Students with backgrounds in mechanical engineering, physics, electrical engineering, or aerospace engineering are strongly encouraged.
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My son will be starting his 5th year in the program in fall 2022, we hope graduating in 2023 with his PhD in Aerospace Engineering and Scientific Computing. It’s a great group of grad students and Ben Jorns is awesome.
Students with physics degrees typically get PhDs in applied physics. The scientific computing designation “is intended for students who will make extensive use of large-scale computation, computational methods, or algorithms for advanced computer architectures in their doctoral studies.”