2011–2012 UNIVERSITY CATALOG - Florida Institute of Technology

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Physics, Ph.D. ____________________________ Major Code: 9101 Degree Awarded: Doctor of Philosophy Age Restriction: N Admission status: graduate Delivery Mode/s: classroom only Location/s: main campus Admission Materials: GRE recommended The doctoral degree is conferred primarily to recognize the individual who has demonstrated a satisfactory breadth and level of scientific accomplishment and has the ability to investigate scientific problems independently. It is also expected that the successful candidate for the degree will have advanced or played a significant part in the advancement of fundamental knowledge in physics. Admission Requirements General admission requirements and the process for applying are presented in the Academic Overview section. The GRE scores from both the general and subject test in physics are recommended but not required. Florida Tech students who wish to continue toward the doctoral degree after completing the master’s degree (or after completing 15 semester credit hours of graduate courses) must submit a full application (fee will be waived) to the department. Degree Requirements Students entering the doctoral degree program with a bachelor’s degree must follow the master of science degree requirements listed above for 30 semester credit hours. Students may take six semester credit hours of Research (PHY 6090) or six credit hours of subject courses in place of Thesis (PHY 5999). Students must also complete an additional 45 semester credit hours to satisfy the doctoral program requirements as stated below. Students entering the doctoral degree program with a master’s degree, or a continuing doctoral student with 30 approved semester credit hours of coursework must take five formal on-site Florida Tech courses (equivalent to 15 semester credit hours) and 30 semester credit hours that may include courses listed for the master’s degree, individual study, research and dissertation. A course used for a master’s degree cannot be used to fulfill the doctoral degree requirements. Course substitutions must be approved by the department head and the Graduate Research and Academic Steering Panel (GRASP). Doctoral degree requirements are stated in the Academic Overview section, with one exception. Students must take a comprehensive written examination administered by GRASP (see the department’s graduate handbook for details). Students must take at least 15 semester credit hours of dissertation after admission to candidacy. Students may take Florida Tech formal classroom courses outside of the department (PHY or SPS) only by approval of the department head and GRASP. Space Sciences, Ph.D. ________________________ Major Code: 9132 Degree Awarded: Doctor of Philosophy Age Restriction: N Admission status: graduate Delivery Mode/s: classroom only Location/s: main campus Admission Materials: GRE recommended The space sciences at Florida Tech comprise an interdisciplinary field that includes astronomy, astrophysics, space physics, planetary and solar studies, and physics of lightning. By nature an interdisciplinary subject, graduate study in the space sciences can be narrowly focused within one of these specializations. Florida Tech’s doctoral degree in space sciences provides training with the 200 Florida Tech breadth and depth consistent with the highest-level degree. Such training produces qualified professionals for teaching and research in academic institutions and for research and related work in government and industry. Admission Requirements General admission requirements and the process for applying are presented in the Academic Overview section. GRE scores from both the general and subject test in physics are recommended but not required. Florida Tech students who wish to continue toward the doctoral degree after completing the master’s degree (or after completing 15 semester credit hours of graduate courses) must submit a full application (fee will be waived) to the department. Degree Requirements Students entering the doctoral degree program with a bachelor’s degree must follow the master of science degree requirements listed above for 30 semester credit hours. Students may take six semester credit hours of Research (SPS 6090) or six credit hours of subject courses in place of Thesis (SPS 5999). Students must also complete an additional 45 semester credit hours to satisfy the doctoral program requirements as stated below. Students entering the doctoral degree program with a master’s degree, or a continuing doctoral student with 30 approved semester credit hours of coursework must take five formal on-site Florida Tech courses (equivalent to 15 semester credit hours) and 30 semester credit hours that may include courses listed for the master’s degree, individual study, research and dissertation. A course used for a master’s degree cannot be used to fulfill the doctoral degree requirements. Course substitutions must be approved by the department head and the Graduate Research and Academic Steering Panel (GRASP). Doctoral degree requirements are stated in the Academic Overview section of this catalog with one exception. Students must take a comprehensive written examination administered by GRASP (see the department’s graduate handbook for details). Students must take at least 15 semester credit hours of dissertation after admission to candidacy. Students may take Florida Tech formal classroom courses outside of the department (PHY or SPS) only by approval of the department head and GRASP. RESEARCH Physics Current research in physics includes experimental high-energy physics, experimental and theoretical condensed matter physics, instrumentation development, theoretical and observational studies of the solar/heliospheric energetic particles and cosmic rays, physics of energetic radiations from thunderstorms and lightning, auroral and magnetospheric physics, astrophysics, engineering physics, and physics education. Experimental research in physics is carried out in a variety of laboratories operated by the department, as well as at national and international research facilities. Facilities that are currently available to graduate students include the following laboratories. High-Energy Physics Laboratory (HEP): The HEP experimental efforts have been centered on studying high energy hadron and lepton collisions using large particle physics experiments at major national (Fermilab and BNL) and international (CERN, Switzerland) accelerator facilities, as well as conducting basic
detector technology research and development, and high-performance grid computing in laboratories on the Florida Tech campus. Presently, work is performed on the construction and commissioning of the CMS experiment at CERN. Since 2001, the Florida Tech group has responsibilities for calibration of the hadron calorimeters, Tier0-Tier2 data flow and validation for the Top and B physics analysis groups and precision alignment of the muon endcap detectors. The physics analyses are initially focused on measurements of the properties of the top and bottom quarks and search for new gauge bosons. With anticipated higher luminosities, our physics program will switch to search for the Higgs boson and more exotic phenomena at multi-TeV energy scale. Another main research area is the development and construction of a muon tomography system for detecting high-Z materials hidden in cargo, based on advanced micro-pattern gas detectors such as Gas Electron Multipliers. The HEP lab houses a state-of-the-art Linux-based computing cluster with about 100 CPU cores that is used for muon tomography detector simulation work and serves as a Tier-3 site on the Open Science Grid for CMS data analysis. The group also conducts research and development on advanced particle detector technology for the Super-LHC upgrade programs. In addition Florida Tech is a