美国密苏里理工大学（Missouri University of Science and
Technology）技术报告和研究生招生会
时间：2013 年 9 月 24 日，下午 2：30
地点：玉泉校区行政楼，信息学部，三楼第二会议室
有兴趣的同学请携带简历和成绩单，报告会结束后与 Jim
Drewniak 教授和 Jun Fan 教授面谈。
Graduate Student Opportunities for MS and PHD Students
The Missouri S&T EMC Laboratory is a leader in the field of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
research, and has a staff of approximately 60 people, including 5 tenured professors, 4 research
professors, 2 post-docs, 35-45 MS and PHD students, and 3 full-time support staff. There have been
over 150 graduate students and post-docs go through the EMC Laboratory over the course of the last 20
years, most of who are currently working at US companies. The largest employers of these graduates
are Intel and Cisco, but other employers include IBM, HP, Apple, Micron, and Google among others.
The EMC Laboratory has a $10 million USD state-of-the-art experimental facility that includes 2 EMC
chambers, wafer-probing capabilities, fast scopes, time-domain reflectometers, waveform generators,
network analyzers, and spectrum analyzers up to 50 GHz for EMC, ESD, immunity, signal integrity,
power integrity, and electronics packaging research. The EMC Laboratory building houses the
experimental laboratory as well as cubicles for all students, faculty and post-doc offices, and several
conference rooms.
Electromagnetic compatibility is a broad area that encompasses many aspects of ensuring that highspeed digital electronics, and mixed analog/digital electronics function within the overall electronic
system. For example, electromagnetic interference (EMI) is unintentional radiation from the switching
activities of digital electronics that can interfere with other nearby electronics. EMI limits are regulated
by every country so that intended wireless communications bands remain available for interference-free
use. It is necessary to understand, model, predict, and design to minimize the unintentional coupling
path physics to meet these requirements. Another area, immunity, deals with making the electronics
robust so that they are not susceptible to electromagnetic disturbances that can result for example from
an electrostatic discharge through normal handling of a device. This happens at both the printed circuit
level as well as the IC level. Signal integrity is another area of EMC that entails engineering the
electromagnetics of the signal link path that is routed from the IC onto a package and then a printed
circuit board to another package and IC at data rates that currently exceed 10 gigabits per second with a
low bit error rate.
The Missouri S&T Laboratory is funded predominantly by an industry consortium of nearly 20 global
companies that include Cisco, Intel, IBM, Apple, Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Nvidia, Altera, Huawei,
John Deere, Freescale Semiconductor, and others. The industry companies provide funding for research
projects that are worked on by faculty together with post-doctoral fellows and graduate students. The
funding pays for stipends and tuition for students, as well as salary for post-docs. Most often, the
research will lead directly to an MS or PHD thesis in the process of the company funded research. The
projects span a broad range of topics and focus that includes IC level, package level, and printed circuit
and system level.
There are good career opportunities in all areas of EMC with leading companies. The Missouri S&T
EMC Laboratory has a 100% success rate over the past 20 years in placing students on a career path
with good career growth, and EMC Laboratory faculty share in the responsibility with students in
finding their first job and assisting along their career path. Typically, students will interview with 2 or
more companies prior to graduation, and will have accepted a job well in advance of finishing an MS or
PHD degree. There are typically more requests from companies seeking EMC Laboratory MS and PHD
graduates than students graduating from the lab to fill these positions.
The graduate education and training includes course work and research to develop the technical skills
needed for a successful industry career path, though a few students and post-docs have gone on to be
university professors. Another critical part of the graduate student and post-doc training is working with
industry. Student and faculty teams work on research projects for companies on leading technologies,
and will typically meet weekly with the engineering team at the company to report progress, share ideas,
brainstorm and plan directions. In this environment, students develop organizational and planning skills,
presentation and verbal communication skills, teamwork skills, and leadership skills. This set of soft
skills is necessary for graduates to become technical leaders in industry as their career path progresses,
and is part of the uniqueness of the graduate training and education in the Missouri S&T EMC
Laboratory.
Another critical part of the graduate education and training within the Missouri S&T EMC Laboratory is
internships with companies. Nearly all graduate students will go on company internships for a period of
3-12 months at least once over the course of their degree program. Some students will have more than
one internship period over their degree program if the periods are shorter, and can be at more than one
company. Student internships have been at companies including Cisco, Apple, IBM, Intel, Qualcomm,
Molex, Micron and others. Students receive a normal company engineering salary during the internship
period for their highest completed degree. Then, they return to the university and EMC Laboratory to
continue their graduate degree program and research.
Bright and highly motivated students that have done well in their BS and MS degrees are sought for
opportunities in the Missouri S&T EMC Laboratory for research and training that leads to the MS and
PHD degrees. Students that have completed a BS or MS degree are sought, with any background in
electrical, electrical communications, automation, devices, or computer engineering. A background in
physics is also good preparation. The EMC Laboratory faculty are committed to student success. The
laboratory is a very team-oriented environment with good resources to help a student get started and
succeed. The work has a considerable hardware component, though students do not necessarily need
any background with hardware or measurements. All students that are accepted are fully funded with a
stipend and tuition payment.
Interested students should bring their resume, together with a personal statement to a scheduled Missouri
S&T EMC Laboratory presentation and information session to leave with Professor Jim Drewniak
(drewniak@mst.edu ) or Professor Jun Fan (jfan@mst.edu ).