Bikila’s List for Edulix Community - Electrical Engineering
| Name | AppFee | Rank | Strength / Claim to Fame | Notes |
| Arizona State University | $45 | #49 | Communications, solid state electronics, power, control systems, electromagnetism and signal processing. | RA for PhD are available for three years and include a stipend of $18000 per year and all fees (valued at $9340). For more information: joseph.palais@asu.edu |
| Case Western Reserve U. | $25 | #40 | AI, Bio-Control, CAD, Neuro-Mechanical, semiconductors. | |
| Clemson University | $40 | ER | Communications/DSP, Computer Communications, Computer Systems Architecture, Controls/Robotics, Computational Electromagnetics, Image Processing and Artificial Intelligence, Instruction Level Parallelism, Parallel Architecture, Power Quality and Industrial Applications, Robotics and Mechatronics, Speech Processing, and Wireless Communications. | |
| Drexel University | $35 | ER | Telecommunications, information networking, computer architecture, computer networks, imaging and signal processing, microwave and light wave engineering, power systems engineering, controls, robotics, neural networks, ultrasonic, and biomedical engineering. | Contact Professor P. M. Shankar at shankar@ece.drexel.edu for RA info at PhD level. |
| George Mason University | $30 | ER | Mobile Communications Networks, High Speed Data Networks, Signal Processing, Optical Interconnects for Distributed Processing, Optics in Information Processing, Image Processing; Sensor Management and Scheduling; Cryptology; Computer Network Security; Computer Arithmetic. | Many of these projects provide opportunities for Research Assistantships. In addition the department has a number of TA/RA. |
| Illinois Inst. Of Technology | $30 | ER | Communications and Signal Processing, Computers and Digital Systems, Electronics and Electromagnetics, Power and Control. | questions concerning ECE scholarships please contact Diane Howell @ howell@iit.edu |
| Iowa State | $50 | #40 | Communications and Signal Processing, Computer Systems Architecture, Electric Power and Energy Systems, Information Systems Security and Networking, Microelectronics and Photonics, Nondestructive Evaluation and Electromagnetics, Software Systems, Systems and Controls, VLSI Design. | |
| Lehigh University | #40 | microelectronics, electromagnetism, information processing, circuits, VLSI design, computer systems and networks, systems software, software applications, and computer science theory, AI | TA&RA are available to students of outstanding promise. Companies hiring recent graduates include Allied Signal, Lockheed Martin, Anderson Consulting, Raytheon, Cigna, Merck, Military Electronics, Microsoft, Lucent, IBM, Bell Atlantic, National Semi Conductor, Intel, Motorola. | |
| Michigan State University | $40 | #43 | Signal Processing: statistical signal processing, speech recognition, biomedical signal processing, speech and image coding, neural network training algorithms. Computer Engineering: advanced digital electronic circuit design, embedded processors, advanced topics in computer architecture, performance evaluation of computer systems, the design, test and packaging of (ASICs). Control Area: adaptive control, "intelligent control". Electronics Devices and Circuits: IC fabrication, Micro sensors and field emitters, Device Modeling and Simulation, VLSI Circuit Design. Engineering Electro sciences, Power. | ECE_Mailbox@egr.msu.edu |
| NC State University | $55 | #28 | Advanced Diagnosis and Control, Electronic Materials Processing, Biomedical Instrumentation and Micro sensors, Advanced Computing and Communication, Embedded Systems, Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Computer Architecture, Electric Power, High Performance Digital Signal Processing, Medical Imaging, Power Semiconductor, Quantum Computing, Solid State Electronics. | NC State's College of Engineering is consistently ranked among the top 25 engineering schools in the United States and we are the largest department in the College. GRE scores in excess of 2000 required for EE. |
| NJIT | $50 | ER | Communications and Signal Processing, telecommunications, Microwave and Light wave Engineering, Optoelectronics and Solid-State Circuits Research , Multi-Disciplinary Optical Science and Engineering (OPSE) , Microelectronics | |
| OSU | $40 | #20 | Wireless Communications Systems,Controls, Electromagnetics, Electromechanical Systems, Electronic Materials and Devices , High Performance Computing, Mixed Signal Electronics Systems, Photonics & Optics, Power Systems, Robotics, Signal & Machine Perception. | Consistently ranked in the top 10% nationwide. EE Dept ranked among top 20. |
