Graduate Catalog 1993-1994
College of Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering
General Information

Telephone: (302) 831-2406

   The Electrical Engineering Department offers the degrees of Master
of Electrical Engineering and Doctor of Philosophy in electrical
engineering.
   Active areas of research in electrical engineering are signal and
image processing and estimation, with emphasis on digital techniques;
communications theory; devices and materials, with emphasis on
semiconductors, electronic materials, and integrated optics;
electrooptical systems, with emphasis on optical communication and
holography; and digital systems, with emphasis on distributed
software, microprocessor applications, speech characterization, and
networking.
   Facilities are available for research in each of the areas.
Excellent departmental laboratories support the devices, materials and
electrooptical systems research in addition to the extensive
facilities of the various other components of the interdepartmental
materials program in engineering. Solid state and optical
communication facilities include class 10 and class 1000 clean rooms
equipped for semiconductor device fabrication and crystal growth, and
well-equipped labs for electronic and optical measurements.
   Excellent computing facilities are readily available for research.
The Electrical Engineering Department, in cooperation with the
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, maintains a large
number of SUN workstations for use in VLSI design, modeling and
simulation, signal processing, and computer networking research. Image
processing research is supported by several high-performance Silicon
Graphics imaging workstations. In total, the department has two Sun-
4/300 servers, twenty SUN-4 workstations, twenty-five SUN-3
workstations, three Silicon Graphics workstations, three VAX 11-780
minicomputers, a 16-processor Sequent parallel computer, and some
thirty IBM PC's. In addition, the University provides a large number
of computers to support research and teaching activities including
several SUN-4/490's, an IBM RS/6000-950, an IBM 3090 supercomputer,
and a large number of SUN-4 workstations.
   All graduate students must participate in the research programs of
the University. Publication of the results of student research is an
important goal of the program. Graduate students are expected to
participate in one of the research seminars conducted in each of the
areas of departmental concentration.