Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Degrees
The College offers Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Biomedical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering.
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PhD in Biomedical Engineering
Areas of study in Biomedical Engineering include:
- Biomechanics, Biomaterials, and Medical Devices
- Bioinstrumentation, and Biomedical Image/Signal Processing
- Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering
- Medical Physics and Nuclear Medicine
- Bio-nanotechnology and Systems Biology
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PhD in Civil Engineering
Areas of study in Civil Engineering include:
- Transportation Engineering
- Environmental Sciences and Engineering
- Structural Engineering
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Construction Engineering and Management
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PhD in Computer Science
Areas of study in Computer Science include:
- Networking and distributed systems, wireless networks, mobile and ubiquitous computing, routers, and switches, system modeling.
- Operating systems, distrusted computing, storage systems, virtualization, security, and real-time systems.
- Database systems, including distributed databases, information retrieval in heterogeneous databases, multimedia databases, data mining, and digital libraries.
- Software engineering, including formal methods, software testing techniques, software architecture, software security, software design, model-driven software development, and grid computing.
- Theory, including algorithms and data structures, programming languages, program verification, and logic.
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
- Artificial Intelligence, including machine learning, expert systems, intelligent agents, affective computing, cognitive science, intelligent human-computer interaction, social informatics.
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PhD in Electrical Engineering
Areas of study in Electrical Engineering include:
- Biomedical Sciences and Engineering
- Micro-Electronics, Nano-Electronics and Photonics
- Computer Engineering
- Systems and Controls
- Electromagnetics and Nanomagnetics
- Power Systems
- Telecommunications and Networking
- Digital Signal and Image Processing
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PhD in Material Science and Engineering
Areas of study in Mechanical and Materials Engineering include:
- Thermo/Fluids Sciences
- Biomedical Engineering
- Mechanics of Materials
- Nanostructured Materials
- Ceramics and Electronic Materials
- CAD/CAM
- Manufacturing
- Modeling and Simulation
- Nano Devices
- Applied Mechanics
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PhD in Mechanical Engineering
Areas of study in Mechanical and Materials Engineering include:
- Thermo/Fluids Sciences
- Biomedical Engineering
- Mechanics of Materials
- Nanostructured Materials
- Ceramics and Electronic Materials
- CAD/CAM
- Manufacturing
- Modeling and Simulation
- Nano Devices
- Applied Mechanics
