
• Graduate Courses
• PhD program
• Move

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Financial Support to Conduct Research

• Full-time research students (MASc, PhD)
• Sources of support scholarships, awards,
  stipends and employment
• NSERC, OGS, OGSST, POA
• RGS (Ryerson Graduate Scholarship)
• RGA (Ryerson Graduate Award)
• Research Assistantship
• Teaching Assistantship

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Internal Scholarships

• RGS Ryerson Graduate Scholarship (competitive,
  based on academic excellence, provided by SGS)
• RGA Ryerson Graduate Award (merit-based,
  program-specific)
• POA Educational Foundation Scholarship
• Dennis Mock Graduate Student Scholarship
• Edward S. Rogers Sr. Graduate School Fellowships

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Ryerson Graduate Scholarship

• Eligibility Min CGPA of 3.67 or equivalent (A-)
  in the last one and two year(s) of study for
  continuing students and new students respectively
• Tenure
• Full-time registration and attendance
• Max of 10 hours/week on employment (e.g. TAing)
• Paid to your tuition account in installments
• Renewal contingent upon you,
• maintaining min CGPA of 3.67 (A-) with no grade
  below B- for MASc (and B for PhD students) and no
  INC, AND
• applying for OGS, NSERC scholarships

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External Scholarships

• OGS deadline Friday, Oct. 15
• NSERC deadline Friday, Oct. 22
• NSERC information session 2nd week of September
• Graduate bursary program (need-based)
• POA Scholarship
• CITO, MMO
• www.ryerson.ca/gradstudies/funding/

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Scholarship Winners 2004/05

• NSERC James Gaston
• OGS/OGSST
• Year 2 Raha Abedi, Alexandru Lafkovici, Wen Zu
• Arun Nanthakumaran, Omar Falou
• Year 1 Ryan Caldwell, Litifa Noor, April
  Khademi,
• Danoush Hosseinzadeh
• POA Scholarship Usman Ahmed
• Congratulations to all the recipients!

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Teaching Assistantships

• CUPE 3 collective agreement
• new term and definition Graduate Assistant (GA)
• List of TAs for 2004/05
• Opportunities in Math, Physics and Computer
  Science department check with them.
• TA workshops on September 9, 12-2 p.m.

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Progress Report

• Mandatory for every PhD/MASc student every term!
• Required for RGS renewal and other considerations
• Deadline for S/S report Friday, Sep. 17
• Specify the anticipated thesis defense date if
  possible

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Oral Examination

• Think of as a 5-week process
• -4 weeks Notification of exam date and exam
  committee (EC)
• -3 weeks Submission of thesis/project copies to
  EC members
• 0 week Oral examination (20-minute oral
  presentation focusing
• mainly on research/project results
  and your contribution)
• 1 week Completion of corrections/revisions and
  submission of
• final thesis to SGS (Terry
  McAfee)
• Acceptance of your thesis/report will be based
  on quality of the written work, and the student's
  ability to defend the work in the oral
  examination
• Oral exams are posted in /gradstudies/oralexams/

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Key Deadlines re. Graduation

• Final date to clear all graduation requirements
• Friday, October 1, 2004
• Friday, February 28, 2005
• Friday, May 13, 2005
• You have to apply to graduate!
• November convocation Friday, July 8, 2004 (Aug.
  12, 2004, with late fees)
• June convocation Friday, January 21, 2005

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Residency Requirement

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• SGS Thesis Guidelines
• gradstudies/policies/
• SGS website as official handbook gradstudies/in
  dex.html

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Graduate Courses

• Fall classes start in the week of Sep. 13
• List of Fall courses
• Winter courses start in the week of Jan. 10
• List of courses
• Make sure you do the registration
• Note the Add/Drop dates

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Graduate Courses Fall 2004

• EE8103 Random Process L. Zhao
• EE8604 Optimization Techniques K.
  Raahemifiar
• EE8105 Digital Signal Processing M. Zeytinoglu
• EE8107 Digital Communications A. Anpalagan
• EE8114 Optical Communication and Networks X.
  Fernando
• EE8202 Digital Image Processing J. Alirezaie
• EE8211 Advanced Topics in Computer Networks
  M. Jaseemuddin
• EE8208 Computer Aided Synthesis Design of
  Digital System
• L. Kirischian
• EE8502 Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits F. Yuan
• EE8504 VLSI Design Automation and CAD Tools R.
  Sedaghat

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Graduate Courses Winter 2005

• EE8108 Multimedia Processing and Communications
  L. Guan
• EE8109 Wireless Communications X. P. Zhang
• EE8110 Coding Techniques for Digital
  Communications S. Krishnan
• EE8603 Advanced Image Processing D.
  Androutsos
• EE8605 Network Security C. Yang
• EE8205 Embedded Software Systems G. Khan
• EE8207 High Performance Computer System
  Design N. Mekhiel
• EE8505 Digital Systems Testing V. Geurkov
• EE8604 Opto-electronics X. Gu
• EE8406 Electric Motor Drives R. Cheung
• EE8407 Power Converter Systems B. Wu
• EE8409 Electro Magnetic Theory A. Hussein

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New Admission - Fall 2004

• PhD (5 approved, 3 pending)
• MASc (36 confirmed)
• MEng (18 confirmed)
• 8 international students
• Acceptance rate of 62 / 390 16

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PhD Program

• Areas Signal Processing and Communications,
  Computer Systems Engineering and Power
  Engineering
• Admission Requirements Masters degree in
  relevant discipline, research potential, min
  grade of A- in graduate courses
• Degree Requirements
• 4 graduate courses
• qualifying exam (written and oral, thesis
  proposal)
• major research thesis resulting in original and
  significant contribution to knowledge in the
  discipline
• Duration typically 3-4 years

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Centre for Computing and EngineeringResource
Allocation Plan (tentative)

• These labs will be moving later
• LEDAR (EPH120) to ENG327
• RML (EPH404) to ENG426
• Emb. Systems (EPH147) to ENG415
• OPRAL (EPH313) to ENG423
• .. look for announcements and instructions in the
  email ..
• EPH237 Computer Lab for all graduate students
• EPH233 Graduate Lounge (photocopier, mailbox
  etc.)

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Centre for Computing and EngineeringMoving

• Electromagnetics (EPH231) to ENG 325
• SoC (EPH323) to ENG313, Aug. 30
• CASPAL (EPH231B) to ENG340, Aug. 31
• CVIP (EPH231A) to ENG340, Aug. 31
• SAR (EPH232) to ENG460, Sep. 01