UD School of Engineering - Electrical Engineering - Graduate Programs and Research

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering offers programs of study leading to:

The master's degree is primarily instructional; however, a thesis option is available. The Doctor of Engineering is granted in recognition of superior achievement in course work and an independent project. The project will usually be broad in scope, involve more than one discipline or subdiscipline and be closely tied to an industrial application. The Doctor of Philosophy is granted in recognition of superior achievement in independent research and course work. The research must demonstrate that the student possesses capacity for original thought, talent for research, and ability to organize and present findings.

The department is also an integral part of the interdisciplinary electro-optics program, which offers both master's and doctorate degrees in electro-optics.

The research focus areas of the department faculty include:

Electromagnetics and signal processing
Optical processing and nonlinear optics
Signal and image processing
Microelectronic devices and RF applications
Control theory and systems, and digital systems

The department maintains state-of-the-art labs and computing facilities that support a hands-on approach to education. We have seven computing facilities that offer top-of-the-line PCs and provide school-standard software, as well as industry-specific software, such as MATLAB, FPGA development tools from Alterra, Xilinx and Microsfot Visual Studio Pro, design tools for mixed signal ICs , simulation tools, SDRC IDEAS, Master-Series, ADAMS and ANSYS.

The electrical and computer engineering department also has ten specialized laboratories: Microfabrication Lab, Optical Information Processing Lab, Photonics Lab, Signal Processing Lab, Systems and Control Research Lab, Communications Networks Lab, Opto-Electronics Devices Lab, Ham-Radio Lab, Ultraviolet Laser Lithography Lab, and Computational Electromagnetic Lab.

The department collaborates locally and internationally with companies in many countries, including Canada, France, Lebanon, Egypt, Greece and Sweden. Some of the organizations our professors collaborate with are AFIT, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Delphi, Ball Aerospace and Monsanto.