Electrical Engineering

About the Program

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE): 45.0 - 48.0 quarter credits
Doctor of Philosophy: 90.0 quarter credits

The program in electrical engineering prepares students for careers in research and development, and aims to endow graduates with the ability to identify, analyze and address new technical and scientific challenges. At present, the department offers graduate coursework in six general areas: (1) computer engineering; (2) control, robotics and intelligent systems; (3) electrophysics; (4) image and signal processing and interpretation; (5) power engineering and energy; and (6) telecommunications and networking.

The Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree requires a minimum of 45.0 approved credits chosen in accordance with a plan of study arranged with the permission of a student’s advisor and the departmental graduate advisor. Students who complete a six-month period of internship through Drexel’s Graduate Co-op Program (GCP) must complete 48.0 credits including 6.0 GCP credits.

The plan must contain a selection of core courses from the department's offerings and may include appropriate graduate courses from other engineering departments or from physics or mathematics. Further information can be obtained from the department office or from the graduate advisor.

All students also are encouraged to engage in thesis research. The combined thesis and research cannot exceed 9 credits.The program is organized so that a student may complete the degree requirements in two years of full-time study or three years of part-time study.

For more information about the programs, including information about teaching and research assistantships, visit the Department's Electrical Engineering web site.

Admission Requirements

Applicants must satisfy general requirements for graduate admission, including a minimum 3.0 GPA (on a 4.0 scale) for the last two years of undergraduate studies, as well as for any subsequent graduate work, and hold a bachelor's degree or the equivalent in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or the equivalent from an accredited college or university. A degree in science (physics, mathematics, computer science, etc. ) is also acceptable. Applicants with degrees in sciences may be required to take a number of undergraduate engineering courses. An undergraduate degree earned abroad must be deemed equivalent to a U.S. bachelor's.

Applicants for full-time MS and PhD programs must take the GRE general test. Students whose native language is not English and who do not hold a degree from a U.S.institution must take the TOEFL within two years before application.

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering 

The Master of Science in Electrical Engineering curriculum encompasses 45.0 or 48.0 (with the Graduate Co-op option) approved credit hours, chosen in accordance with the following requirements and a plan of study arranged with the departmental graduate advisor in consultation with the student’s research advisor, if applicable. Before the end of the first quarter in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, for a full-time student, or by the end of the first year for a part-time student, said plan of study must be filed and approved with the departmental graduate advisor.

A total of at least 30.0 credit hours must be taken from among the graduate course offerings of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. These credits must be taken at Drexel University. No transfer credit may be used to fulfill these requirements, regardless of content equivalency.


Electrophysics Concentration
Required Courses
Six Electrophysics Courses (ECEE courses)18.0
Four General Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECEC, ECEE, ECEP, ECES, ECET) courses12.0
Total Credits30.0

Controls, Robotics, Intelligent Systems Concentration
Required Courses
ECES 511Fundamentals of Systems I3.0
ECES 512Fundamentals of Systems II3.0
ECES 521Probability & Random Variables3.0
ECES 522Random Process & Spectral Analysis3.0
Three General Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECEC, ECEE, ECEP, ECES, ECET) Courses9.0
Select three of the following:9.0
Optimal Estimation & Stochastic Control
Optimal Control
Computer Control Systems
Intelligent Control
Non-Linear Control Systems
Machine Learning & Adaptive Control
Total Credits30.0

Power Engineering
Required Courses
ECEP 501Power System Analysis3.0
ECEP 502Computer Analysis of Power Systems3.0
ECEP 503Synchronous Machine Modeling3.0
Five General Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECEC, ECEE, ECEP, ECES, ECET) Courses15.0
Select one of the following sequences:6.0
Fundamentals of Systems I
Fundamentals of Systems II
Probability & Random Variables
Random Process & Spectral Analysis
Total Credits30.0

