The Master of Engineering degree allows more flexibility in planning graduate study. Five courses must be in Electrical Engineering, but the remainder may be in telecommunications, business, or other areas. A variety of televised courses in the College of Engineering are offered each semester, some by live television transmission and some by video tape. Thin Films Group Meeting Ph.D. Degree. The Doctor of Philosophy is principally a research degree.
Students pass a written and oral preliminary examination and an oral comprehensive examination.
The former covers material common to most undergraduate and first-year graduate programs in electrical and computer engineering. The latter covers the student's research specialty and consists largely of a comprehensive examination of the student's proposed dissertation research. The student also completes an oral defense of his or her thesis. Laboratories Major laboratory facilities are available in bioengineering, communication engineering, computer engineering, imaging systems, microwaves, materials, solid-state electronics, optics, power, signal processing, robotics and VLSI design automation. The Electrical and Computer Engineering department has an extensive heterogeneous computing environment.