Program Overview

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Electrical Engineering Program Overview

The Electrical Engineering program at NC State University offers a comprehensive education in the field, with a focus on preparing students for careers in industry, research, and academia. The program is designed to provide students with a strong foundation in the principles of electrical engineering, as well as the opportunity to specialize in a particular area of interest.

Program Requirements

The Master of Science in Electrical Engineering may be earned with a thesis option or non-thesis option. Either option may be used as preparation for further graduate study or employment in industrial research, development, or design.

• Thirty-one (31) credit hours are required for the Master's degree.
• A thesis is optional.
• Students must have at least 21 hours of ECE courses that cover at least three specialty areas.
• Students must have at least three credit hours of advanced-level (700-level) ECE courses.
• Students electing the non-thesis option must meet core course requirements and have ECE courses that cover at least three specialty areas.

Doctoral Degree Requirements

Approximately 54 credit hours are required beyond the M.S. degree or 72 credit hours beyond the B.S. degree.

• For those with an NC State MS degree in the department, no additional courses are required.
• For those with an NC State MS degree in another department, 6 credit hours are required in the department.
• For those with a non-NC State MS degree, 12 credit hours of coursework are required.
• For those with only a Bachelor's degree, 30 credit hours of coursework are required.
• The remaining credit hours are research.

Student Financial Support

The department offers financial support to qualified students in the form of teaching assistantships, research assistantships, and fellowships. These sources of support generally include coverage of tuition and fees.

Admissions Requirements

Admission to the M.S. program requires a B.S. in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or computer science, and an overall undergraduate GPA of at least 3.0.

• For non-native English speakers, the minimum acceptable TOEFL score for admission to the M.S. program is 90 (minimum 18 in each area, with a minimum of 19 on Speaking).
• Admission is further limited by available room in the elected program of study.
• Meeting the above minimum requirements alone does not guarantee admission.

Faculty

The Electrical Engineering department has a diverse and experienced faculty, with expertise in a wide range of areas, including:

• Full Professors:
  • Harald Ade
  • David E Aspnes
  • B. Jayant Baliga
  • Mesut E. Baran
  • Salah M. A. Bedair
  • Subhashish Bhattacharya
  • Donald L. Bitzer
  • Alper Yusuf Bozkurt
  • Gregory T Byrd
  • Rada Yuryevna Chirkova
  • Mo-Yuen Chow
  • Huaiyu Dai
  • William Rhett Davis
  • Alexandra Duel-Hallen
  • Michael James Escuti
  • Do Young Eun
  • Brian Allan Floyd
  • Paul D. Franzon
  • Edward F. Gehringer
  • John J. Grainger
  • Edward Grant
  • Robert Wendell Heath
  • Brian L Hughes
  • Iqbal Husain
  • Ki Wook Kim
  • Frederick Anthony Kish Jr.
  • Robert Michael Kolbas
  • Hamid Krim
  • Ning Lu
  • Srdjan Miodrag Lukic
  • Leda Lunardi
  • Thomas Kenan Miller III
  • Veena Misra
  • Rainer Frank Mueller
  • John F. Muth
  • H. Troy Nagle Jr.
  • Jagdish Narayan
  • Arne Nilsson
  • Omer Oralkan
  • Mehmet Cevdet Ozturk
  • Harilaos George Perros
  • Douglas Stephen Reeves
  • Eric Rotenberg
  • Georgios Rouskas
  • Xipeng Shen
  • Mihail Lorin Sichitiu
  • Zlatko Sitar
  • Matthias F. M. Stallmann
  • Daniel D. Stancil
  • Michael B. Steer
  • J. K. Townsend
  • James Tuck
  • Daryoosh Vashaee
  • John Victor Veliadis
  • Ioannis Viniotis
  • Mladen Alan Vouk
  • Wenye Wang
  • Jonathan Wierer
  • Fen Wu
  • Huiyang Zhou
• Associate Professors:
  • Jacob James Adams
  • Dror Zeev Baron
  • Michela Becchi
  • Aranya Chakrabortty
  • Stanley Cheung
  • Alexander G. Dean
  • Sevgi Gurbuz
  • Ali Gurbuz
  • Ismail Guvenc
  • Kook Han
  • Khaled Abdel Hamid Harfoush
  • Michael W. Kudenov
  • David S. Lalush
  • Edgar Lobaton
  • Zeljko Pantic
  • Nuria Gonzalez Prelcic
  • Anderson Rodrigo de Queiroz
  • David Ricketts
  • Nitin Sharma
  • Cranos M. Williams
• Assistant Professors:
  • Aydin Aysu
  • Amay Jairaj Bandodkar
  • Max Cohen
  • Michael Daniele
  • Demitry Farfurnik
  • Caterina M. Gallippi
  • Yaoyao Jia
  • Shih-Chun Lin
  • Yuan Liu
  • Jianqing Liu
  • Spyridon Pavlidis
  • Bradley Galloway Reaves
  • Muhammad Shahzad
  • Wenyuan Tang
  • Chau-Wai Wong
  • Tianfu Wu
  • Chenhan Xu