Signal/Image Processing
Required Courses
ECES 521Probability & Random Variables3.0
ECES 522Random Process & Spectral Analysis3.0
ECES 523Detection & Estimation Theory3.0
ECES 631Fundamentals of Deterministic Digital Signal Processing3.0
ECES 682Fundamentals of Image Processing3.0
Five General Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECEC, ECEE, ECEP, ECES, ECET) Courses15.0
Total Credits30.0

Non-designated Specialization
Required Courses
Three 3-course Departmental Sequences **27.0
General Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECEC, ECEE, ECEP, ECES, ECET) Courses3.0
Total Credits30.0

**

Students should check with the departmental graduate advisor for more information about these sequences.


Options for Degree Fulfillment

With the remaining required 15.0 credit hours, students may take graduate coursework, subject to the approval of the departmental graduate advisor, in electrical and computer engineering, mathematics, physics or other engineering disciplines.

Although not required, students are encouraged to complete a Master’s Thesis as part of the MS studies. Those students who choose the thesis option may count up to 9.0 research/thesis credits as part of their required credit hour requirements.

Students may choose to participate in the Graduate Co-Op Program, where 6.0 credit hours can be earned for a six month co-operative education experience in industry, working on curriculum related projects. The total number of required credit hours is increased to 48.0 for those students who choose to pursue the Graduate Co-Op option. This change represents an increase in non-departmental required credit hours to a total of 18.0 credit hours, 6.0 of which are earned from the co-operative education experience.

Please note that ECEC 500 (Fundamentals of Computer Hardware) and ECEC 600 (Fundamentals of Computer Networks) do not count toward the credit requirements to complete the MS in Electrical Engineering degree program.

For more information on curricular requirements, visit the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s web site.

PhD in Electrical Engineering

General Requirements
The following general requirements must be satisfied in order to complete the PhD in Electrical Engineering:

  • 90.0 credit hours total
  • candidacy examination
  • research proposal
  • dissertation defense

Students entering with a master’s degree in electrical or computer engineering or a related field will be considered a post-masters PhD student and will only be required to complete a total of 45.0 credit hours, in accordance with University policy.

Curriculum

Appropriate coursework is chosen in consultation with the student’s research advisor. A plan of study must be developed by the student to encompass the total number of required credit hours. Both the departmental graduate advisor and the student’s research advisor must approve this plan.

Candidacy Examination

The candidacy examination explores the depth of understanding of the student in his/her specialty area. The student is expected to be familiar with, and be able to use, the contemporary tools and techniques of the field and to demonstrate familiarity with the principal results and key findings.

The student, in consultation with his/her research advisor, will declare a principal technical area for the examination. The examination includes the following three parts:

  • A self-study of three papers from the archival literature in the student’s stated technical area, chosen by the committee in consultation with the student.
  • A written report (15 pages or less) on the papers, describing their objectives, key questions and hypotheses, methodology, main results and conclusions. Moreover, the student must show in an appendix independent work he/she has done on at least one of the papers – such as providing a full derivation of a result or showing meaningful examples, simulations or applications.
  • An oral examination which takes the following format:
    • A short description of the student’s principal area of interest (5 minutes, by student).
    • A review of the self-study papers and report appendix (25-30 minutes, by students).
    • Questions and answers on the report, the appendix and directly related background (40-100 minutes, student and committee).

In most cases, the work produced during the candidacy examination will be a principal reference for the student’s PhD dissertation; however, this is not a requirement.

Research Proposal

Each student, after having attained the status of PhD Candidate, must present a research proposal to a committee of faculty and industry members, chosen with his/her research advisor, who are knowledgeable in the specific area of research. This proposal should outline the specific intended subject of study, i.e. , it should present a problem statement, pertinent background, methods of study to be employed, expected difficulties and uncertainties and the anticipated form, substance and significance of the results.

