Graduate program: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Two post-graduate degree programs are offered by the Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology: the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE)
degree, that requires a thesis and a publication, and the Master of
Electrical and Computer Engineering (MECE) degree, that does not
require a thesis or a publication, but instead requires 12 credit
hours of additional course work. Both degree programs combine
mathematics, physics, engineering, and computer science to meet the
demands of the highly volatile field of electrical and computer
engineering. An MECE student's plan of study is arranged on an
individual basis through a joint agreement between the student and
their academic advisor, who must be a member of the RHIT ECE
faculty.
Similarly, an MSEE degree student's plan of study is arranged by
agreement between the student, the student's advisory committee
chairperson, and the student's advisory committee. The MSEE
student's advisory committee must consist of at least (1) an RHIT
ECE faculty member serving as the major advisor who guides the
student's thesis research, (2) a second RHIT ECE faculty member,
and (3) an RHIT faculty member from outside of the ECE department.
Both degree programs seek to build upon the basic foundations
established by the student's undergraduate course of study. The
student's plan of study may reflect a desire to concentrate on a
specialized interest or a desire for a better understanding of the
broad underlying theories of the entire profession.
Special areas of interest within the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department include Communications, Computer
Architecture and Microcomputers, Control Systems, Electromagnetics,
Electronics, Power Systems, and Signal and Image Processing.
Department of
Electrical & Computer Engineering Website
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering requirements
- 48 credit hours, 36 credit hours of course work as approved by
student's advisory committee.
- At least 24 credit hours must be upper level ECE courses
(ECE4xx or ECE5xx)
- At least 24 credit hours must be at the 5xx level, thus, no
more than 12 credit hours of 400-level classes can count toward the
MSEE degree.
- 12 credit hours of thesis work (the Institute's non-thesis
option is not permitted for the MSEE degree).
- Successful defense of thesis.
- Acceptance of a technical article for publication and/or for
conference presentation with the major professor included as a
named author.
Master of Electrical and Computer Engineering degree
requirements
- 48 credit hours of course work as approved by student's
academic advisor.
- At least 32 credit hours must be upper level ECE courses
(ECE4xx or ECE5xx).
- At least 36 credit hours must be graduate level courses (5xx
from any department, or 4xx-level Mathematics which have been
approved by the student's advisory committee.) Thus no more than 12
credit hours may be 4xx level, excluding the specifically approved
Mathematics courses referred to above.
ECE Graduate Course Offerings
Communications
ECE 410 Communication Networks
ECE 414 Wireless Systems
ECE 415 Wireless Electronics
ECE 510 Error Correcting Codes
ECE 511 Data Communications
Computer Architecture and Microcomputers
ECE 430 Microcontroller-Based Systems
ECE 442 High-Speed Digital Design
ECE 530 Advanced Microcomputers
ECE 532 Advanced Computer Architecture
ECE 533 Programmable Logic System Design
ECE 581 Digital Signal Processing Projects
Control Systems
ECE 420 Nonlinear Control Systems
ECE 520 Control Systems I
ECE 521 Control Systems II
Electromagnetics
ECE 442 High-Speed Digital Design
ECE 540 Antenna Engineering
ECE 541 Microwave/Millimeter Wave Engineering
ECE 542 Advanced Electromagnetics
ECE 543 Mathematical Methods of Electromagnetics
Electronics
ECE 451 Nonlinear Electronics
ECE 452 Power Electronics
ECE 454 System Level Analog Electronics
ECE 516 Introduction to MEMS
ECE 519 Advanced MEMS
ECE 551 VLSI Design and Testing I
ECE 552 VLSI Design and Testing II
ECE 553 VLSI Design and Testing III
ECE 554 Instrumentation
Power Systems
ECE 452 Power Electronics
ECE 470 Power Systems I
ECE 471 Industrial Power Systems
ECE 472 Power Systems II
ECE 571 Control of Power Systems
Signal and Image Processing
ECE 480 Introduction to Image Processing
ECE 481 Electronic Music Synthesis
ECE 580 Digital Signal Processing
ECE 581 Digital Signal Processing Projects
ECE 582 Advanced Image Processing
| Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty:
Carlotta Berry, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University; Bruce A. Black,
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley; Edward R. Doering, Ph.D.,
Iowa State University; William J. Eccles, Ph.D., Purdue University;
Clifford H. Grigg, Ph.D., University of Manchester Institute of
Science and Technology; Marc E. Herniter, Ph.D., University
of Michigan; Keith E. Hoover, Ph.D., University of Illinois; Tina
A. Hudson, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology; Daniel J.
Moore, Ph.D., North Carolina State University; Xiaoyan Mu, Ph.D.,
Wayne State University; Wayne Padgett, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of
Technology; Mihaela E. Radu, Ph.D., The Polytechnic Institute of
Cluj, Romania; Niusha Rostamkolai, Ph.D., Virginia Tech.; Mario F.
Simoni, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology; Jianjian Song,
Ph.D., University of Minnesota; Robert D. Throne, Ph.D., University
of Michigan; David R. Voltmer, Ph.D., The Ohio State University;
Edward D. Wheeler, Ph.D., University of Missouri-Rolla; Mark A
Yoder, Ph.D., Purdue University; Deborah J. Walter, Ph.D., The
Pennsylvania State University |