Electrical Engineering, MSEE

Program Description:

The Department of Electrical Engineering offers a program of graduate study leading to a Master of Science in Engineering (M.S.E.) degree with a major in electrical engineering. The M.S.E. program is broad in scope and emphasizes portable concepts in the design and analysis of complex physical systems using modeling, synthesis, and optimization techniques, and bridges interdisciplinary engineering areas such as control systems, microwave engineering, power electronics, signal processing, very large scale integrated circuits (VLSI), and wireless communications. A Ph.D. in engineering with a major in electrical engineering focus areas is also available. For details, see Engineering Ph.D. Program.

Admissions Requirements:

To be considered for admission to the M.S.E.-Electrical Engineering program, students must first satisfy basic requirements of the Graduate School. This includes having a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related area with an overall undergraduate grade point average of at least 2.9 on a 4.0 scale. International students must have a TOEFL score of at least 550 on the paper-based exam or 213 on the computer-based exam or 79 on the internet based exam or IELTS score of minimum 6.0. In addition, the program requires students from non-ABET accredited undergraduate programs to submit general GRE test scores and the preferred combined (verbal and quantitative) GRE score is of minimum 300. Program admission decisions are based on complete application information including overall academic performance and standardized test scores where applicable. A student may be admitted to the program on a conditional status. Typically, a conditionally admitted student is required to achieve 3.0 GPA of the first two graduate courses (6-8 credit hours) specified by a department advisor. A student with an undergraduate academic deficiency may petition for admission after demonstrating the ability to perform well in graduate courses taken in a non-degree status.

Facilities:

Graduate students have access to a wide range of professional computer tools and physical labs. EE department has 12 research labs: (1) Autonomous Vehicle; (2) Microwave Engineering; (3) Intelligent Control; (4) Power Electronics; (5) RF-Mixed Signal VLSI System; (6) FPGA Digital Systems; (7) Robotics; (8) ATR Center; (9) THz Sensors; (10) Wireless Communication/Cognitive Radio; (11) VLSI Testability; (12) Micro-fabrication. Majority of EE courses have hand on experiments in 9 teaching labs: (1) Circuits; (2) Electronics I; (3) Electronics II; (4) Microwave Engineering; (5) Control I; (6) Robotics/Control II; (7) VLSI Design; (8) FPGA Digital Design; (9) Wireless Communication/Network.

Faculty:

Professors

Elliott Brown (joint appointment with Physics), mm-wave and THz mixers made from semiconductor hot-electron bolometers and magnetically -quantized photoconductors

Chien-In Chen, design and test of digital and mixed-signal VLSI, system-on-a-chip, FPGA/GPU design instrumentation and measurement for signal processors and digital wideband receivers

Marian K. Kazimierczuk, electronic circuit analysis, high-frequency tuned power amplifiers, power electronics, dc-dc PWM and resonant power converters, modeling and control of power converters, magnetic components, renewable energy sources

Kuldip S. Rattan, computer-aided design, digital signal processing and control, bioengineering, robotics

Arnab K. Shaw, communication theory and stochastic processes, estimation and detection, signal modeling and signal processing, simulation of communication systems

Raymond E. Siferd (Emeritus), integrated circuits, signal processing, microelectromechanical systems

Associate Professors

John (Marty) Emmert, physical VLSI design, reconfigurable systems, VHSIC hardware description language (VHDL), verilog, physical design automation for VLSI

Fred Garber, decision theory and pattern recognition with applications to automatic target recognition, communication theory, multipath fading channel communications

Pradeep Misra, multivariable control theory, decentralized system theory, robotics and applied numerical analysis, two-dimensional discrete-time systems and robust control theory

Doug Petkie (joint appointment with Physics), microwave, millimeter-wave, and THz sensing, imaging, radar and spectroscopy applications

Brian Rigling, sensor signal processing, including synthetic aperture radar, autofocus, and array processing, radar systems engineering, parametric modeling and estimation

Zhiqiang (John) Wu, 3G cellular, CDMA systems, multicarrier architectures and frequency domain processing

Kefu Xue (Chair of EE), digital image processing and computer vision, real-time digital signal processing, computer instrumentation

Xiaodong (Frank) Zhang, intelligent control, integrated health management, distributed and cooperative control and smart adaptive systems

Assistant Professors

Saiyu Ren, RF and mixed signal integrated circuits design with applications to wireless transceivers, communications and signal processing

Yan Zhuang, RF and microwave technology, magnetic materials, nano-composite materials, high speed si-based electronics, MEMS/NEMS, micro aerial vehicle and sensors