PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Department offers a graduate program leading to the Master of Science (M.S.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in Electrical Engineering. The diversity of course offerings and research interests within the Department, and our interactions with the medical and dental schools at UMAB, with the Mathematics and Physics Departments at UMBC, and with the Electrical Engineering Department at UMCP, encompass a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary or strictly electrical engineering instruction and research topics.

Areas of specialization in EE include:

Communications  (random processes, detection and estimation theory, information theory, source and channel coding, communication theory, wireline and wireless communication, optical fiber communications, data compression, and applications of adaptive signal processing in communication).

Microelectronics (solid-state electronics, semiconductor devices and processing technology, semiconductor optoelectronics, compound semiconductor electronics, and integrated circuits).

Photonics (electromagnetic theory, quantum electronics, lasers, photonics, non‑linear optics, fiber optic communications, and ultrafast optics).

Signal Processing  (signal and linear system theory, digital signal processing, adaptive signal processing, speech processing, neural networks, pattern recognition, spectral and time-frequency analysis, and biomedical signal processing).

Image Processing (automatic target recognition, pattern recognition, neural networks, image coding and compression, multispectral/hyperspectral imaging, medical imaging, visual information system and retrieval)