For further information please visit the Master of Engineering page. A master's degree may be accepted in lieu of a maximum of 30 credit hours. A minimum of six credit hours of seminar work. A dissertation must be submitted and defended orally before a committee of five faculty members with at least one committee member being from outside the depart- ment of the thesis adviser. All campus offices, research labs, and most undergraduate classrooms are networked with a fiber optic backbone.
Servers provide file storage and backup, print service, and e-mail service.
Direct Internet access is available from each desktop. Within the ECE department, research labs have local networks of Unix or NT workstations which support the specific computational needs of each lab. He is currently involved in exploring a variety of control strategies that include feedback linearization, adaptive, robust, observer based, neural network, and fuzzy type controllers. Susan E. Conry, Associate Professor Ph.D., Rice University Professor Conry's work is currently focused on multiagent systems. Multiagent systems are at the heart of a wide variety of applications in distributed environments.