Approved Depth Courses for
Ph.D. Qualifying Depth Exam
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Rules:
- Any course that is listed under the student's MAJOR area cannot be used to fulfill the breadth requirement.
Example: If a student has Communications as their major area, then EE 508 cannot be used for a breadth requirement.
- Students cannot use the same course for two different minor breadth requirements. Example: EE 505 - If a student
has Controls & Robotics as their major area, then EE 505 cannot be used to satisfy the breadth requirement for both
the Signal & Image Processing area and the Communications area; EE 505 can be only used for one area. Students should
double-check the listings and cross-listings of courses.
- When a student chooses a course from one subgroup, none of the other courses in that subgroup may be used to satisfy
any portion of the breadth requirement. Example: EE 565 - If a student has chosen Electronic Circuits, Devices and
Transducers as their major area, and uses EE 565 to satisfy the breadth requirement for Communications Subgroup B,
then the student cannot use any other course in that subgroup (EE 566, EE 595, or EE 565) to satisfy any other breadth
requirement.
- This list of courses is mandatory for all EE Ph.D. students.
Controls and Robotics
EE 510 Mathematical Foundations of System Theory (4)
EE 543 Models of Robot Manipulation (3)
EE 544 Advanced Robot Manipulation (4)
EE 545 Intelligent Control of Autonomous Robots (4)
EE 547 Linear Systems Theory (previously EE 584 pre-Autumn 2005) (4)
EE/AA 548 Linear Multivariable Control (3)
EE/AA 549 Estimation and System Identification (3)
EE/AA 550 Nonlinear Optimal Control (3)
EE 552 Power Systems Dynamics and Control (4)
EE/AA/ME 581 Digital Control (3)
EE/AA/ME 582 Introduction to Discrete Event Systems (3)
EE/ME 583 Nonlinear Control Systems (3)
EE 584
AA 518 Automatic Control of Flight Vehicles I (3)
VLSI & Embedded Systems
Students are required to take either EE 526 or EE 536.
EE 477 VLSI II (5)
EE 525 VLSI II (cross-listed with EE 477) (5)
EE 526 VLSI III (4)
EE 536 Design of Analog Integrated Circuits and Systems (4)
EE 537 Computation Methods for Circuit Analysis and Simulation (3)
EE 538 Topics in Electronic Circuit Design (2-5) (When taught by VLSI Faculty)
EE 538B CMOS RF Circuit Design (3-5)[may get regular course number in future]
EE 540 VLSI Testing (3)
EE 541 Automatic Layout of Integrated Circuits (4)
Devices and MEMS
EE 502 Introduction to MEMS (4)
EE 503 Modeling of MEMS (4)
EE 527 Solid State Laboratory Techniques (4)
EE 528 Physics and Modeling of VLSI Fabrication (4) [previously offered as
EE-539B and EE -539A and Semiconductor Band Theory]
EE 529 Semiconductor Optics and Optical Devices (4)
EE 531 Semiconductor Devices & Device Simulation (4)
EE 532 Device Modeling for Circuit Simulation (4)
EE 533 Photodetectors and Photodetection (4)
EE 536 Design of Analog Integrated Circuits and Systems (4)
EE 539 Advanced Topics on Integrated Optics and Optical MEMS
The following courses are also acceptable only for students entering the program previous to Autumn 2002:
EE 509 Engineering Applications of Linear Graphs (3)
EE 511 Principles of Network Synthesis (3)
EE 535 Design of Digital Integrated Circuits and Systems (4)
EE 537 Computational Methods for Circuit Analysis and Simulation (3)
EE 538 Topics in Electronic Circuit Design (3-5)
EE 539B Physics and Modeling of VLSI Fabrication (4)
EE 540 VLSI Testing (3)
BioE 573 Biosensors and Biomedical Sensing (3)
Electromagnetics
EE 571 High Frequency Circuits and Antennas: Computation of Fields and Waves (4)
EE 572 Electromagnetic Theory and Applications I (4)
EE 573 Electromagnetic Computations and Applications I (4)
EE 574 Electromagnetic Computations and Applications II (4)
EE 575 Waves in Random Media (4)
EE 579 Advanced Topics in Electromagnetics, Optics, and Acoustics (3-5 only)
Energy Systems
EE 534 Power Electronics (4)
EE 551 Power System Protection (4)
EE 552 Power Systems Dynamics and Control (4)
EE 553 Power System Economics (4)
EE 554 Large Electric Energy Systems Analysis (4)
EE 555 Fundamentals of Intelligent Systems (4)
EE 559 Special Topics in Electrical Energy Systems (3-5 only)
Signal & Image Processing
EE 501 Radar Remote Sensing (3)
EE 505 Probability and Random Processes (4)
EE 508 Stochastic Processes (3)
EE 514 Information Theory (4)
EE 516 Computer Speech Processing (4)
EE 517 Statistical Language Processing (4)
EE 518 Digital Signal Processing (4)
EE 519 Stochastic Analysis of Data from Physical Systems (4)
EE 521 Multidimensional Signal Processing (3)
EE 524 Wavelets: Data Analysis, Algorithms and Theory (3)[@]
EE 549 Estimation and System Identification (3)
EE 562 Artificial Intelligence for Engineers (3)
EE 568 Image Processing Computer Systems (4)
EE 576 Computer Vision (3)
EE 577 Special Topics in Computer Vision (3)
EE 586 Digital Video Coding Systems (4) [*]
EE 587 Multimedia Compression and Networking (4)
EE 596 Advanced Topics in Signal and Image Processing (3-5 only)
[*] previous offerings of EE586 as EE595 can be used.
[@] previous offerings of EE524 as STAT530 can be used.
EE 520 Spectral Analysis of Time Series (4) taken up to Summer 2002 may be counted.
Communications/Networking
EE 505 Probability and Random Processes (4)
EE 506 Communication Theory I (3)
EE 507 Communication Theory II (3)
EE 508 Stochastic Processes (3)
EE 565 Computer-Communication Networks I (4)
EE 566 Computer-Communication Networks II (3)
EE 595 Advanced Topics in Communication Theory (3-5 only)