Break new ground. Publish world-changing research. If your aim is a career in academia or in an industrial or government research and development laboratory, you’ll need to earn the highest degree an electrical engineer can get. Complete a research-based dissertation, grounded in 48 hours of coursework, in just four years beyond your B.S. degree.

Fields of Specialization

Thesis research can generally be conducted in any sub-discipline of electrical engineering coinciding with the research interests of our faculty, which include these topics:

  • Power systems
  • Power electronics
  • Simulation environments for power electronics and interdisciplinary systems
  • Microwave power amplifier and MOS devices based on wide bandgap semiconductors
  • Growth device processing, and characterization of wide bandgap (SiC and GanN) semiconductors
  • Nanoelectronics
  • Electromagnetic scattering
  • Wireless communication applications
  • Outdoor and indoor wave propagation
  • Millimeter-wave integrated circuits
  • Microwave and antenna design
  • Electronic packaging