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Why Join the EE department at KFUPM?
KFUPM is a leading school of science and engineering in the Middle East. The Electrical Engineering Department at KFUPM is the biggest department in the Gulf Region and among the best in the Middle East. It has over 50 faculty with recent recruits from top schools in the US and Canada (including Stanford University, Georgia Tech, Michigan Ann Arbor, Virginia Tech, University of Minnesota). The Department offers courses and graduate degrees in most of Electrical Engineering disciplines (including Communications, Control, Electromagnetics, Power, and Signal Processing). The communication and signal processing groups are among the largest groups in the department. Advantages of Joining the Electrical Engineering Dept. at KFUPM
Why a Master Thesis is a Good Thing? If you decide to join KFUPM for your MS, then you need to write a master thesis. Some might consider a master thesis to be a waste of time. I think the opposite is true regardless of whether you intend to go for PhD or not. If you are not planning to go for PhD, then a master thesis would be a chance for you to get the feel and skill of doing research. For the skill to conduct research and write a master thesis could be very useful in any profession you end up pursuing. At the end, either of two possibilities would happen. The first possibility is that you would fall in love with research and change your mind about not going for a PhD. Alternatively, your decision not to go for a PhD would be based on stronger grounds. If you actually plan to go for a PhD, then there are even stronger reasons to do a master thesis:
What type of students I am looking for? I am interested in responsible, disciplined, and self-driven students who are willing to work hard. They need also to be comfortable with mathematics as many of my research problems tend to be mathematically oriented. |