| Penn State | $40 | #15 | Communications, Control Systems, Electromagnetics, Electro-optics, Electronic Materials & Devices, Power Systems, Remote Sensing & Space Systems, Signal & Image Processing. | |
| RPI | $45 | #16 | Multimedia Systems, Image/Signal Processing and Networking, Intelligent Control, Robotics and Automation, Integrated Electronics and Electronics Manufacturing, Electromagnetics and Plasma Diagnostics | |
| Rutgers | $50 | #38 | Communication, Computer Engineering, Digital Signal Processing, Electronic Circuits, Solid State Electronics, Systems and Control. | |
| SUNY - Buffalo | $30 | ER | Communications and Signals: communications theory, Photonics computer communications networks and optical communications systems. solid-state electronics, computational Photonics and fiber optics; Digital Electronics and Controls: digital circuit design and instrumentation; real time control; systems theory, control theory; image processing, digital signal processing and efficient architectures and algorithms; | A number of graduate school fellowships are available from the State University of New York. These carried a stipend of up to $10,000 and also included tuition scholarships. Teaching and research assistantships are also available, with a minimum stipend of $9,000 plus exemption from tuition. Research lectureships are sometimes available and pay $20,000 per academic year. |
| Syracuse | $50 | Communications, system performance analysis, High performance systems, distributed processing Electromagnetics, Artificial intelligence, control, communications, Neuroscience, Optical communications, Optical data processing, Parallel computation, Signal Processing, Software Design, development, and critical analysis, VLSI Circuit Design, VLSI, CAD, optical devices and circuits. | Many in the Professional Masters programs are international students from India, the Republic of China, Peoples Republic of China, Malaysia, South East Asian, European, and African countries, and others. For more info: Inquire@uplink.syr.edu | |
| Texas A&M | $75 | #16 | Telecommunications and Signal Processing - Analog & Mixed Signal, Biomedical Imaging - Computer Engineering - Control Systems - E/M and Microwaves - Electric Power and Power Electronics - Solid State Electronics and Electro optics | The EE Department was one of two departments at Texas A&M University to receive $250,000 in funding from Nortel Networks to provide scholarships A&M students. For further information on the Graduate Program of Electrical Engineering, please contact G. M. Huang at huang@ee.tamu.edu |
| U Arizona | $45 | #44 | DSP, AI, Electromagnetics/Optics, Microelectronics. | Top 10% EE Dept in US. |
| U Colorado at Boulder | $30 | #30 | Telecommunications Systems, Bioengineering, Computer Engineering, Dynamics and Controls, Electromagnetics and Microwaves, Optics and Lasers, Power and Power Electronics, Propagation and Remote Sensing, Semiconductor Devices and Solid State Materials, Signal Processing and Systems Theory, VLSI Design Automation. | Apply for TA at ece-www.colorado.edu/grad/ta_app.html |
| U Delaware | #47 | Signal Processing & Communications: Communications Theory, Statistical & Nonlinear Signal Processing Wavelets & Filterbanks. Devices & Materials: Group IV Materials and Devices, Nitride Alloys and Devices, Optoelectronic Devices and Circuits. Optics & Electromagnetics: High-Density WDM Networks, Interconnect Complexity, Spectroscopic Imaging. Computer & Digital Systems: Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems, High-Performance Computing, User Interfaces. | Questions about the graduate program should be
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| U Florida | #20 | #35 | Communications, wireless communications, computer systems and networks, device electronics, DSP, electromagnetics, photonics, neuroengineering. | |
| U Pittsburgh | $50 | ER | Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Opto-Electronics, optical computing, Network Communications, Parallel Computing, machine fault analysis, speech recognition, time-varying system identification and modeling, biomedical signal analysis, neural networks and non-linear processing of temporal signals and images. | |
| U Washington | $49 | #31 | Wireless Networks and Communications, Speech-Based and Haptic Human-Computer Interfaces, Distributed and 'Smart' Sensor Design, Streaming and Broadcast Multimedia, Electromagnetics and Remote Sensing, Systems-on-a-chip Design and Testing, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Signal Processing and Compression, Mechatronics and Genome Automation, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), Nanotechnology. | RA available starting Fall 2000. Preference is given to students interested in pursuing a PhD in computational electromagnetics, however MS students are also encouraged. Research areas include applications of Computational Electromagnetics in signal integrity, high-speed circuits and devices, rough surfaces and random media, and radar cross section. Contact Dr. Vikram Jandhyala at jandhyala@ee.washington.edu Financial support for graduate students includes 35 TA/quarter and approximately 100 RA and Fellowships/year. |
