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.

Analog, RF, and Mixed-Signal Design Laboratory

The RF and Microwave laboratory will support teaching, research and development of RF and microwave systems, and antenna designs. Researchers in this laboratory will design, fabricate, and test new RF / microwave / millimeter-wave circuits both in the board-level and chip-level. They will also design new antennas for different applications. All of these activities are supported by good facilities for simulations, prototyping, and measurement of RF / microwave components and systems.

Autonomous Systems Laboratory

Research in this laboratory focuses on information assurance, decision making, and video communications aspects in autonomous systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). This laboratory consists of infrastructure and simulation tools necessary to develop protocols for autonomous systems and analyze their performance. The laboratory also includes several indoor and outdoor robots to develop and test decentralized decision making and task scheduling algorithms. The infrastructure also includes a wireless video sensor network platform suitable for simulating applications such as video surveillance.

Communications and Signal Processing Laboratory

The Communication and Signal Processing Laboratory (CSPL) focuses on design and development of advanced communication techniques to provide efficient and robust information transmission over wired and wireless networks. Working in concert with academia and industry partners, CSPL is dedicated to research on coding, information theory, encryption, wireless networking, and software defined radio.

Computer Aided Design (CAD) Laboratory

The CAD laboratory will support teaching and high-quality research activities related to Analog, Digital, Mixed signal, VLSI/SoC (System-on-a-chip) design, Test and Test verification. The laboratory will support teaching and research activities by providing state-of-the-art software tools such as Cadence, Xilinx, LabVIEW, MATLAB, MultiSim, Advanced Design Systems, Mentor Graphics etc.

Speech, Music, and Digital Signal Processing Laboratory

Different acoustic aspects are studied experimentally in this laboratory. They include speech (production, perception, transmission, analysis and synthesis, recognition, speaker identification), ultrasound, hearing prosthetics, music (analysis, synthesis and transcription) and management of acoustic signals with applications of digital signal processing methods and devices.

Vision, Robotics, and Control Systems Laboratory

The main goal of this laboratory is to support research in the areas of pattern recognition, image processing, computer vision, computational intelligence, robotics, and allied areas. This laboratory consists of infrastructure and simulation tools for computer vision and pattern recognition applications and control systems design.

Wireless Systems and Sensor Networks Laboratory

The Wireless Systems and Sensor Networks Research Laboratory focuses on system-level issues that are critical for the design of high-performance wireless networks and intelligent sensor networks. Current research topics include energy efficient networking protocols for distributed sensor networks, experimental and theoretical study of wireless system performance, statistical and real-time signal processing, measurement and modeling of wireless channels, optimum network deployment and connectivity, and development of sensor networks for environmental monitoring applications.

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 Integrated Circuit 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

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.

Gayatri Mehta, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,2009
Research Areas: Low Power VLSI Design,Reconfigurable Computing,System on a chip(SoC) Design , Embedded Computing,Computer Architecture

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

Yan Wan, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Washington State University at Pullman,2008
Research Areas: Large-scale Dynamical Networks with Applications,Stochastic Network Modeling and Analysis,Decentralized Control,Air Traffic Flow Management,Sensor Networking,Systems Biology .

Hualiang Zhang, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST),2007
Research Areas: RF / microwave Circuits , Antenna Designs,Metamaterials,RF MEMS Passive Structures .

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