member of the PHENIX experiment at BNL’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, which is searching for a new state of matter dubbed the “quark-gluon plasma” and the L3 collaboration at the LEP accelerator. Quarknet: The national Quarknet educational outreach research program exposes high school physics teachers and high school students to particle physics through hands-on experimental workshops. The program has built and is operating an educational cosmic ray air shower array distributed over participating high schools in Brevard County. Maglev Laboratory: The primary goal of this lab is the development of a new space launch system for manned and unmanned missions based on electromagnetic acceleration and levitation, in cooperation with NASA, the Florida Space Institutes, and the Advanced Magnet Laboratory, a high-tech industry partner. It houses a 43-foot magnetic levitation and propulsion demonstration track, one of a handful of such devices in the country, and the only one at an academic institution. Physics, space science and engineering students and faculty, together with researchers from the other institutions, are performing investigations in topics such as controls, aerodynamics, mechanical stability, superconducting technology and electromagnetic acceleration and levitation, to study the feasibility of maglev launch assist for rockets and future spacecraft. Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory: The research activities at this lab include condensed matter physics, materials science, statistical physics and engineering physics. Some of the projects involve collaboration with members of Materials Science and Nanotechnology Institute directed by the dean of the College of Science. One of activities is to understand nucleation, growth mechanisms, and evolution of microstructures and nanostructures in materials, to optimize these structures, and finally to design new structures in materials. Another activity is to link processing and structures to various properties of materials, and to predict property of materials by multiscale modeling. Materials include hard and soft materials such as alloys, nanocomposites, colloids and polymers. Other activities also include exploration of the application of statistical physics to anomalous diffusion and relaxation processes in heterogeneous system, biophysics, materials science and econophysics. Scanning Probe Microscopy Laboratory: This facility provides researchers with the ability to image the surface structure of a solid, and to probe the electronic surface properties of a material down to the atomic scale, using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). This laboratory also investigates novel applications of the STM (e.g., in the field of electrochemistry) and is interested in the development of other types of scanning probe microscopes. Space Sciences Current research activity in space sciences includes: gravitational redshifts and evolution of white dwarf stars, observations and modeling of cataclysmic variables and other close binary systems, astrophysical jets and accretion phenomena, observational cosmology, cosmic-ray modulation/propagation and its interactions with the interstellar medium, energetic radiation from terrestrial and planetary lightning discharges, solar wind-magnetosphere interactions and energetic particle observations and human space exploration research. Experimental research in space science is carried out in a variety of laboratories operated by the department, as well as at national and international research facilities. Facilities that are currently available to graduate students include the following laboratories: Astronomy and Astrophysics Laboratory: Astrophysicists and students work on a wide variety of topics, including the evolution of white dwarf stars, simulations of cataclysmic variable systems, astrophysical fluid dynamics, accretion phenomena, the physics and evolution of active galactic nuclei and their jets, cosmology, solar and stellar atmospheres, ultraviolet spectroscopy and astronomical instrumentation. The astrophysics group includes professors working in a variety of different wavebands from the radio to x-rays, including observations with the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer satellite, as well as ground-based optical and radio observatories. Members of the group are involved in the development of instrumentation for the CanariCam Science Team, a guaranteed-time program on the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias, the world’s largest optical telescope. Resources include Linux computers, astronomical data reduction packages including IRAF, AIPS and CIAO. Ortega 0.8-m Telescope: This is the largest research telescope in the state of Florida and forms the heart of the F.W. Olin Observatory. Installed in 2007, it sits on the rooftop of the F. W. Olin Physical Sciences Center. Equipped with a large-format CCD imaging system and spectrograph, it is available for student and faculty astronomy and astrophysics research projects as well as monthly public guest nights. SARA 0.9-m Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory and 0.6-m Telescope at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory: Florida Tech is the administrative institution for the Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy (SARA). See “Research” in the Institution Overview section for more information. Geospace Physics Laboratory (GPL): This facility is a collection of four major laboratories that host all of Florida Tech’s space physicists, planetary scientists and their students’ research projects. These labs are outlined below (GPL–A-D). In a joint operation with UCLA of California, Florida Tech is hosting a 10-site meridional array of magnetometers along the east coast of the United Degree Programs—College of Science 201
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2011-2012 UNIVERSITY CATALOG
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TABLE OF CONTENTS INSTITUTION OVERV
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Wind and Hurricane Impacts Research
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Independent Colleges and Universiti
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ACADEMIC OVERVIEW GENERAL STUDENT I
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Florida Tech University Online Stud
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1. Complete the online admission ap
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Languages French Language 4 LNG 110
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Four-Year Guarantee A four-year gua
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Minors Florida Tech offers minor pr
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Extended Studies Division Applicati
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Master’s Degree Policies Classifi
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completed by all Ph.D. students sub
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Probation and Dismissal Master’s
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Aviation Computer Science, B.S. ___
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AVF 4009 Helicopter Turbine Transit
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Nathan M. Bisk College of Business
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BACHELOR’S DEGREE PROGRAMS Accoun
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Construction Management CVE 5035 De
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Freshman Year FALL CREDITS ASC 1000
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SPRING AVS 1201 Aviation Meteorolog
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Degree Requirements The Master of S
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REFERENCES ACADEMIC CALENDARS Main
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