The purpose of this presentation is to verify suitability of the dissertation topic and the candidate's approach, and to obtain the advice and guidance of oversight of mature, experienced investigators. It is not to be construed as an examination, though approval by the committee is required before extensive work is undertaken. The thesis proposal presentation must be open to all; announcements regarding the proposal presentation must be made in advance.

The thesis advisory committee will have the sole responsibility of making any recommendations regarding the research proposal. It is strongly recommended that the proposal presentation be given as soon as possible after the successful completion of the candidacy examination. The student must be a PhD candidate for at least one year before he/she can defend his/her doctoral thesis.

Dissertation Defense

Dissertation Defense procedures are described in the Office of Graduate Studies policies regarding Doctor of Philosophy Program Requirements. The student must be a PhD candidate for at least one year before he/she can defend his/her doctoral thesis.

Dual Degree

The ECE Department offers outstanding students the opportunity to receive two diplomas (BS and MS) at the same time. The program requires five (5) years to complete. Participants, who are chosen from the best undergraduates students, work with a faculty member on a research project and follow a study plan that includes selected graduate classes. This program prepares individuals for careers in research and development; many of its past graduates continued their studies toward a PhD.

For more information on eligibility, academic requirements, and tuition policy visit the Engineering Combined BS/MS page.

Facilities

Drexel University and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department are nationally recognized for a strong history of developing innovative research. Research programs in the ECE Department prepare students for careers in research and development, and aim to endow graduates with the ability to identify, analyze, and address new technical and scientific challenges. The ECE Department is well equipped with state-of-the-art facilities in each of the following ECE Research laboratories:  

Research Laboratories at the ECE Department

Courses

ECES 510 Analytical Methods in Systems 3.0 Credits

This course is intended to provide graduate student in the field of signal and image processing with the necessary mathematical foundation, which is prevalent in contemporary signal and image processing research and practice.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 511 Fundamentals of Systems I 3.0 Credits

Core course. Covers linear operators, including forms and properties (differential equations, transfer function, state space, causality, linearity, and time invariance); impulse response, including convolution, transition matrices, fundamental matrix, and linear dynamical system; definition, including properties and classification; representation, including block diagrams, signal flow, and analog and digital; properties, including controllability and observability; and eigenstructure, including eigenvalues and eigenvector and similarity transformations.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 512 Fundamentals of Systems II 3.0 Credits

Core course. Covers realization and identification, including minimal realization, reducibility and equivalence of models, and identification of systems; stability, including bounded input-bounded output, polynomial roots, and Lyapunov; and feedback compensation and design, including observers and controllers and multi-input/multi-output systems.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECES 511 [Min Grade: C]

ECES 513 Fundamentals of Systems III 3.0 Credits

Core course. Covers multivariable systems, numerical aspects of system analysis and design, design of compensators, elements of robustness, and robust stabilization.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECES 512 [Min Grade: C]

ECES 521 Probability & Random Variables 3.0 Credits

Probability concepts. Single and multiple random variables. Functions of random variables. Moments and characteristic functions. Random number and hypothesis testing. Maximum likelihood estimation.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 522 Random Process & Spectral Analysis 3.0 Credits

Random Process. Poisson Process, Shot Noise. Gaussian Process. Matched Filters. Kalman Filters. Power Spectral Density. Autocorrelation and cross correlation. PSD estimation. Entropy. Markov Processes. Queuing Theory.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECES 521 [Min Grade: C]

ECES 523 Detection & Estimation Theory 3.0 Credits

Detection of signals in noise. Bayes criterion. NP criterion. Binary and M_ary hypotheses. Estimation of signal parameters. MLE and MAP estimation. 1D and 2D signals. ROC Analyses. Decision fusion.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECES 521 [Min Grade: C] and ECES 522 [Min Grade: C]

ECES 558 Digital Signal Processing for Sound & Hearing 3.0 Credits

Introduction to the computational modeling of sound and the human auditory system. Signal processing issues, such as sampling, aliasing, and quantization, are examined from an audio perspective. Covers applications including audio data compression (mp3), sound synthesis, and audio watermarking.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECES 631 [Min Grade: C]