| UC Irvine | $40 | #48 | Advanced Computer Architecture, Integrated Systems Solutions, Computer Vision, Distributed Real-time Computing, Distributed Object Computing, DREAM (Distributed Real-time Ever Available Micro computing), Fault Tolerant Multicomputer Systems, Integrated Photonics, Machine Intelligence and Neural and Soft Computing, Network Performance, Numerical Processors, Pattern Recognition and Image Modeling, Power Electronics, Vision based Traffic Monitoring, Visual/Interactive Data Engineering, VLSI Design Automation. | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering is ranked 48th, UCI was named 16th in the TOP 20 BEST PUBLIC NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES in the country by U.S. News and World Report, in their annual 2000 survey, as well as 49th among all colleges in the country, UCI is ranged in the nation's top 10 for information technology education by PC Week. |
| UC Santa Barbara | $40 | #25 | Communication Networks, Computer Architecture, Data Transmission and Networking, Computer Networks and Distributed Systems, Electromagnetics and Quasi-Optics, Design of Fault-Tolerant Evolvable Systems, Image Processing and Vision Research, Imaging Systems, Microwave Electronics, Picosecond Electronics, Processor Architecture, RF and High Speed Digital Circuit Design, Semiconductor Quantum Optics, Signal Compression, Ultrafast Optoelectronics | |
| UCSD | $40 | #15 | telecommunications, Asynchronous VLSI Research, Magnetic Recording, Computer Vision and Robotics, Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics, Embedded System Design Automation and Test, Fusion Energy Research, Gas Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy, High Speed Devices, Information and Coding, Nanoscale Characterization and Devices, OptoElectronic Computing, Visual Computing, VLSI-DSP, Signal Transmission And Recording. | UCSD is one of the nation's premier research universities, consistently ranking as one of the top ten institutions nationwide in the receipt of federal research funding. In a recent survey conducted by the National Academy of Sciences, the graduate programs in the UCSD School of Engineering were ranked ninth in the country, and at UCSD overall were ranked tenth. Included among the UCSD faculty are six Nobel laureates, six recipients of the National Medal of Science, 57 members of the National Academy of Sciences and twelve members of the National Academy of Engineering |
| University of Maryland | $70 | #17 | communications and signal processing: speech, image and video processing, computer vision, VLSI signal processing, satellite and hybrid networks, and wireless systems. Controls - adaptive and robust control, control technologies including, prototyping, smart sensors and actuators, smart machines. computer engineering: high performance systems, computer architectures, software engineering and real-time systems, embedded systems, VSLI systems and CAD tools, computer security, distributed operating systems. Electronic Sciences and Devices includes electrophysics and microelectronics. In the area of electrophysics: chaos, magnetics, superconductivity, accelerator systems, microwave sources, III-V optoelectronics, optoelectronic packaging, optical communications, optical sensors and wavelength-division multiplexing. In microelectronics: device and circuit modeling, semiconductor materials and devices, circuit design and testing. | In its last ranking of undergraduate programs, U.S. News & World Report placed the business and engineering schools among the nation's top 25 in their disciplines. In graduate rankings, the A. James Clark School of Engineering, the School of Public Affairs and the College of Education all ranked in the top 25. And for the first time, Business Week magazine placed the Robert H. Smith School of Business' M.B.A. among the nation's top 25. |
| U of Mass at Amherst | $40 | #46 | Architecture and Real-Time, Complex Systems Modeling and Control, Compound Semiconductor, Feedback Control Systems, Information Systems, Millimeter Wavelength Devices and Applications, Numerical Analysis of Semiconductor, Microwave Remote Sensing, Multimedia Networks, Reconfigurable Computing Group, Semiconductor Spectroscopy, VLSI, Wireless Systems, VLSI Signal Processing, Yield and Reliability of VLSI Circuits. | |
