> But yaar I’m finding my government job this monetary
> as well intelligently not that fruitful. I want to
> explore the possibility of employment or research in
> the field of Telecommunication Engineering or Solid
> State Electronics in USA and Canada. I want to work
> in some reputed industry, research lab or pursue PhD
> in above mention field.
>
> I shall be highly thankful if you can suggest me…
>
> 1. Please suggest some good Research lab or
> University in the field of telecommunication
> Engineering?
>
> 2. Is it possible to enroll in PhD at some
> university and then opt out to work in the industry?
>
> 3 Is it now possible to get admission in spring
> 2006, beginning in January?
>
> 4 As I think situation is not easy to resolve. Can
> you suggest immigration to Canada or USA. Then I
> have lot of flexibility to try various options
>
> I had registered for my GRE examination.
>
Hi:
1) It is highly unlikely that you will get directly hired by some research lab
while you are in India...unless maybe you are some exceptional researcher/
scientist. Regarding Universities, please check my previous post and the
Macleans link. The websites of these Universities should provide all the
info about the departments and courses they offer.
Here is a link that has websites of various Universities. Navigate to their
Engineering/Comp. Science departments and you should get all the info
you need:
http://www.uwaterloo.ca/canu/
In terms of good Canadian Universities here are some of the well known ones
for engineering (but again, read my previous post):
o University of Waterloo ( I attended this one so can provide some
more info if you need. ) Try
http://www.uwaterloo.ca/facultiesandcolleges/index.php
o University of Toronto
o University of British Columbia
o McGill, Western Ontario, Queens Universities
(but then again...Candian Universities in general are pretty good no matter
what).
For US ones I guess you can just search on your own. There are
so many here its hard to suggest ones. Many of the good ones might
be long shot unless you have excellent academic credentials.
2) It is probably possible to enroll in a PhD program and then opt for industry
as a way to cheat the system. And I am sure some folks do that. I just hope
you don't.
Personally I find it offensive that someone would cheat the system like that.
This is really cheating in multile ways: a) you are cheating the proffessor
who spends time and his/her grant money on you b) you are depriving
some other well deserving and dedicated student the opportunity to get a
PhD since you end up taking that space. c) you are eating of the tax
payers money (that included me when I was in Canada) and providing
no returns to society or the economy for the money spent on you.
....well I could go on but you got my take on this issue.
Some Universities do allow the student to opt out with a Masters degree
if they no longer pursue or are incapable of meeting the standards
demanded by the PhD...but that depends on University to University.
(BTW most (probably all) Canadian Universities require you to have a masters
before you can be admitted to PhD programs. This is different from US
ones.)
3) Admission of Jan 2006 is highly unlikely...usually you need to apply a
year in advance. But again, a lot of this is dependent on the University.
Send the department an email and see what they say. Of course, read
their web site before you communicate. Most of this kind of information
should be there on the web (FAQs etc).
4) Yeh Immigration is a good move. Very difficult to get US immigration
(unless you have mum/pop as American citizens, or American spouse,
or are already working here and company sponsors you for the green card).
Similer issues are true for Canada as well, except that Canada allows
Independent Immigration application where qualified applicants apply directly
for Immigration. See some other threads regarding this that prove some links
on the subject. But this will likely take time (1-3 years I guess but I am
not current on all this).
Hope this helps....
Raj Rathee