ECES 559 Processing of the Human Voice 3.0 Credits

Introduction to the computational modeling of the human voice for analysis, synthesis, and recognition. Topics covered include vocal physiology, voice analysis-synthesis, voice data coding (for digital communications, VoIP), speaker identification, speech synthesis, and automatic speech recognition.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECES 631 [Min Grade: C] and ECES 558 [Min Grade: C]

ECES 604 Optimal Estimation & Stochastic Control 3.0 Credits

Introduction to control system problems with stochastic disturbances; linear state space filtering, Kalman Filtering, Non-linear systems; extended Kalman Filtering. Robust and H-infinity methods.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECES 522 [Min Grade: C]

ECES 607 Estimation Theory 3.0 Credits

General characteristics of estimators. Estimators: least squares, mean square, minimum variance, maximum a posteriori, maximum likelihood. Numerical solution. Sequential estimators.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 614 Passive Network Synthesis 3.0 Credits

An introduction to approximation theory; driving point functions; realizability by lumped-parameter circuits; positive real functions; properties of two and three element driving point functions and their synthesis; transfer function synthesis; all-pass networks.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 615 Analysis & Design of Linear Active Networks 3.0 Credits

DC and AC models of bipolar transistors and FETs; design of differential operational amplifiers; optimal design of broad-band IC amplifiers; design of tuned amplifiers; design for optimal power gain, distortion, and efficiency; noise in transistor circuits.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 621 Communications I 3.0 Credits

Covers modulation techniques: baseband PAM, passband PAM, QAM, and PSK; orthogonal signaling: FSK; symbol/vector detection: matched filter and correlation detector; sequence detection: ISI; equalization: adaptive and blind; carrier synchronization; and timing recovery.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 622 Communications II 3.0 Credits

Covers shot noise, noise in detectors, analog fiberoptic systems, carrier and subcarrier modulation, digital systems bit error rates for NRZ and RZ formats, coherent optical communication systems-heterodyne and homodyne systems, wavelength division multiplexing, system design concepts, power budgets, rise time budgets, and optical switching networks.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 623 Communications III 3.0 Credits

Covers fundamentals of information theory: information measure, entropy, and channel capacity; source encoding and decoding; rate distortion theory; linear codes; block codes; convolutional codes, Viterbi algorithm; encryption and decryption; and spread spectrum communications.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 631 Fundamentals of Deterministic Digital Signal Processing 3.0 Credits

Fundamentals of Deterministic Digital Signal Processing. This course introduces the fundamentals of deterministic signal processing.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 632 Fundamentals of Statistical Digital Signal Processing 3.0 Credits

Fundamentals of Statistical Deterministic Digital Signal Processing. The course covers topics on statistical signal processing related to data modeling, forecasting and system identification.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECES 631 [Min Grade: C]

ECES 640 Genomic Signal Processing 3.0 Credits

This course focuses on signal processing applied to analysis and design of biological systems. This is a growing area of interest with many topics ranging from DNA sequence analysis, to gene prediction, sequence alignment, and bio-inspired signal processing for robust system design.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 642 Optimal Control 3.0 Credits

This course introduces the Modern Control concepts: linear quadratic performance and practical designs for engineering applications. Topics include: calculus of variations, differential games and H-infinity methods.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECES 512 [Min Grade: C]

ECES 643 Digital Control Systems Analysis & Design 3.0 Credits

Covers analysis and design of sampled-data control system using Z-transform and state-variable formulation, sampling, data reconstruction and error analysis, stability of linear and non-linear discrete time systems by classical and Lyapunov's second method, compensator design using classical methods (e.g., rootlocus) and computer-aided techniques for online digital controls, optimal control, discrete-time maximum principle, sensitivity analysis, and multirate sampled-data systems.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECES 641 [Min Grade: C]

