Teaching Assistantships

Department of Computer Science, Stevens Institute of Technology

Teaching Assistant Application

Please fill in the form completely and email to the TA Coordinator (ta-coordinator @ cs.stevens.edu).  You should receive an acknowledgement within 48 hours.  Send either HTML or PDF attachments.  You are advised to save the HTML so you can easily resubmit when applying for renewal of a TA position.

Position Being Applied For:

    TA ___      MS GA ___      PhD GA ___

    A TA normally requires 20 hours/week, provides a stipend and tuition waiver for up to 9 credits, and does not allow work beyond TA duties (unless you are engaged in research).  A MS GA (graduate assistant) normally requires 10 hours/week and carries a tuition waiver but no stipend.  A PhD GA normally requires 10 hours/week and carries a stipend but no tuition waiver. This is typically beneficial to a PhD student who has completed his/her credit requirements, but whose advisor does not have funding to support their research.

Term Being Applied For:

    Fall ___   Summer I ___   Summer II ___   Spring ___

Last Name:

First Name:

Address:

Telephone:

Email address:

Degree(s) being pursued:  BS ___      MS   ___   PhD   ___

Standardized Test Scores

General GRE Scores: 

    Verbal (500 min):  
    Quantitative (750 min):  
    Analytical:  

Optional Subject GRE Score (Computer Science):

TOEFL (575, 230, or 75 min):  

Grades

Convert all grade averages to either percent or (0.0..4.0) scale.  Also make clear for which institution grades are being reported.  If more than one, report GPA per school.

Undergraduate

    School:    ________________________________________         GPA (3.5 min):

Graduate

    School:    ________________________________________         GPA (3.5 min):

Computer Languages and Systems:

    Languages: C ___      C++ ___   C# ___   Java ___   Pascal ___   Haskell ___   Modula-2/3 ___   Haskell ___   Lisp ___   Scheme ___   ML ___   Pyton ___   Perl ___   Prolog ___  

    Databases:     Informix ___   Ingres ___   Oracle ___ MS-Access ___  

    Operating Systems:   UNIX ___   Windows XP ___   Mac OS X ___

    Please add a paragraph describing any major system implementation that you have done:

Background Courses:

Course title	Grade	Institution	Semester and Year	Experience TAing?	Confident in Ability to TA?
Assembly Language/Computer Architecture
Data Structures
Analysis of Algorithms
Principles of Programming Languages
Calculus
Discrete Math
Formal Languages/Automata Theory
Operating Systems
Software Engineering
Database Systems
Compiler Design/Implementation
TCP/IP Networking
Secure Computer Systems
Mobile and Pervasive Computing
Human and Computer Interaction
Operating Systems
Web Programming
Data Mining
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Computer Graphics
Cryptography
Health Informatics
Object Oriented Analysis/Design
Privacy

Please elaborate below if you have experience TAing a course or feel confident in your ability to TA a course.  For example, you may feel confident because you took the course with the instructor and he/she has expressed a desire to ask that you be his TA in future.  Or you are taking QSE courses and feel confident that you can TA the Software Engineering course (CS551/552):






If you list any courses that do not appear on your transcript on file with the graduate school, you must attach an official transcript here.  Please be accurate.  If you list grades or test scores in error, your application for TA will be rejected.  Such supplementary materials can be left in the mailbox of the TA coordinator (Prof J. Oliensis) in the CS Dept office, or they can be FAXed to the CS office at +1 (201) 216-8249. If you have already provided such supplementary materials in a previous application, please indicate so with this application.

Optional letters of recommendation: Letters of recommendation weigh quite a bit in applications, particularly from the instructor who will be teaching the course.  Simply the fact that you did extremely well in a course, or that you are doing research with the recommender, can help.  You can either provide letters of recommendation as part of supplementary materials, or have the recommender send the recommendation via email to ta-coordinator @ cs.stevens.edu.  If you feel you performed very well as a TA, be sure to have the instructor send an evaluation to the TA coordinator.

Current TA Needs (Spring 2010):

    Freshman Courses (well-spoken English very important; knowledge of Java requested by CS115 instructor)
    Data Structures
    Computer Org, Arch
    Systems (Systems Programming, OS, Network Management)
    Web Programming
    Databases
    Software Engineering ( grad software engineering courses now in Systems School. Contact them for TAs )
    Programming Languages
    Data Mining
    Compilers
    Discrete Math
    Object Oriented Analysis
    TCP/IP Networking
    Mobile and Pervasive Computing
    Theory (Complexity)
    Algorithms
    Computer Vision
    Machine Learning
    Real time rendering and gaming
    Graphics
    Gaming and Real Time Rendering
    Security and Enterprise Security
    Cryptography
    Privacy

Last updated: Nov 19, 2008.