Professor William A. Sirignano

PLEASE READ THE INFORMATION BELOW CAREFULLY IF YOU HAVE ANY INTEREST IN WORKING AS A STUDENT WITH PROFESSOR SIRIGNANO. Realize that he receives many informal inquiries from prospective students daily and IS NOT ABLE TO RESPOND because of the huge amount of time that would be required for responses to all of these communications. Please appreciate that his teaching, student mentoring, and research obligations demand his full attention; thus, an efficient means of communication with prospective students is needed. This website is designed to give those students as much useful information as possible about Professor Sirignano and his research and education interests.

There should be positions for new graduate students this coming Fall in our research group. Stipends and support for tuition and fees can be available when required for admitted students. Professor Sirignano cannot respond with any advice to an inquiry by a prospective graduate student who informally sends a CV and asks for an evaluation of the likelihood of gaining entrance. It is not possible to make a meaningful assessment of any individual's qualifications or likelihood of success at admission without seeing the completed formal application with reference letters in the standard format, transcripts, and official reports of GRE scores. So, it is best to make the formal application if you have a strong interest. If you note on your application that you have a special interest in performing your research for the MS Thesis and / or PhD dissertation with Professor Sirignano, that application should be circulated to him by our administrators responsible for application processing and then he will carefully examine it.

As noted elsewhere in this web site, graduate students who have worked with Professor Sirignano have generally enjoyed very successful professional careers in academia, government, and industry. Several topics of major interests are studied within the group at any one time. The list of publications and the copies of slide presentations for research seminars, given elsewhere in this web site, should provide a useful overview of the research activities. The available graduate courses and degree requirements can be found at the UCI MAE web site http://mae.eng.uci.edu

Many students, especially from foreign universities, communicate with us requesting a research internship with Professor Sirignano. We only accommodate students who are prepared to pay their own costs and can stay for a period of at least one year, which is a minimal time to accomplish a significant piece of research. We receive a large number of internship requests; so, if the ability to spend a year is not clearly stated in the communication from the student, we do not respond. Evidence of top academic standing and four years of university education is required.