ECES 644 Computer Control Systems 3.0 Credits

Introduction to the fundamentals of real-time controlling electromechanical dynamic systems, including modeling, analysis, simulation, stabilization and controller design. Control design approaches include: pole placement, quadratic and robust control performances.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 651 Intelligent Control 3.0 Credits

Concepts of Intelligence in Engineering Systems, Learning Automation, Principles of Knowledge Representation. Levels of Resolution and Nestedness. Organization of Planning: Axioms and Self-Evident Principles.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 660 Machine Listening and Music IR 3.0 Credits

This course introduces methods for the computational analysis, recognition, and understanding of sound and music from the acoustic signal. Covered applications include sound detection and recognition, sound source separation, artist and song identification, music similarity determination, and automatic transcription.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECES 631 [Min Grade: C] and ECES 558 [Min Grade: C]

ECES 670 Seminar in Systems I 2.0 Credits

Involves presentations focused on recent publications and research in systems, including communications, controls, signal processing, robotics, and networks.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 671 Seminar in Systems II 2.0 Credits

Continues ECES 670.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 672 Seminar in Systems III 2.0 Credits

Continues ECES 671.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 681 Fundamentals of Computer Vision 3.0 Credits

Develops the theoretical and algorithmic tool that enables a machine (computer) to analyze, to make inferences about a "scene" from a scene's "manifestations", which are acquired through sensory data (image, or image sequence), and to perform tasks.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 682 Fundamentals of Image Processing 3.0 Credits

The course introduces the foundation of image processing with hands-on settings. Taught in conjunction with an imaging laboratory.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECES 631 [Min Grade: C]

ECES 684 Imaging Modalities 3.0 Credits

This course is intended to produce students and image processing with a background on image formation in modalities for non-invasive 3D imaging. The goal is to develop models that lead to qualitative measures of image quality and the dependence of quality imaging system parameters.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 685 Image Reconstruction Algorithms 3.0 Credits

This course is intended to provide graduate students in signal and image processing with an exposure to the design and evaluation of algorithms for tomographic imaging.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECES 684 [Min Grade: C] and BMES 621 [Min Grade: C]

ECES 690 Special Topics in Systems Engineering 9.0 Credits

Covers special topics of interest to students and faculty.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit

ECES 697 Research In Systems Engineering 9.0 Credits

Research in systems engineering.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit

ECES 699 Supervised Study in Systems Engineering 9.0 Credits

Supervised study in systems engineering.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit

ECES 801 Advanced Topics in Systems I 3.0 Credits

Familiarizes students with current research results in their field of interest, specifically in works reported in such journals as The IEEE Transactions.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit

ECES 802 Advanced Topics in Systems II 3.0 Credits

Continues ECES 801.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit

ECES 803 Advanced Topics in Systems III 3.0 Credits

Continues ECES 802.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit

ECES 811 Optimization Methods for Engineering Design 3.0 Credits

Applications of mathematical programming and optimization methods in engineering design problems such as networks, control, communication, and power systems optimization. Optimization problem definition in terms of objective function, design variables, and design constraints. Single variable and multivariable search methods for unconstrained and constrained minimization using Fibonacci, gradient, conjugate gradient, Fletcher-Powell methods and penalty function approach. Classical optimization--Lagrange multiplier, Kuhn-Tucker conditions. Emphasis is on developing efficient digital computer algorithms for design.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 812 Mathematical Program Engineering Design 3.0 Credits

Approximation theory projection theorem. Solution of nonlinear equations by Newton-Raphson method. Resource allocation, linear programming, and network flow problems. Integer programming for digital filter design and power system expansion problems. Gamory's algorithm.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 813 Computer-Aided Network Design 3.0 Credits

Simulation and circuit analysis programs: PCAP, MIMIC, GASP. Data structures. Algorithms. Languages. Interactive I/O. Integration of subroutines for simulation.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 817 Non-Linear Control Systems 3.0 Credits

