The mission of The University of Texas at Arlington is to pursue knowledge, truth and excellence in a student-centered academic community characterized by shared values, unity of purpose, diversity of opinion, mutual respect and social responsibility. UTA has developed over a 100 years to a comprehensive research, teaching and public service institution. The university offers 52 baccalaureate, 74 masters and 34 doctoral degree programs. Nearly 20,000 students come from 88 nations.

The Community
The University of Texas at Arlington is located in the heart of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. The UTA campus occupies more than 400 acres in the center of the city of Arlington. The DFW Regional Airport, 10 miles from the UTA campus, provides ready travel access to the entire world. The DFW metro area has many cultural and entertainment options including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth/Dallas Ballet, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Kimbell Art Museum. Arlington is the home of the Texas Rangers baseball team, and nearby Irving is the home of the Dallas Cowboys football team. The DFW Metroplex is one of the nation's largest high-technology regions. The EE Department continuously maintains interactions with industry leaders in areas such as electronics, systems, telecommunication, integrated circuits, optoelectronics and power systems. The concentration of the telecommunications industry in the north Dallas Telecommunications Corridor (30 miles from UTA) is the largest in the world.

Programs of study and degree requirements
The Department of Electrical Engineering is authorized to grant the M.S., M.Engr., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. Candidates for all degrees whose primary language is not English must have a score of 40 or more in the Test of Spoken English. M.S. and Ph.D. students must take courses in at least four of the following areas: Core; Microprocessors and Digital Systems; Systems and Controls; Electromagnetic Fields, Microwave Systems and Optics; High Frequency Microelectronic Devices and Circuits; Signal Processing; Communications; Energy Systems; Applied Physical Electronics; and Other Engineering or Science courses.

The M.S. degree has three options: The Thesis Option requires 24 semester hours (s.h.) of coursework and the completion of a thesis and thesis defense. The Thesis Substitute Option requires 30 s.h. of coursework and completion of a Research Project and Project Presentation. The Non-Thesis Option requires 36 s.h. of coursework and the Graduate Seminar.

The Ph.D. is primarily a research degree. Coursework beyond the M.S. of at least 30 s.h. is usually required to adequately prepare for the research. The student must pass a Diagnostic Examination based on course grades and a Research Potential Assessment, and must also pass a Comprehensive Examination by giving a Dissertation Proposal. The Dissertation and Dissertation Defense complete the Ph.D. degree requirements.

The M.Engr. degree is a practice-oriented degree requiring 36 s.h. distributed in the three areas of Engineering Design, Analysis and Synthesis; Advanced Mathematics, Basic Science and Engineering Science and Design; and courses chosen to complement specified portions of the program and provide a meaningful total program.

Facilities & Resources
The Department of Electrical Engineering has laboratories, offices and classrooms in the College of Engineering. Research facilities of the Department of Electrical Engineering are included in the following institutes, research centers, and laboratories: The Automation and Robotics Research Institute; Human Performance Institute; ElectroOptics Research Center; Energy Systems Research Center; National Science Foundation Center for Electronic Materials, Devices and Systems; Wave Scattering Research Center; and the Digital Image Processing; Image Processing and Neural Networks; Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Systems; Controls and Manufacturing Laboratories.

Expenses and Aid
Tuition and estimated fees are $3,155 for Texas residents and $8,206 for non-residents. Fellowships and Assistantships are available. Stipends range from $9,000 to $18,000 per year. Housing is readily available on campus and nearby. Rents range from $300 to $700 per month.

How to Apply
The successful applicant will have the equivalent of a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from a recognized university. A minimum grade point average of 3.0/4.0 (3.5 for PhD) or equivalent is required. The GRE requirement is for a minimum score of 350 Verbal and 700 (750 for PhD) Quantitative. Students with a primary language other than English must have a TOEFL score of at least 550. Applications may be obtained from: Graduate Admissions, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, or by e-mail to graduate.school@uta.edu. Assistantship applications may be obtained by contacting the Graduate Advisor. GTA awards are competitive. Students with a related background other than Electrical Engineering may take a series of leveling courses in order to fulfill the admissions requirements.

Who to contact
For more information, contact:
Prof. Adrian Fung
EE Graduate Advisor
Department of Electrical Engineering
The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019
Tel: 817 272 2671
Fax: 817 272 2253
E-Mail: eefung@uta.edu
http://www-ee.uta.edu

The Faculty
DIGITAL SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING MICHAEL CHWIALKOWSKI, Ph.D., Warsaw, 1982. Medical imaging, non-invasive medical diagnostics using Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging technology; digital instrumentation for acquisition and processing of RF signals; control theory and its applications in robotics and modeling of human functions. chwialkowski@ee2.uta.edu VENKAT DEVARAJAN, Ph.D., UTA, 1979. Digital photogrammetry, computer vision and image processing. venkat@uta.edu MICHAEL T. MANRY, Ph.D., UT/Austin, 1976. Neural networks, image processing, digital signal processing, parameter estimation, and pattern recognition. manry@uta.edu K. R. RAO, Ph.D., New Mexico, 1966. Digital image/video/audio compression and coding for transmission and storage based on international standards (ITU, ISO, IEC). Multimedia, video indexing & retrieval. rao@uta.edu

