M.Eng. in Engineering Physics

The primary objective of the one-year master of engineering in engineering physics is to provide an opportunity for advanced study at the professional level. Students who earn the Engineering Physics M.Eng. degree are prepared to move into development or research appointments in industrial or governmental institutions.

Students combine a research or design project with electives selected from a variety of graduate fields related to applied physics or engineering physics. Courses include a core curriculum of applied quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and applied mathematics, in addition to electives in areas of applied physics, computer science, engineering or biotechnology.

The degree requirements permit considerable flexibility in the course program, which is planned by the student in consultation with their faculty advisor.

• Total number of credits = 30 hours minimum/4000 level or higher
• No grade below C-
• Only 2.0 credits of the 30 hrs minimum may be taken S/U

The research or design project is chosen by the student in consultation with the M.Eng. director and is typically carried out under the direction of the student’s faculty advisor, although an appropriate member of the engineering or science faculty may be appointed from outside the field, subject to the approval of the M.Eng. program director. The research project, experimental or analytical, can be in any area of research undertaken by faculty. It requires individual effort and culminates with a formal report. It is usually completed by the end of the second semester but permission to continue through the summer may be obtained.

Examples of recent research and design projects completed by students in the program:

• Chemical synthesis and nonlinear optics in microchannels
• On-chip DNA quantification
• Fabrication of graphene-based devices for the study of atomic membrane interfaces
• Silicon nanocrystals for solar cells
• Engineering a radio-frequency scanning tunneling microscope
• Spatially-resolved photocurrent imaging of PbSe quantum dots
• Characterization and measurement of femtosecond pulses using autocorrelation techniques
• Computational simulation of electrohydrodynamic systems pertaining to microand nano-scale fluid flow phenomenon
• Compensation of wake-field-driven energy spread in energy recovery linacs
• 1550nm normal-dispersion femtosecond mode-locking fiber laser
• Technology demonstration of the scanning Double Half Wave Interferometer for use on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
• Vacuum ultraviolet photo ionization studies of fuel-rich ethylene flames
• Wrinkle-based strain-Engineering of WSe2 quantum emitters

The goal is to gain a specialization in an applied field. One course must be taken in the fall semester and the other in spring semester. This list is not exclusive, speak with your faculty advisor regarding other options.