Electrical Engineering PhD

Electrical engineering is a diverse discipline encompassing some of the smallest man-made objects, transistors for computer chips, as well as communication systems that span the earth and reach out into intergalactic space. The invention of the transistor 50 years ago touched off a technological revolution that continues unabated today, including the development of lasers, fiber optics, microcomputers, satellite communications, control systems, and increasingly sophisticated signal processing algorithms. Areas of study include communications; computer networks engineering; photonics engineering, including optical communications, nonlinear optics, remote sensing and LIDAR for atmospheric and environmental studies; atmospheric solid state lasers; optical engineering; parallel processing; VLSI design; robotics and control, control system engineering; image and signal processing; nano/micro devices; and multidimensional filter design.