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The generic term teaching assistant includes a variety of positions defined by the university. Almost all appointments for Teaching Assistants in the EE Department are officially "Course Assistants" as defined by the university. A Course Assistant (CA) is a graduate or coterminal student who works part time helping an instructor with a class. The CA's responsibilities can include office hours for individual student assistance, review or study sessions, occasional lectures, preparation of assignments, grading exams and projects, and solutions. A CA for a laboratory class may also be responsible for laboratory supervision, equipment, or demonstrations.
Eligibility
By University regulations a CA must have graduate standing or be a
coterminal student with at least 180 units completed. The CA
appointments are not restricted to EE students, but priority is given to
EE and CS students.
A student with TGR status can be appointed as a CA; however no matter which percent appointment is held ONLY the TGR fee will be paid. Any units taken will be at the CA's own expense.
The position of CA usually refers to a students deemed fully qualified by the department in terms of background, experience, language skills. In some case CA appointments may be made at lower salaries for students without full qualifications for limited responsibilities in assisting courses.
Matriculated Stanford graduate students may be appointed as Research Assistants. Co-terminal students who have completed 180 units in prior quarters are also eligible and may receive the accompanying tuition grant. Honors Co-op students are not eligible for assistantships. Students must be registered during any quarter in which they hold an appointment.
Non-matriculated students, graduates-at-large and undergraduates are not normally eligible for CA and RA appointments and are never eligible for tuition credit. Information on CA, RA, and grader appointments can be obtained through the Department Office. TA applications can be completed on the Web at http://audi.stanford.edu/appl/.
Registration
All students holding
assistantships, including undergraduates and Postdoctoral Research
Affiliates, must be registered for a minimum of 8 units and not more
than 10 units
in every quarter in which the
assistantship appointment is held. The Department will not distribute
assistantship checks until registration has been verified by a
current-quarter student body card.
Percentage of Appointment The normal assistantship appointment is for 25% or 50% time. Appointments for more than this percentage, or two concurrent appointments totaling more than 50% during the academic year, require the PRIOR approval of each of the following:
Recommendations for such appointments should indicate academic progress of student and anticipated degree completion date; student must have been admitted to candidacy. Approval will be granted only where such an appointment will not interfere with progress to their degree and will normally not be granted for more than a one-year maximum.
Summer Appointments The maximum summer quarter assistantship provided is 90%, and this appointment includes three units of TAL (or TGR). Unless they are TGR, students with a 90% assistantship must enroll in 1-3 units of research, directed study, or course work.
Students with 90% appointments who are eligible to register TGR should enroll in the usual TGR course, 801/802.
Work in Addition to Appointment or
Fellowship
Students on full fellowship or 50%-time assistantship may
work only an additional 8 hours a week. NOTE: International students on
F or J visas may not work more than 50% time.
Graders
Grader assignments are available with payment on an hourly
basis. Graders are appointed by the Instructor with the approval of
Lourdes Ventura, Financial Associate,
EE Student Services, Packard 172. There are no tuition grants
available with grader jobs. The hourly rate of pay for graders is as
follows:
| Undergraduates | $12.00 per hour |
| Graduates | $13.00 per hour |
| Super Graders | $14.00 per hour |
The number of hours per week depends on class size. It is Department policy to provide 15 minutes of support per student per homework assignment.
A list of classes needing graders is posted each quarter to the EEWeb site. Contact the instructors listed directly regarding appointment. See Tasha Newson, Student Services Director, in Packard 173 for Grader Applications.
Teaching Assistants
Most teaching assistants carry a 50% appointment and work about 20
hours per week. The Department also offers 25% (10 hours per week) and
10% (4 hours per week) appointments.
Appt Pre-Quals CA Post Quals CA
50% $ 7,020 $7,530
25% $ 3,510 $3,765
10% $ 1,404 $1,506
Appt Mentoring TA and Teaching Affiliate
50% $7,926
25% $3,963
Tuition Grant
$8,040 8- 10 UNITS FOR 50% APPOINTMENT
$4,020 5 UNITS FOR 25% APPOINTMENT
$ 1,608 PRORATED FOR 10% APPOINTMENT
$ 2,760 TGR
Because of the shortened summer quarter, summer Assistants receive 80% of the listed stipend.
Research Assistants
A typical Research Assistantship appointment is from October 1 to June
30. A 50% RA is expected to work 20 hours per week on research,
averaged over each three-month quarter. Breaks between quarters can be
used as vacations as long as the RA maintains an average of 20 hours per
week during the appointment. The salary and tuition scale for EE
Research Assistants is listed below. The scale for RA's employed by
other departments may vary.
| Maximum | ||||
| units of | units of | |||
| %Time | tuition | registr. | Pre-Quals | Post Quals |
| on RA. | per qtr. | per qtr. | ($/mo.) | ($/qtr.) |
| 50% | 8-10 | 8-10 | $7,020 | $7,530 |
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