Courses

The Electrical Engineering department offers a wide range of courses, including:

• ECE 505: Neural Interface Engineering
• ECE 506: Architecture Of Parallel Computers
• ECE 510: Introduction to Signal Processing
• ECE 511: Analog Electronics
• ECE 512: Data Science from a Signal Processing Perspective
• ECE 514: Random Processes
• ECE 515: Digital Communications
• ECE 516: System Control Engineering
• ECE 517: Object-Oriented Design and Development
• ECE 518: Wearable Biosensors and Microsystems
• ECE 522: Medical Instrumentation
• ECE 523: Photonics and Optical Communications
• ECE 524: Radio System Design
• ECE 529: Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices
• ECE 530: Physical Electronics
• ECE 533: Power Electronics Design & Packaging
• ECE 534: Power Electronics
• ECE 535: Design of Electromechanical Systems
• ECE 536: Digital Control System Projects
• ECE 538: Integrated Circuits Technology and Fabrication
• ECE 540: Electromagnetic Fields
• ECE 541: Antennas and Arrays
• ECE 542: Neural Networks
• ECE 544: Design Of Electronic Packaging and Interconnects
• ECE 546: VLSI Systems Design
• ECE 547: Cloud Computing Technology
• ECE 548: Python in ECE
• ECE 549: RF Design for Wireless
• ECE 550: Power System Operation and Control
• ECE 551: Smart Electric Power Distribution Systems
• ECE 552: Renewable Electric Energy Systems
• ECE 553: Semiconductor Power Devices
• ECE 554: Electric Motor Drives
• ECE 555: Computer Control of Robots
• ECE 556: Mechatronics
• ECE 557: Principles Of MOS Transistors
• ECE 558: Digital Imaging Systems
• ECE 560: Embedded System Architectures
• ECE 561: Embedded System Design
• ECE 563: Microprocessor Architecture
• ECE 564: ASIC and FPGA Design with Verilog
• ECE 565: Operating Systems Design
• ECE 566: Compiler Optimization and Scheduling
• ECE 568: Conventional and Emerging Nanomanufacturing Techniques and Their Applications in Nanosystems
• ECE 569: Quantum Computing
• ECE 570: Computer Networks
• ECE 572: Optimizations and Algorithms
• ECE 573: Internet Protocols
• ECE 574: Computer and Network Security
• ECE 575: Introduction to Wireless Networking
• ECE 576: Networking Services: QoS, Signaling, Processes
• ECE 577: Switched Network Management
• ECE 578: LTE and 5G Communications
• ECE 579: Introduction to Computer Performance Modeling
• ECE 581: Electric Power System Protection
• ECE 583: Electric Power Engineering Practicum I
• ECE 584: Electric Power Engineering Practicum II
• ECE 585: The Business of the Electric Utility Industry
• ECE 586: Communication and SCADA Systems for Smart Grid
• ECE 587: Power System Transients Analysis
• ECE 588: Systems Biology Modeling of Plant Regulation
• ECE 589: Solid State Solar and Thermal Energy Harvesting
• ECE 591: Special Topics In Electrical Engineering
• ECE 592: Special Topics In Electrical Engineering
• ECE 600: ECE Graduate Orientation
• ECE 633: Individual Topics In Electrical Engineering
• ECE 634: Individual Studies In Electrical Engineering
• ECE 640: Semiconductor Manufacturing Practicum I
• ECE 641: Applications Engineering Using Wide Bandgap Semiconductors Practicum II
