Dear Brian,
Selecting a graduate program is not only dependent upon its ranking.
Rankings exist in various fields - research, the ratio of
students/professors and even the level of parties in the dorms.
Selecting a graduate program depends also on the type and number of
grants you can receive, on the career placement service the
lab/program has for its students and graduates, and most importantly -
since you;re going to work with a supervisor - on the supervisor and
your personal relationships with him. When you come from a place like
Taiwan, you should also consider the level of support for
international students, and even the size of the Chinese community in
the university - you may not think of it right now, but even a grad
student feels lonely sometimes and needs some support from something
he or she knows.
Here are several highly ranked programs. In any case, I recommend that
before you begin with the application process, you'll make contact
with the professors and researchers, and ask questions that interest
you about the institute. I have used ranking from various sources, and
included the ranking of the engineering school - but not all highly
ranked engineering schools offer a fuel cell graduate program, hence
differences between the rankings here and in the general ranking (for
example: this list's second is ranked "only" fourth among US
engineering schools).
The Sloan Automotive Lab & MIT Energy Lab in MIT ("Massachusetts
Institute of Technology - Cambridge, Massachusetts"),
<http://engine.mit.edu/> offers a research program on fuel cells.
(Ranked first among Engineering Grad programs in the US according to
the US News and World Report).
Georgia Tech has a research centre for Fuel Cell and Battery
Technology <http://www.fcbt.gatech.edu/>. The program (classes and
research) might be available for graduate participation through their
Graduate College of Engineering <http://www.coe.gatech.edu/>. The
school is ranked 4th in US News and World Report among engineering
schools.
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) offers a research program within
its School of Engineering <http://www.engin.umich.edu/dept/meam/>. The
school is ranked 6th among US Schools of Engineering.
The Center for Electrochemical Systems at the Texas A&M University
offers a research program on the subject. The university is ranked
12-13th among the US Engineering schools.
<http://engineer.tamu.edu/tees/ceshr/>
The Electrochemical Engine Center <http://mtrl1.me.psu.edu/> at Penn
State, has also programs for graduates <see general graduate program
for the university at http://www.gradsch.psu.edu/>. It is ranked
15-16th among US engineering schools.
The Water Chemistry Program at the University of Wisconsin - Madison,
offers research program on fuel cells
<http://www.engr.wisc.edu/interd/wcp/>. It is ranked 15-16th among US
engineering schools (like the former).
The Dept. of Chemistry, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and the Center
for Energy and Environmental Studies at Princeton University
<www.princeton.edu/~abbgroup/fuel.html>, offers a research program on
fuel cells. It is ranked 18th in the US News and World Report ranking.
Department of Materials Science at the Northwestern University
<http://www.matsci.northwestern.edu/> offers a research program on the
subject. It is ranked 20th among engineering schools in the US.
The National Fuel Cell Research Center in the US is in the University
of California in Irvine <http://www.nfcrc.uci.edu/index.ASPX>.
Information on their graduate program is available here
<http://www.nfcrc.uci.edu/aboutnfcrc_index.htm>.
The Schatz Energy Research Center in Humboldt University in
California, also deals with fuel cell solutions
<http://www.humboldt.edu/~serc/index.shtml>. Graduate Studies
information is available here
http://www.humboldt.edu/%7Egradst/gradinfo.shtml>, and information for
international students is available here
<http://www.humboldt.edu/~interntl/>.
Boston University, College of Engineering has a prgram at the Green
Manufacturing Research <http://www.bu.edu/mfg/grad/green.htm> Center.
The Virginia Tech Center for Automotive Fuel Cell Systems
<http://filebox.vt.edu/eng/mech/emi/GATE.htm> has several graduate
programs (see under "Center Programs").
The Ernest B. Yeager Center for Electrochemical Sciences in Case
Western Reserve University <http://electrochem.cwru.edu/yeager/> is
part of the Case school of engineering <http://www.case.cwru.edu/>.
Graduate program might fit you there.
May I disclaim again, that this ranking is by no means "official" and
that there are many variables in ranking. It is only based on the
ranking of engineering schools in US News and World Report and other
sources, integrated with the list of fuel cell institutions in the US
as provided at <http://www.fuelcells.org/career/university.htm>.
Further Information:
Fuel Cell Related Sites - http://www.gmi.edu/~altfuel/links.htm
Worldwide Directory of Graduate Schools for Electrochemical Science
and Engineering - US Universities -
<http://electrochem.cwru.edu/estir/grads.htm#USA>
Fuel Cells 2000's Career Resource Center
<http://www.fuelcells.org/career/university.htm>
"Engineering Fellowships Available - Under its Graduate Automotive
Technology Education (GATE) program, the U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE) has selected ten universities as Centers of Automotive Research
in five technology areas. Each Center receives $200,000 from DOE to
develop a multidisciplinary curriculum for graduate study and $100,000
for fellowships. These fellowships will help develop advanced
technologies critical to the design and production of future
automobiles. For more information on the GATE Program, contact Nancy
Garland at DOE Headquarters, telephone: 202/586-5673"
<http://www.ipd.anl.gov/gate/intro.html>
Top US Engineering Schools
<http://www.stanfordplus.com/education/studentszone/useng01.php>
Tops Schools by Discipline
<http://www.infozee.com/indiatimes/channels/ms/usa/branch-rankings.htm>
As a note, I would recommend that you'll edit your question and remove
the email and personal details (such as address) you put there - this
could be used by illicit parties (such as spammers).
I hope that answered your question. Please contact me if you need any
clarification on the answer. Good Luck in School! |
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