PhD
PhD
Electrical Engineering,
The Department of Electrical Engineering offers a Ph.D. degree program with many active research areas.
Description
These programs are funded by various federal, state, and private agencies with annual research expenditures exceeding $2 million. Active research areas include biomedical engineering, digital and wireless communications, digital and VLSI design, digital signal processing, electro-optics, ellipsometry, mixed-signal circuit design, nanotechnology, optics of nanostructure materials, plasma processing, power systems, remote sensing and electromagnetics, and solid-state devices and materials.
The department has extensive research facilities for all areas of active research and graduate students have the flexibility to pursue their own research experience. In addition to computing facilities individually operated by each research group, the department administers a network of high-end UNIX workstations and PCs which are regularly upgraded. These facilities are used for classroom instruction as well as the individual needs of the students.
Specializations
Applying for Admission
Standard requirements for all graduate programs
- Application for Admission with $50 non-refundable application fee.
- Transcripts (unofficial): Uploaded as part of application form.
If International: Uploads must include all college- or university-level transcripts or mark sheets (records of courses and marks earned), with certificates, diplomas, and degrees plus certified English translations.
After admission: Official documents are required from all students who are admitted and enroll. Photocopies of certified records are not acceptable. International students enrolled in other U.S. institutions may have certified copies of all foreign records sent directly to the Office of Graduate Studies by their current school’s registrar office.
- If applicant’s native language is not English, verification of English proficiency
is required.
When sending TOEFL scores, our institution code is 6877 and a department code is not needed.
- If applicant is not a US citizen and expects an F or J visa: financial information.
- Applicants must also fulfill any additional requirements the department specifies at the time of application.
Additional requirements specific to this program
- GRE (optional)
- Personal Statement
- Three letters of recommendation
- Resume or CV
- Other Uploads: Optionally, applicants may upload or provide links to additional documents for the committee to review, such as research papers, theses, or publications, that have not already been uploaded elsewhere in the application.
Admission Application Deadlines
Department
Graduate Chair
Support Staff
Campus Address
Program Faculty
Don Nelson (bio)
Graphic Databases, Distributed Management Information Systems, Interactive Data Management and Retrieval, Interactive Management/Modeling, Communication Network Simulation, Load Analysis and Projection, Power Production Modeling
Dean Patterson (bio)
Efficient Electric Vehicles
Lance Perez (bio)
Health Care Monitoring of Medicare Patients
Eric Psota (bio)
Image Processing and Computer Vision, Signal Processing and Communications
Wei Qiao (bio)
Renewable Energy Systems, Microgrids, Electric Power Systems, Power Electronics, Electric Machines, Control Systems, Computational Intelligence
Liyan Qu (bio)
Modeling techniques to Facilitate the Analysis and Design of Complex, High-Performance Electric Energy Systems, Numerical Analysis and Computer Aided Design for Electric Machinery and Power Electronic Devices and Circuits, Electric Machines and Drives
Khalid Sayood (bio)
Gene Regulation Using uORFs in Yeast, Whole Genome Phylogeny, Characterizations of Microbiomes
Mathias Schubert (bio)
Nanoscience of Hybrid Optical Materials, Generalized Ellipsometry, Nanostructure Properties and Multi-Ferroic Heterostructure
Paul Snyder (bio)
Optical Properties of Semiconductors and Nanoscale Materials, Thin Film Structures, Real-Time Control
Rodney Soukup (bio)
Thin Film Semiconductors for Solar Cells, Tunable Antenna Applications, Hollow Cathode Deposition Technique
Hamid Vakilzadian (bio)
Modeling and Simulation of Digital Systems, Embedded and Fuzzy Systems, Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Interconnection Networks
Jerald Varner (bio)
Digital Signal Processing
Jun Wang (bio)
Wide-bandgap power electronics, Medium-voltage dc (MVDC) power distribution and protection systems, Heavy-duty transportation electrification, Semiconductor fault prognostics and diagnostics, Biomedical power electronic
John Woollam (bio)
Thin Films, Interfacial and Environmental Effects on Materials
UNL Graduate Chairs and staff please complete the program update form to provide edits. Updates to graduate program pages are made on an annual basis in conjunction with the Graduate Application for Admission.