Non-Linear Systems: analysis, stability and control, Lyapunov stability, singular perturbation methods. Feedback system: Describing Functions, Circle and Popov criteria.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECES 512 [Min Grade: C] and ECES 642 [Min Grade: C]

ECES 818 Machine Learning & Adaptive Control 3.0 Credits

System identification and parameter estimation, gradient search, least squares and Neural Networks methods. Closed loop implementation of system learning and self-organizing controllers. Random searching learning systems.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECES 512 [Min Grade: C]

ECES 821 Reliable Communications & Coding I 3.0 Credits

Covers fundamentals of information theory, including measures of communication, channel capacity, coding for discrete sources, converse of coding system, noisy-channel coding, rate distortion theory for memoryless sources and for sources with memory, and universal coding.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECES 521 [Min Grade: C] and ECES 522 [Min Grade: C]

ECES 822 Reliable Communications & Coding II 3.0 Credits

Introduces algebra of coding, including groups, rings, fields, and vector fields. Covers finite fields, decoding circuitry, techniques for coding and decoding, linear codes, error-correction capabilities of linear codes, dual codes and weight distribution, important linear block codes, perfect codes, and Plotkin's and Varshamov's bounds.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECES 821 [Min Grade: C]

ECES 823 Reliable Communications & Coding III 3.0 Credits

Continues techniques for coding and decoding. Covers convolutional codes; Viterbi algorithm; BCH, cyclic, burst-error-correcting, Reed-Solomon, and Reed-Muller codes; and elements of cryptography.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECES 822 [Min Grade: C]

ECES 890 Advanced Special Topics in Systems Engineering 1.0-9.0 Credit

Covers advanced special topics of interest to students and faculty.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit

ECES 898 Master's Thesis in Systems Engineering 9.0 Credits

Master's thesis in systems engineering.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit

ECES 921 Reliable Communications & Coding I 3.0 Credits

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

ECES 997 Dissertation Research in Systems Engineering 1.0-12.0 Credit

Graded Ph.D. dissertation in systems engineering.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit

ECES 998 PhD Dissertation in Systems Engineering 1.0-12.0 Credit

Ph.D. dissertation in systems engineering.

College/Department: College of Engineering
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty

