The Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute

Background:

The Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute (DAGSI) is a unique partnership between the University of Dayton, a private institution; Wright State University, a state-supported institution; and the Air Force Institute of Technology, a federal institution. Its primary long-term goal is to become a world-class graduate and post-graduate research institute, ranking among the top of such institutions in the United States. DAGSI coordinates, integrates, and leverages the formidable resources of the partnership-including the combined faculty, facilities, equipment, and other supporting elements of all three institutions. The benefits of this partnership are exceptional for all involved, and especially for the DAGSI graduate students.

The requirement for DAGSI primarily relates to the need for enhanced economic development in the region, particularly in the aerospace, automotive and related high-technology industrial sectors. We believe that an environment conducive to substantial economic development can be achieved by improving and expanding regional educational and research opportunities at the masters and doctoral level of engineering and computer science. With this goal, the three partnership institutions have combined the resources of their schools of engineering to form DAGSI. The added strength and leverage of this union are further illustrated by the following:

• A combined engineering teaching and research faculty of 234 professional educators within a six-mile radius
• A combined production of 25 Ph.D. and 514 MS degrees each year
• A broad spectrum of over thirty major research areas, from Aerodynamics to VLSI/VHSIC Integrated Circuit Design.
• Over 200 specific research project areas, from computational fluid dynamics to biomaterials to radar microwave circuits.
• Nearly 1200 graduate level engineering courses, supporting 25 distinct majors at the MS level and 14 at the Ph.D. level.
• Over 250 research laboratories in 17 Buildings, most of which are supported by outstanding technical computer systems, from minicomputers to integrated workstations and mainframes.
• Exceptional technical libraries, with strong journal collections in engineering, mathematics and the physical sciences, and reciprocal usage and borrowing agreements, permitting access by any DAGSI student to the library holdings of all three partner institutions.
• Access to Ohio Link, a growing computer network of libraries and electronic information resources throughout the State of Ohio, and a national leader in library and information services technologies.
• Linkage to the personnel, facilities and other resources of Wright Laboratory, a unique federal laboratory complex, through a formal Educational Partnership Agreement, as permitted by public law.

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