The master’s degree is primarily a coursework-oriented program.

Specializations

Acoustics and underwater acoustics: communication, detection, classification, and localization for underwater acoustic channels, speech processing.

Biomedical engineering: modeling and control of physiological systems; medical instrumentation and biosignal processing, pattern recognition and image processing (texture analysis, image classification, and segmentation) in medicine; assistive technology to aid persons with disabilities; cardiac anatomy, electrophysiology, and mechanics and resuscitation; neural engineering.

Circuits and devices: mixed signal integrated circuits, VLSI design and simulation, high-level synthesis and design tools, design automation and optimization, high-resolution data converters, low-power CMOS circuits, device physics and device modeling.

Communication theory: statistical and computer communications; data compression and coding; modulation and demodulation; Monte Carlo simulation; local area networks, reliable and secure communication.

Computer architectures and digital systems: processor architectures, memory structures, I/O systems, reliable data storage systems, RAID/SAN/NAS storages, parallel and distributed systems, FPGA designs, VHDL/Verilog, VLSI designs and layouts, adaptive systems, control and data speculation.

Computer networks: computer network architectures and protocols, TCP/IP, local area networks (LAN), Internet applications, wired and wireless computer communication, network security, distributed computing systems.

Digital signal processing: detection and parameter estimation; prediction and filtering; spectrum analysis; array processing; digital filter synthesis; adaptive filtering, algorithm design.

Embedded systems and computer applications: embedded system designs, hardware/software designs in embedded applications for networking devices, automobiles, image processing, home appliances, and computer forensics.

Fault-tolerant computing: fault-tolerant computer systems, hardware/software testing, error control coding, data protection and data recovery technologies, reliability and availability modeling, system simulations for performance and reliability analysis of computer systems.

Materials and optics: electrical and optical properties of materials, laser-matter interaction, photocathodes; crystallographic techniques for submicron X-ray lithography; radiation damage in nonmetallic solids; mode characteristics in optical and infrared fiber waveguides; fiber optic sensors; fiber optical amplifiers; electro-optic modulators.

Systems theory: control and estimation theory, intelligent systems; multivariable systems; nonlinear systems, modeling of deterministic and stochastic systems; model order reduction; optimal smoothing, filtering and prediction; pattern recognition, classification, computer vision; computerized imaging systems and image analysis.