| University of Texas at Arlington | $25 | ER | Telecom: Modulation Methods for Wireless Systems , Wireless Propagation Modeling, Antennas for Wireless Systems, Dynamic Channel Allocation for Wireless Systems, Microwave Systems and Devices; Digital Signal and Image Processing, ElectroOptics, Controls and Manufacturing, Image Processing and Neural Networks, Digitial Image Processing, Human Performance, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, VLSI and Semiconductor Devices. | The College of Engineering ranks in the top 25% of Engineering schools in the U.S. with over 2,800 students enrolled in seven departments and instructed by 100 faculty members. The North Texas DFW Metroplex is the second largest high-tech industrial corridor in the nation, after San Jose, CA. There are over 266,000 employees located in 8,000 high-tech companies that focus on semiconductors, telecommunications, wireless technology, hardware distribution, air-defense systems, medical products and software development. |
| University of Texas at Austin | $75 | #10 | Telecommunications and Information Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electromagnetics and Acoustics, Energy Systems, Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Plasma and Quantum Electronics and Optics, Solid State Electronics, Digital Signal Processing. | Only a few of the most exceptional applicants are offered an award prior to enrolling in ECE. For the most part, faculty prefer to survey the achievement of students for one or two semesters before bestowing financial reward. |
| University of Texas at Dallas | $75 | ER | Communications and Signal Processing, Telecommunications, Digital Systems, Digital Microelectronic Systems, Optical Devices, Materials and Systems, Solid-State Devices and Circuits, VLSI design, computer architecture, control theory, digital communications, modulation and coding, electromagnetic-wave propagation, fiber and integrated optics, nanoelectronics and wireless communications. | UTD is located at the heart of a high concentration of companies that specialize in the areas of microelectronics, telecommunications, signal processing and optics. For additional information contact: Dr. Gerald Burnham, Program Head at burnham@utdallas.edu |
| Virginia Tech | $25 | #23 | Communications: Space Communications, Wireless Telecommunications, DSP and Communications, Mobile and Portable Radio Research: Satellite Communications, Controls and Systems: Control Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Motion Control, Robotics, Electromagnetics: Antenna, Electromagnetics, Fiber & Electro-Optics, Optical Image Processing, Photonics, Wireless Microsystems Electronics: Power Electronics Systems, Microelectronics, Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology (MicrON), Power Electronics Systems, Energy and the Global Environment. | The Electrical and Computer Engineering is among the largest in the country. Nearly 70 percent of on-campus graduate students receive financial assistance in the form of fellowships, scholarships, teaching assistantships, research assistantships, and corporate/government support. Student loans are available to those students who are not otherwise supported. |
| TOP TIER SCHOOLS | ||||
| Carnegie Mellon University | #8 | Wireless
Communications, Computer Engineering and Computer Systems, Computer-Aided Design and
VLSI Manufacturing, Embedded and Real-Time Systems, Intelligent Systems Semiconductor Devices and Materials, Magnetics and Data Storage Systems, Microelectromechanical Systems [MEMS], Signal Processing, Multimedia and Sensor, Exploitation Systems. |
EE Dept ranked #11 by USNews. | |
| Cornell | $65 | #9 | Communications, Information Theory, Signal Processing, and Power and Control: Pattern classification, neural networks, and signal processing; Computer Engineering: Software technology and applications, such as microcontroller system design, Parallel processing, distributed processing, and computer networks, VLSI design, hardware verification, CAD, and simulation; Plasma Physics, Space Physics, and Electromagnetics, Solid-State Electronics and Optoelectronics, Bioelectronics and Bioelectric Systems. | Students applying for the MS/Ph.D. program are automatically considered for a number of fellowships. |
| MIT | $55 | #1 | ||
| Purdue | $30 | #8 | Automatic Control,
Biomedical Engineering, Communication & Signal Processing, Computer Engineering, Energy Sources and Systems, Fields and Optics, Solid State Devices and Materials, VLSI and Circuit Design. |
Opportunities for qualified students to obtain financial assistance include graduate teaching assistantships, research assistantships, and a limited number of departmental and industrial fellowships. Info on fellowship at: http://ece.www.ecn.purdue.edu/ |
| Rice | $35 | ECE Department expects to have openings for up to three postdoc positions, involving research in dig |