ECE Fellowship Initiative
A movement has started which could result in fellowship funding of every incoming Ph.D. student.
Some ECE faculty have proposed raising an endowment to financially support every new PhD student with a full fellowship. Strong support for this motion must be gained in order for it to prove successful. With enough voice behind this movement, this proposal could challenge competing outlets for financial support (such as building construction) whose impact on the reputation of Purdue ECE is indirect at best.
Do you feel that fellowship support for Ph.D. students is financially worthwhile?
Will this benefit Purdue's long-term vision?
Make your voice heard! Discuss your thoughts here.
I express strong support for this movement. I feel that, given the options for endowment support, no better impact on the quality of Purdue ECE's graduate program could be made than to draw superior students. Full funding is an extremely competitive offer to be made to incoming students, and would greatly appeal to even the most promising aspiring Ph.D.'s. The worldwide reputation of Purdue is ultimately made by the students, while state-of-the-art facilities or other popular targets of funding have less influence on the power of a Purdue degree. My dismissal of the importance of labs/buildings/equipment may reflect my status as an image processing engineer who only uses a desktop computer for all of my research, however I feel that even solid state programs could see tangible impact by reallocating of funds directly to students. What other thoughts are there on this issue? Huffmalm