Fernand Cohen, PhD (Brown University). Professor. Surface modeling; tissue characterization and modeling; face modeling; recognition and tracking.
Kapil Dandekar, PhD (University of Texas-Austin) Director of the Drexel Wireless Systems Laboratory (DWSL); Associate Dean of Research, College of Engineering. Associate Professor. Cellular/mobile communications and wireless LAN; smart antenna/MIMO for wireless communications; applied computational electromagnetics; microwave antenna and receiver development; free space optical communication; ultrasonic communication; sensor networks for homeland security; ultrawideband communication.
Afshin Daryoush, ScD (Drexel University). Professor. Digital and microwave photonics; nonlinear microwave circuits; RFIC; medical imaging.
Bruce A. Eisenstein, PhD (University of Pennsylvania) Interim Dean, College of Engineering. Professor. Pattern recognition; estimation; decision theory.
Adam K. Fontecchio, PhD (Brown University) Electrical and Computer Engineering. Associate Professor. Electro-optics; remote sensing; active optical elements; liquid crystal devices.
Gary Friedman, PhD (University of Maryland-College Park). Professor. Biological and biomedical applications of nanoscale magnetic systems.
Eli Fromm, PhD (Jefferson Medical College) Roy A. Brothers University Professor / Director for Center of Educational Research. Professor. Engineering education; academic research policy; bioinstrumentation; physiologic systems.
Edwin L. Gerber, PhD (University of Pennsylvania) Assistant Department Head for Evening Programs. Professor. Computerized instruments and measurements; undergraduate engineering education.
Allon Guez, PhD (University of Florida). Professor. Intelligent control systems; robotics, biomedical, automation and manufacturing; business systems engineering.
Mark Hempstead, PhD (Harvard University) Junior Colehower Chair. Assistant Professor. Computer engineering; power-aware computing; computer architecture; low power VLSI Design; wireless sensor networks.
Peter R. Herczfeld, PhD (University of Minnesota) Lester A. Kraus Professor/Director, Center for Microwave/Lightwave Engineering. Professor. Lightwave technology; microwaves; millimeter waves; fiberoptic and integrated optic devices.
Leonid Hrebien, PhD (Drexel University) Graduate Advisor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Affairs. Professor. Tissue excitability; acceleration effects on physiology; bioinformatics.
Paul R. Kalata, PhD (Illinois Institute of Technology). Associate Professor. Stochastic and adaptive control theory; identification and decision theory; Kalman filters.
Moshe Kam, PhD (Drexel University) Robert G. Quinn Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department Head. Professor. Decision fusion and sensor fusion; mobile robots (especially robot navigation); pattern recognition (especially in handwriting applications); optimization and control.
Nagarajan Kandasamy, PhD (University of Michigan). Associate Professor. Embedded systems, self-managing systems, reliable and fault-tolerant computing, distributed systems, computer architecture, and testing and verification of digital systems.
Bruce Katz, PhD (University of Illinois). Adjunct Professor. Speech communication and computer science; artificial intelligence.
Youngmoo Kim, PhD (MIT). Associate Professor. Audio and music signal processing, voice analysis and synthesis, music information retrieval, machine learning.
Timothy P. Kurzweg, PhD (University of Pittsburgh). Associate Professor. Optical MEM modeling and simulation; system-level simulation; computer architecture.
Karen Miu, PhD (Cornell University). Professor. Power systems; distribution networks; distribution automation; optimization; system analysis.
Bahram Nabet, PhD (University of Washington) Associate Dean for Special Projects, College of Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering. Professor. Optoelectronics; fabrication and modeling; fiber optic devices; nanoelectronics; nanowires.
Prawat Nagvajara, Ph.D. (Boston University). Associate Professor. System on a chip; embedded systems; power grid computation; testing of computer hardware; fault-tolerant computing; VLSI systems; error control coding.
Dagmar Niebur, Ph.D. (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). Associate Professor. Intelligent systems; dynamical systems; power system monitoring and control.
Chika Nwankpa, PhD (Illinois Institute of Technology). Professor. Power system dynamics; power electronic switching systems; optically controlled high power switches.
Karkal S. Prahbu, PhD (Harvard University). Auxiliary Professor. Computer and software engineering; advanced microprocessors and distributed operating systems.
Gail L. Rosen, PhD (Georgia Institute of Technology). Assistant Professor. Signal processing, signal processing for biological analysis and modeling, bio-inspired designs, source localization and tracking.
Kevin J. Scoles, PhD (Dartmouth College) Associate Dean, College of Engineering, Office of Student Services. Associate Professor. Microelectronics; electric vehicles; solar energy; biomedical electronics.
Harish Sethu, PhD (Lehigh University). Associate Professor. Protocols, architectures and algorithms in computer networks; computer security; mobile ad hoc networks; large-scale complex adaptive networks and systems.
P. Mohana Shankar, PhD (Indian Institute of Technology) Allen Rothwarf Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Professor. Wireless communications; biomedical ultrasonics; fiberoptic bio-sensors.
Baris Taskin, PhD (University of Pittsburgh). Associate Professor. Electronic design automation (EDA) of integrated circuits, high-performance VLSI circuits and systems, sequential circuit timing and synchronization, system-on-chip (SOC) design, operational research, VLSI computer-aided design.
Lazar Trachtenberg, DSc (Israel Institute of Technology). Professor. Fault tolerance; multi-level logic synthesis; signal processing; suboptimal filtering.
Oleh Tretiak, ScD (MIT) Robert C. Disque Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Professor. Image processing; tomography; image registration; pattern recognition.
John MacLaren Walsh, PhD (Cornell University). Assistant Professor. Performance and convergence of belief/expectation propagation and turbo decoding/equalization/synchronization, permeation models for ion channels, composite adaptive systems theory.
Steven Weber, PhD (University of Texas-Austin) Assistant Department Head for Graduate Affairs, Electrical and Computer Engineering. Associate Professor. Mathematical modeling of computer and communication networks, specifically streaming multimedia and ad hoc networks.
Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira, PhD (Georgia Institute of Technology). Associate Professor. Next generation Internet; quality of service in computer communication networks; wireless networks.

