Qualifying Program Because my undergraduate degree was not in Engineering and the Systems Design Engineering Department applies a filter to grade points from all schools in the United States that changedmy cumulative grade point from Grinnell College (3.18) to something lower than 80%, my supervisor, D. Stashuk, designed a two-term qualifying program that I took in Fall and Winter of '98-'99. By maintaining at least an 80% average with no grades below 75%, I qualified to enter the Master's program in May 1999. Fall 1998
SY DE 214	CC Springer	Statistics
E&CE 250	K. Kontogiannis	Algorithms & Data Structures [C++]
SY DE 252	ME Jernigan	Linear Systems & Signals
M SCI 311	T Astebro	Organizational Design & Technology
SY DE 543	CG MacGregor	Cognitive Ergonomics
Winter 1999
SY DE 221	M Kamel	Software Design [C++, Java]
SY DE 312	K Ponnambalam	Numerical Methods
M SCI 331	M Tajima	Operations Research 1
SY DE 352	F Karray	Intro to Control Systems
SY DE 372	P Fieguth	Intro to Pattern Recognition
Master's Program For the Master's degree we were required to take four courses, regularly attend a weekly seminar, present a seminar on our own research, and complete a Master's Thesis. My Thesis was titled Effective Information Display and Interface Design for Decomposition-Based Quantitative Electromyography. Fall 1999
SY DE 622	MS Kamel	Machine Intelligence
SY DE 624	B Wills	System Simulation: Advanced Topics
Winter 2000
SY DE 675	P Fieguth	[Audit] Pattern Recognition
SY DE 761	JJ Kay	The Epistemology of Systems Thinking
Spring 2000
SY DE 744	C Burns	Ecological Psychology

My grade average across my master's courses was 88.3%.