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All Ph.D. students and thesis-option M.S. students are expected to conduct significant research with their research advisors and advisory committee toward their thesis/dissertation. Whether you are interested in research scopes as large as global communications and cyber infrastructure, or as small as micro/nano-scale devices, our graduate programs in ECE will offer you a broad array of exciting areas of study. High-quality research suitable for publication is expected when pursuing the thesis option M.S. or a doctoral degree.

ECE offers a wide variety of research opportunities with faculty who are some of the world鈥檚 foremost experts in their fields. In addition to ECE departmental research groups, interdisciplinary research is an essential component of our graduate programs. Students often conduct research in association with our interdisciplinary centers, institutes, and laboratories, including the following:

• Center for Biomedical Research
• Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies
• Center for Research in Energy and Environment
• Intelligent Systems Center
• Materials Research Center

Emphasis Areas

Integrated circuits and logic design: Topics include hardware/software co-design, IC design, electromagnetic compatibility, VLSI design, and secure embedded systems design.

Networking, security and dependability: Topics include network analysis and synthesis, cyber-physical systems, wireless networks, sensor networks, dependability, and fault tolerance.

Computer architecture and embedded systems: Topics include high performance systems, parallel processors, GPU computing, and heterogeneous systems architecture.

Computational intelligence: Topics include clustering, adaptive resonance and reinforcement learning architectures, learning and adaptation, hardware and applications, neurofuzzy regression, traveling salesman problem heuristics, robotic swarms, bioinformatics, medical informatics, machine vision, and automation.

Degree Requirements

The two types of doctoral degrees offered by this department are the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) and the Doctor of Engineering (D.E.) with a strong emphasis on research with advisor. The primary difference between these two doctoral degrees is that the research portion of the D.E .degree is conducted as an internship with an industrial concern or government laboratory and is jointly supervised by an internship advisor employed by the cooperating organization and a faculty advisor employed by S&T. In contrast, the research portion of the Ph.D. degree is generally conducted on campus.

The doctoral program of study, for the Ph.D. degree or the D.E. degree, should include 90 credit hours (minimum 48 hours coursework and minimum 42 hours research) beyond the B.S. degree or 60 credit hours (minimum 24 hours coursework and minimum 36 hours research) beyond the M.S. degree.