哲学博士学位是大学创新奖学金和研究成就的最高标志。博士学习可以培养学生为知识做出重大贡献的能力。<br>除了对我们的MS学生所描述的期望之外，博士课程的学生。学位课程将发展确定和概念化研究问题的能力，设计解决问题的科学方法和实验，并以博士学位的形式使他或她的工作取得令人满意的结论。论文。
In addition to the expectations described for our M.S. students, a student in the Ph.D. degree program will develop the ability to determine and conceptualize a research problem, design the scientific approaches and experiments to address it, and bring his or her work to a satisfactory conclusion in the form of a Ph.D. dissertation.<br><br>We further expect that upon graduation, the Ph.D. student will be an expert in the area of the thesis problem and will be well versed on related issues.<br><br>Finally, it is expected that the dissertation research will be of publishable quality and, as a minimum, will be communicated through an oral presentation or poster session at a regional or national scientific meeting and through publication in at least one peer-reviewed journal.