Graduate Information

Opportunities for Graduate Studies

You are invited to take advantage of the opportunities soon to be offered by the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of North Texas. Beginning in Fall 2007, we will offer course work leading to the Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. Courses and research areas available to you include radar systems, wireless communications and networks, speech driven facial animation, sensor networks, computer vision, data fusion, computational intelligence, statistical signal processing, computer arithmetic, coding theory and VLSI design. The department will offer thesis and non-thesis options in these areas. Students will be able to engage in state-of-the-art collaborative research with faculty from EE and other departments. We will offer graduate classes in late afternoons to enable working engineers to pursue graduate study.

Laboratories

UNT's Electrical Engineering (EE) department has excellent state-of-the-art instructional and research laboratories and software to provide practical and advanced, hands-on experiences for students. Some laboratories and instrumentation from other departments are also available to our students for interdisciplinary work.

Digital and Mixed Signal Conditioning Laboratory

This laboratory is equipped with specialized design tools and instrumentation, including digital waveform generators, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers and new software-based test and analysis systems for digital and mixed signal conditioning experiments.

RF and Electromagnetic Scattering Laboratory

This laboratory has high RF bandwidth equipment, transmitter/receiver pairs for experiments over a wide range of frequencies, test equipment for high-frequency pulsed signals, RF sensing and identification systems, microwave scattering near-field measurement equipment and advanced scattering simulation software.

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Laboratory

This comprehensive laboratory provides infrastructure for computer-aided design related electrical engineering courses, including several advanced workstations with the latest CAD software, enabling design, test and simulation of a wide range of electronic chip designs.

Intelligent Signal Processing Research Laboratory

This research laboratory is dedicated to design and development of advanced signal processing algorithms and electronic systems for applications in industry, defense, and space sectors. The research areas include signal detection and estimation, information fusion from various sensor sources, infrared and microwave imaging, robust signal processing, pattern recognition, and target identification and tracking.

Wireless Systems and Sensor Networks Research Laboratory

This laboratory is dedicated to system level assurance and integration issues that are critical for the design of high-performance wireless networks and intelligent sensor networks. Current research topics include measurement and modeling of wireless channels, experimental and theoretical study of system performance, integrated communications and positioning, real-time signal processing, coding theory and optimum network deployment and connectivity.

Admission Requirements

All applicants must satisfy all general admission requirements of the Toulouse School of Graduate Studies as well as the admission requirements of the Electrical Engineering Department as follows:

• A minimum of a 3.0 GPA for undergraduate Electrical Engineering course work.
• Acceptable scores on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE).
• Acceptable scores on TOEFL for applicants whose native language is not English.
• 3 letters of Recommendation.
• Appropriate coursework in mathematics.

An overall evaluation of credentials is used as a basis for admission into the program. Leveling courses will be required for applicants with degrees other than electrical engineering. The admission requirements are evaluated holistically on an individual basis given the academic and possible industrial background of the student.

Leveling Courses

• EENG 2620 Signals and Systems
• EENG 2710 Digital Logic Design
• EENG 3520 Electronics II
• EENG 3710 Computer Organization
• EENG 3810 Communication Systems
• Mathematics Courses equivalent to following courses offered at UNT
• MATH 1710
• MATH 1720
• MATH 1780
• MATH 2730
• MATH 3310
• Physics including mechanics, electricity and magnetism

All entering students must demonstrate knowledge of the material covered in these courses. An entering student may demonstrate the knowledge by:

• Completing the courses at UNT
• Completing similar courses at another recognized institution

A student may be required to pass a placement examination to demonstrate knowledge.

Admission to Candidacy

After satisfaction of any requirements determined at admission and upon completion of all the leveling courses, the student is required to submit a formal degree plan to his or her graduate advisor and also to the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies. Failure to fulfill this requirement may prevent the student from enrolling the following term/semester. Admission to candidacy is granted by the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies after the degree plan has been approved.

Financial Assistance

Students with outstanding academic records have an excellent chance to earn scholarships throughout their studies. The department also provides a limited number of teaching assistantships and research assistantships. Only master's students who select the thesis option are eligible for teaching or research assistantships.

Completed assistantship and admission applications must be received by March 1 for the fall semester and by October 1 for the spring semester.

Degree Requirements

Option A:

Thesis option: 24 semester hours of organized coursework excluding undergraduate prerequisites,leveling courses and 6 semester hours of EENG 5950 Master Thesis.

Option B:

Non-Thesis option: 30 semester hours of organized course work and 3 semester hours of EENG 5890 Study of Topics in Electrical Engineering.

Course Selection:

A formal degree plan should be approved by the departmental faculty and must include :

• At least 12 semester hours of graduate Electrical Engineering courses
• No more than 6 semester hours of special problems or directed study courses

Electrical Engineering Graduate Courses:

• EENG 5310: Control System Design
• EENG 5520: Digital Integrated Circuit Design
• EENG 5530: Analog Design
• EENG 5610: Digital Signal Processing
• EENG 5620: Statistical Signal Processing
• EENG 5630: Adaptive Signal Processing
• EENG 5640: Computer Vision and Image Analysis
• EENG 5810: Digital Communications
• EENG 5820: Wireless Communications
• EENG 5830: Coding Theory
• EENG 5890: Directed Study
• EENG 5900: Special Problems
• EENG 5950: Master Thesis

Graduate Faculty and Areas of Research

Hai Deng, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 2000
Research Areas: Signal Processing, Radar Systems, Sensor Networking, Waveform Design, VLSI Design, Computational Electromagnetics, and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).

Shengli Fu, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Delaware, 2005
Research Areas: Coding and Information Theory, Wireless Communications, Pattern Recognition, Speech Driven Facial Animation.

Oscar N. Garcia, Professor and Founding Dean, Ph.D. University of Maryland, 1969
Research Areas: Speech Driven Facial Animation, Speech Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Intensive Reasoning, Cognition and Complex Systems.

Parthasarathy Guturu, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 1984
Research Areas: Wireless Sensor Networks, Computer Vision, Data Fusion and Computational Intelligence.

Xinrong Li, Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2003
Research Areas: Statistical Signal Processing Theory and Applications, Algorithms Design and Real-time Implementation, Wireless Communications and Networks, Wireless Channel Measurement and Modeling.

Murali Varanasi, Professor and Chair, Ph.D. University of Maryland, 1973
Research Areas: Computer Arithmetic, Coding Theory, and VLSI Design.

Contact Information

For More Information on Admission to UNT

Web: www.unt.edu
Email: gradsch@unt.edu
Phone: (940) 565-2383 or toll free (888) UNT-GRAD
Fax: (940) 565-2141

Toulouse School of Graduate Studies
University of North Texas
P.O. Box 305459
Denton TX, 76203-5459

For More Information about this Program

Web: www.ee.unt.edu
Email: EEchair{a.t}egw.unt.edu
Phone: (940) 891-6872
Fax: (940) 891-6881

Department of Electrical Engineering
University of North Texas
P.O. Box 310470
Denton TX, 76203-0470