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General
The School of Engineering is looking for graduate students for research and teaching assistantships in the following disciplinary and multidisciplinary areas:
Chemical Engineering
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Electrical & Systems Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Materials Science & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Studies
Biomedical Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Materials Science
Polymer Science
Graduate assistantships for research and teaching assistantships require part-time service for sponsored research projects and/or the University.
Assistantships, fellowships and other awards from University sources are used in combination with need-based aid to calculate final financial aid amounts offered either for a semester or an academic year. Application for merit aid should be made directly to the academic department. Continuing University of Connecticut graduate students should apply early in the spring semester. New applicants for admission to the Graduate School should apply as early as possible and not later than the deadline imposed by the appropriate academic department. (See the Graduate Admissions Application for merit aid deadlines.)
Criteria and Assistance
Graduate School degree-seeking students and students in the program leading to the Sixth Year Diploma in Professional Education, who meet the criteria listed below, are eligible. Appointments ordinarily are made for the nine-month period, August 23 through May 22, but may be of shorter duration for a variety of reasons. Recipients usually serve the University as teaching assistants, readers, or laboratory and research assistants. They may take fewer than the usual number of courses per year because of this added workload. To be appointed, to retain an appointment, or to be reappointed, a student must have been accorded Regular (not Provisional) status, must have been maintaining a cumulative average of at least B (3.00) in any course work taken, must be eligible to register (i.e., must not have more than three viable grades of Incomplete on his or her academic record), must be enrolled in a graduate degree program scheduled to extend through the entire period of the appointment or reappointment, and must be a full-time student, counting course work and/or its equivalent together with assistantship duties (see "Course Loads"), throughout the period.
The holder of a full assistantship devotes one-half of available time to studies and one-half (approximately 20 hours per week) to assistantship duties, while the holder of a half assistantship ordinarily devotes three-quarters of available time to studies and one-quarter (approximately 10 hours per week) to assistantship duties. Assistantships are not available for less than 10 hours per week.
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