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Electrical engineering is concerned with the basic forms
of energy that run the world and the exciting fields of electronics
and information technology. The field of electronics continues
to bring forth new breakthroughs in solid-state technology
(transistors, integrated circuits, LSI and VLSI chips, microprocessors,
lasers, optical fibers), which in turn fuel the unprecedented
revolution in telecommunications (worldwide picture, voice,
and data), computers (neural network, distributed, and intelligent),
instrumentation (biomedical, intelligent), and many other
areas.
The Department of Electrical Engineering at the University
of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM) offers graduate programs leading to the MS and the PhD. Students need to major in one
of the following areas:
- computer engineering — architecture, algorithms,
networking, and software;
- electro-physics — solid-state devices and sensors,
analog and digital circuit design, and electromagnetic fields
and microwaves; and
- systems — telecommunications, automatic controls,
and signal and image processing.
The department has 19 faculty members, four of which are
IEEE Fellows, three received NSF Presidential Young Investigator
Awards, four received NSF Career Awards, two received the
university's highest teaching excellence awards, and one received
the university's highest research excellence award.
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MS Degree Requirements
Only Plan A (thesis) is available. The plan requires 30 credits
(including nine credits of thesis research), a written thesis
and defense of the thesis.
PhD Degree Requirements
PhD students are required to specialize in a major track (computer
engineering, electro-physics, or systems) and show competence
in a minor track. The program requires the following:
- completion of MS course requirements,
- nine credits of 600-level course work in the major track,
- three credits of 600-level course work in a minor track,
- participation in a substantial teaching project and demonstration
of competence in teaching,
- qualifying exam,
- comprehensive exam,
- dissertation,
- final oral exam / defense of dissertation.
Courses
To view a listing of courses offered, visit www.catalog.hawaii.edu/courses/departments/ee.htm.
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