FINANCIAL AID and ASSISTANTSHIPS:

NOTE: International applicants are usually not eligible for financial aid.

EE Department Funding:

The EE department has some LIMITED funds available for carrying out specific work. There are several ways in which a graduate student can help us and at the same time provide themselves with income/TWs. These are: Teaching Assistantships (TAs) and Research Assistantships (Ras). These postions are available ONLY after arrival on site. Students are seldom hired sight unseen in the Electrical Engineering Department. DO NOT contact the EE Department requesting financial aid, financial aid forms, assistantship forms, etc.

Prospective international Ph.D. students must have a faculty member willing and capable of providing an assistantship offer or have sufficient personal funds to study for two years before they will be admitted to the Electrical Engineering Ph.D. program.

  • Graduate Teaching Assistants/Associates are employed by the department to help in carrying out its teaching function. Specific work can range from grading papers through running help/ problem sessions, handling laboratory sections, and (for students who have earned at least 18 graduate credit hours at USF) teaching undergraduate sections. As a rule, the department does NOT hire students for these positions unless they have been at USF for at least one semester.

    All prospective international TA's MUST PASS the TSE or SPEAK test for English ability to be employed as a TA. (passing score for both is 220). Graduate Assistant applications are available in the EE office. Selections of successful applicants are made by the Department Chairman and/or his designate based on the applicant's record and faculty input. Students fill out ALL TA application forms AFTER arrival at USF.

  • Graduate Research Assistants/Associates help individual faculty members carry out their research commitments. They are selected by the research faculty member who needs this assistance. Therefore, students must make their interest in a research assistantship, as well as their special competencies, known to faculty members who might have future openings. A list of faculty members and their research interests appears in appendix A. Incoming students may alert the appropriate faculty members DIRECTLY.

    REMEMBER: Unless you have truly outstanding, documented qualifications, our research faculty are most unlikely to hire students until they are on campus!

Information and applications for positions in other departments are obtained from, and submitted to, these departments directly. Remember: If you are employed on a graduate research or teaching assistant CONTRACT anywhere on campus, you will be placed on the EE department's list for a tuition waiver - after you turn in the TW request form.

GRADUATE SCHOOL DISCRETIONARY FUNDS:

These funds are for current graduate students who have had a paper accepted at a conference, research support for out-of-the ordinary expenses related to theses and dissertation and emergency tuition assistance( not for living expenses). NOTE: For travel and research costs, the Graduate School (GS) requires the student first approach the department for assistance - the GS will then match the amount.

All requests must be received in the GS by the 15th of each month (fall and spring semesters only). See the EE Graduate Program Assistant for forms.

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