PhD Qualifying Examination in Electrical Engineering
The passing of the Ph.D. Qualifying Examination in Electrical Engineering is required of all EE students in the Ph.D. Program in Engineering and Applied Sciences. The qualifying examination in Electrical Engineering provides the student with a reasonably wide choice of areas in which to be tested while ensuring breadth necessary to communicate with people in other areas. The exam will consist of five 1-hour exams based on five courses, to be selected from the following five areas.
Optics:
Core Course - ENEE 4562 Engineering Optics
Other Courses:
ENEE 6563 Fourier Optics
ENEE 6564 Polarization Optics
ENEE 6565 Introduction to Lasers
ENEE 6566 Optical Communications
ENEE 6567 Semiconductor Optoelectronics
ENEE 6588 Optical Computing
Computing:
Core Course: ENEE 4585 HDL Chip Design (currently offered as ENEE 4096)
Other Courses:
ENEE 4545 Introduction to VLSI Design
ENEE 4584 Embedded Microcomputer Systems
ENEE 6581 Introduction to Digital Image Processing
ENEE 6582 Computer Vision
ENEE 6588 Optical Computing
Power:
Core Course - ENEE 6525 Power System Operation
Other Courses:
ENEE 4522 Power System Planning & Design
ENEE 4526 Protective Relaying of Power Systems
ENEE 4543 Power Electronics
ENEE 6522 Computer Aided Analysis of Large Power Systems
ENEE 6523 Electric Machines and Drives
ENEE 6570 Optimization Techniques in Engineering
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Signals:
Core Course - ENEE 4535 Introduction to Digital Signal Processing
Other Courses:
ENEE 4554 Analog and Digital Filter Design
ENEE 6533 Advanced Random Variables and Stochastic Processes
ENEE 6535 Adaptive Filtering
ENEE 6536 Advanced DSP with Speech Applications
ENEE 6538 Signal Detection
ENEE 6581 Introduction to Digital Image Processing
ENEE 6583 Neural Networks
Systems:
Core Course - ENEE 6530 Linear Systems
Other Courses:
ENEE 4533 Digital Control System Design
ENEE 4572 Advanced Communication System Design
ENEE 6531 Advanced Control Theory
ENEE 6532 Adaptive Control
ENEE 6533 Advanced Random Variables and Stochastic Processes
ENEE 6537 Estimation and Kalman Filtering |
The student must identify a major area of research and choose courses to meet the following requirements:
- Five courses from at least two areas.
- At most three courses from a single area.
- At least three courses must be at the 6000 level.
- At least two of the five courses must be in the major area and one of these must be the core course of the area.
The student must register for the exam by completing and submitting the Qualifying Examination Request Form to the Graduate Coordinator at least one month before the exam is given and must specify the five courses and the major area. The written part of the exam will be given in mid April annually in a single day (three hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon). Students are expected to take the exam in the first year of enrollment in the Ph.D. Program. The oral part will normally be given within two weeks after the student passes the written part. It consists of five 20-minute sessions (one 20 minute session per course) with all professors who administer the written parts present for all five sessions.
The Graduate Coordinator will establish a committee in charge of the qualifying examination each year. The qualifying examination questions for a course will normally be created and graded by the instructor who is teaching the course currently or who has taught the course most recently. The questions based on courses offered in the same semester as the exam should be based on material already covered before the exam. The questions will normally be graded within two working days. The student passes the qualifying examination only when he or she passes both the written and oral parts. The oral part will be given only after the student has passed the written part. Students who fail one section of the written or oral exam must be tested again on that section. However, the student is allowed to take the qualifying examination no more than twice.
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