Graduate.

The opportunity for leadership in engineering often depends on an academic background that includes graduate study. Graduate study both deepens the basic engineering knowledge provided by undergraduate programs and extends the engineer's capabilities for advancing that knowledge and applying it. Accordingly, engineers with advanced degrees not only have greater competence in their field, but also greater confidence in their capabilities.

The Electrical Engineering Department offers graduate programs leading to the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees, and currently has some 65 full-time students working towards their Ph.D. degree.

In recognition of the growing importance of Photonics as an enabling multidisciplinary field, Duke Graduate School has created a Certificate in Photonics. The purpose of the certificate is to broaden the scope of the typical disciplinary graduate student-training program. Students are encouraged to develop interdisciplinary and transferable sets of skills in their course work and research activities. The program is designed to accommodate both Professional MS and PhD students who have been admitted to one of the participating departments.

The ECE Department's research is focused on the following themes:

• Signal Processing,
• Solid State Devices,
• Electromagnetics,
• Computer Engineering and
• Intelligent Controls.

Our research is funded through external agencies and foundations including the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health, the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Office, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Whitaker Foundation. Industrial support is also an important component of our research funding, including grants from IBM, Bellcore, Mitsubishi, Draper Laboratories, Sandoz, Allied Signal, Canon, Holiday Inn, and others.

The Department has some 26 full-time and 15 part-time faculty directing advanced research, and offers undergraduate and graduate courses in major areas of Electrical Engineering such as Electromagnetics and Sensing, Computer Engineering, Microsystems and Microelectronics, Optical Systems, and Signal Processing. Several faculty members are active in research on Electrical and Computer Engineering methods in Medicine and the Life Sciences, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Microwave Treatment of Cancer, and the design of sophisticated biomedical sensors.

Numerous opportunities for Research and Teaching Assistantships in the above areas exist for qualified graduate students.