• ECE 650: Internship
• ECE 675: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ECE 685: Master's Supervised Teaching
• ECE 690: Master's Exam
• ECE 693: Master's Supervised Research
• ECE 695: Master's Thesis Research
• ECE 696: Summer Thesis Research
• ECE 699: Master's Thesis Preparation
• ECE 706: Advanced Parallel Computer Architecture
• ECE 710: Advanced Digital Signal Processing
• ECE 712: Integrated Circuit Design for Wireless Communications
• ECE 714: Advanced Integrated Circuit Design: Data Converters
• ECE 718: Computer-Aided Circuit Analysis
• ECE 719: Advanced Microwave Design
• ECE 720: Electronic System Level and Physical Design
• ECE 721: Advanced Microarchitecture
• ECE 722: Electronic Properties of Solid-State Materials
• ECE 723: Optical Properties Of Semiconductors
• ECE 724: Electronic Properties Of Solid-State Devices
• ECE 725: Quantum Engineering
• ECE 726: Advanced Feedback Control
• ECE 732: Dynamics and Control of Electric Machines
• ECE 733: Digital Electronics
• ECE 734: Power Management Integrated Circuits
• ECE 735: Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Power Devices
• ECE 736: Power System Stability and Control
• ECE 739: Integrated Circuits Technology and Fabrication Laboratory
• ECE 745: ASIC Verification
• ECE 748: Advanced Functional Verification with Universal Verification Methodology
• ECE 751: Detection and Estimation Theory
• ECE 752: Information Theory
• ECE 753: Computational Methods for Power Systems
• ECE 755: Advanced Robotics
• ECE 756: Advanced Mechatronics
• ECE 759: Pattern Recognition
• ECE 762: Advanced Digital Communications Systems
• ECE 763: Computer Vision
• ECE 765: Probabilistic Graphical Models for Signal Processing and Computer Vision
• ECE 766: Signal Processing for Communications & Networking
• ECE 773: Advanced Topics in Internet Protocols
• ECE 774: Advanced Network Security
• ECE 785: Topics in Advanced Computer Design
• ECE 786: Advanced Computer Architecture: Data Parallel Processors
• ECE 789: Cellular and Telecommunications Security
• ECE 791: Special Topics In Electrical Engineering
• ECE 792: Special Topics In Electrical Engineering
• ECE 801: Seminar in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ECE 804: Seminar in Comm/Sig PR
• ECE 833: Individual Topics In Electrical Engineering
• ECE 834: Individual Studies In Electrical Engineering
• ECE 875: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ECE 885: Doctoral Supervised Teaching
• ECE 890: Doctoral Preliminary Examination
• ECE 893: Doctoral Supervised Research
• ECE 895: Doctoral Dissertation Research
• ECE 896: Summer Dissertation Research
• ECE 899: Doctoral Dissertation Preparation

Degrees

The Electrical Engineering department offers the following degrees:

• 5G Technology (Certificate)
• ASIC Design & Verification (Certificate)
• Electrical Engineering (Certificate)
• Electrical Engineering (Minor)
• Electrical Engineering (MS)
• Electrical Engineering (MS): Internship Concentration
• Electrical Engineering (PhD)
• Nano-Systems Engineering (Certificate)
• Renewable Electric Energy Systems (Certificate)