3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. This course is aimed at training graduate students in the basic aspects of experimental physics, such as instrumentation, data acquisition, and statistical treatment of data and error analysis, introduction to modern equipment control and data acquisition with LabVIEW, equipment design, detectors and interfaces.
3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Photometry, stellar models, variable stars, white dwarfs, neutron stars, supernovae, cosmic rays, galaxies and galactic structure, and introduction to cosmology.
3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Methods to overcome resistance to writing and approach to become productive scientific writers. Writing methods and techniques for manuscript, dissertation, thesis preparation. Fundamentals of funding proposal writing. Critical reading and reviewing.
3 hours credit. Prerequisites: Permission of the Graduate Advisor of Record and dissertation director. Preparation and writing of the Doctoral dissertation. May be repeated for credit, but not more than 12 hours will apply to the Doctoral degree.
3 hours credit. Prerequisites: Permission of the Graduate Advisor of Record and dissertation director. Doctoral research and preparation in the chosen area of concentration. May be repeated for credit, but not more than 21 hours will apply to the Doctoral degree.
3 hours credit. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Formal presentations of research by outside authorities, as well as current research seminars presented by faculty, visiting lecturers, and Ph.D. candidates. The grade report for this course is either "CR" (satisfactory participation in the seminar) or "NC" (unsatisfactory participation in the seminar). This course may include a written component.
3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. The directed research course may involve either a laboratory or a theoretical problem. Normally a written report is required. This course may be repeated for credit, but not more than 6 hours will apply to the Master’s degree, or 18 hours toward the Doctoral degree.
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No. Under the conditions of the Research Assistantship, we are not allowed to seek other employment.
Southwest Research Institute
6220 Culebra
San Antonio, Texas