Interdepartmental Faculty

Dov Jaron, PhD (University of Pennsylvania) Calhoun Distinguished Professor of Engineering in Medicine. Professor. Mathematical, computer and electromechanical simulations of the cardiovascular system.
Jeremy R. Johnson, PhD (Ohio State University) Department Head, Computer Science. Professor. Computer algebra; parallel computations; algebraic algorithms; scientific computing.
John Lacontora, PhD (New Jersey Institute of Technology). Associate Teaching Professor. Service engineering; industrial engineering.
Ryszard Lec, PhD (University of Warsaw Engineering College). Professor. Biomedical applications of visoelastic, acoustoptic and ultrasonic properties of liquid and solid media.
Spiros Mancoridis, PhD (University of Toronto) Director of Software Engineering Programs, Computer Science. Professor. Software engineering; software security; code analysis; evolutionary computation.
Karen Moxon, PhD (University of Colorado). Associate Professor. Cortico-thalamic interactions; neurobiological perspectives on design of humanoid robots.
Paul Y. Oh, PhD (Columbia University) Associate Department Head for External Affairs, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics. Associate Professor. Smart sensors servomechanisms; machine vision and embedded microcomputers for robotics and mechatronics.
Banu Onaral, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania) H.H. Sun Professor / Director, School of Biomedical Engineering Science and Health Systems. Professor. Biomedical signal processing; complexity and scaling in biomedical signals and systems.
Kambiz Pourrezaei, PhD (Rensselaer Polytechnic University). Professor. Thin film technology; nanotechnology; near infrared imaging; power electronics.
William C. Regli, PhD (University of Maryland-College Park) Computer Science Department. Professor. Artificial intelligence; computer graphics; engineering design and Internet computing.
Arye Rosen, PhD (Drexel University) Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering. Microwave components and subsystems; utilization of RF/microwaves and lasers in therapeutic medicine.
Jonathan E. Spanier, PhD (Columbia University). Associate Professor. Electronic, ferroic and plasmonic nanostructures and thin-film materials and interfaces; scanning probe microscopy; laser spectroscopy, including Raman scattering.
Aydin Tozeren, PhD (Columbia University) Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Integrated Bioinformatics, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems. Professor. Breast cell adhesion and communication, signal transduction networks in cancer and epithelial cells; integrated bioinformatics, molecular profiling, 3D-tumors, bioimaging.
Aspasia Zerva, PhD (University of Illinois). Professor. Earthquake engineering; mechanics; seismicity; probabilistic analysis.

Emeritus Faculty

Richard L. Coren, PhD (Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn). Professor Emeritus. Electromagnetic fields, antennas, shielding, RFI, cybernetics of evolving systems.
Robert Fischl, PhD (University of Michigan) John Jarem Professor Emeritus / Director, Center for Electric Power Engineering. Professor Emeritus. Power: systems, networks, controls, computer-aided design, power systems, solar energy.
Vernon L. Newhouse, PhD (University of Leeds) Disque Professor Emeritus. Professor Emeritus. Biomedical and electrophysics: ultrasonic flow measurement, imaging and texture analysis in medicine, ultrasonic nondestructive testing and robot sensing, clinical engineering.
Hun H. Sun, PhD (Cornell University) Ernest O. Lange Professor Emeritus. Professor Emeritus. Systems and signals in biomedical control systems.
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