ELECTROMAGNETICS AND APPLICATIONS JONATHAN W. BREDOW, Ph.D., Kansas, 1989. Remote sensing, radar, microwave circuits, antennas, electromagnetics, digital signal processing, digital systems. jbredow@uta.edu ADRIAN K. FUNG, Ph.D., Kansas, 1965, IEEE Fellow. Wave scattering and emission from rough surfaces and random media with application to soil, vegetation, snow, ocean and sea ice; radar image simulations and interpretation; numerical simulation of terrain scattering; scattering from objects and random analysis. eefung@uta.edu ROBERT MAGNUSSON, Ph.D., Georgia Tech., 1976. Diffractive optics, waveguide optics, thin-film optics, optical filters, electromagnetics, electro-optics, diffraction grating analysis and design, holography, interferometry, integrated optics. magnusson@uta.edu THERESA A. MALDONADO, Ph.D., Georgia Tech., 1990. Electro-optics, integrated optics, nonlinear optics, fiber optics. maldonado@uta.edu CHARLES V. SMITH, Ph.D., MIT, 1968. Electro-magnetic theory, wave propagation, continuum electromechanics, energy conversion. smith@ee.uta.edu

POWER SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS MO-SHING CHEN, Ph.D., UT/Austin, 1958, IEEE Fellow. Modeling and analysis of electric power systems; the computer simulation of electric energy systems; power system planning; economical and secure operation of electric power systems; energy conservation; modeling of synchronous machines; and modeling of power system load. munoz@ee.uta.edu WILLIAM E. DILLON, Ph.D., UTA, 1972. Power electronics; space power applications; high voltage techniques; conventional power system analysis; computer simulation of electrical components and systems. dillon@uta.edu WEI-JEN LEE, Ph.D., UTA, 1985. Power system transient stability analysis; power system dynamic stability analysis and control; power system load flow analysis; power system operations; numerical methods in power system simulations; low voltage surge protection; power electronics. lee@uta.edu RAYMOND R. SHOULTS, Ph.D., UTA, 1974. Advanced computer methods for power system engineering; computer simulation of power system planning; analysis of large-scale networks; optimization in power system analysis; rapid and conventional power flow techniques; reactive power flow analysis; power system operation and control; advanced automatic generation control strategies and simulation; industrial short-circuit calculations for breaker application; reliability methods in power system analysis. shoults@uta.edu SYSTEMS, CONTROLS AND AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING JACK FITZER, D.Sc., Washington Univ., 1962. (817-272-3472) Control systems; system modeling; photovoltaic applications and robotics. fitzer@uta.edu GEORGE V. KONDRASKE, Ph.D., UTA and UTHSCD, 1982. General systems performance theory; human performance modeling and measurement; task characterization; performance-related issues associated with any type of system; cybernetics; virtual reality; sensor development; and microprocessor-based instrumentation. gvk@hpi.uta.edu FRANK L. LEWIS, Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 1981, IEEE Fellow. System modeling and control; robotics and nonlinear process control; neural networks and fuzzy logic systems in feedback control; discrete event manufacturing controllers; robust and adaptive systems. flewis@controls.uta.edu KAI-SHING YEUNG, Dr.-Ing., Karlsruhe, 1977. Nonlinear control; robust control; systems theory; signal processing. kai.yeung@uta.edu TELECOMMUNICATIONS JOHN H. McELROY, Ph.D., Catholic University, 1978, IEEE Fellow. Engineering management, communication satellites, and earth observation satellites. jhmcelroy@uta.edu VASANT K. PRABHU, D.Sc., MIT, 1963, IEEE Fellow. Telecommunications systems, digital and analog communications, communication theory, error correcting codes, simulation of communications systems, microwave propagation and transmission, point-to-point radio transmission, interference analysis of communications systems, spread spectrum communications, cellular radio communications, light wave communications, satellite communications, network theory, optical communications, personal communications systems, digital signal processing. prabhu@ee.uta.edu HAROLD SOBOL, Ph.D., Michigan, 1959, IEEE Fellow. Telecommunications systems, digital and analog communications, lightwave and microwave transmission, microwave theory and techniques, microwave and lightwave semiconductor devices, GaAs devices, microwave integrated circuits. SAIBUN TJUATJA, Ph.D., UTA, 1992. Remote sensing of the environment; wave scattering and emission from random media; parametric retrieval using remotely sensed data; wireless communications; numerical techniques for electromagnetics. tjuatja@uta.edu VLSI AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES KAMBIZ ALAVI, Ph.D., MIT, 1981. Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) of Compound Semiconductors, physics and applications of heterostructures, multiple quantum wells and superlattices for optoelectronic and electronic devices, magneto-optics; nonlinear optics. alavi@uta.edu RONALD L. CARTER, Ph.D., Michigan St., 1971. Development of device models for use in computer-aided design of integrated circuits, simulation and characterization of solid state devices, silicon and heterojunction bipolar transistors, step-recovery and PIN diodes, electronics manufacturing, statistical process control and quality management. ronc@uta.edu W. ALAN DAVIS, Ph.D., Michigan, 1971. Microwave and RF circuit component design, microwave semiconductor device modeling. adavis@uta.edu

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