Graduate
Graduate students are vital to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s research efforts.
Degrees
Applicants for graduate work in electrical and computer engineering must apply for admission to UA’s Graduate School. Faculty and their students are conducting research in four core electrical and computer engineering areas: devices and materials, electromechanical and energy systems, embedded systems, and electromagnetics. Please refer to the Graduate Catalog for specific admission requirements.
Graduate Application Deadlines
| Domestic & International |
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| No formal deadlines for graduate applications |
| International applicants should consider the time required to obtain travel documents from country of origin when applying. |
For additional information about electrical and computer engineering graduate programs, please send an email to ecegradapps@ua.edu.
About Us
Research Areas
UA’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department offers various opportunities for research with our faculty members in areas including:
- Antennas
- Antennas and Arrays
- Artificial Intelligence
- Asynchronous VLSI Design
- Automatic Target Recognition
- Battery Electric Vehicles
- Behavioral Health Informatics
- Bio-nanophotonics
- Biomedical Devices
- Biomedical Engineering
- Biomedical Imaging
- Bulk Single Crystal and Thin Film Growth of Electronic Material
- Ceramic Transistors and Sensors
- Computer Vision
- Connected and Automated Vehicles
- Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
- Cyber-Physical Security
- Deep Learning
- Device Fabrication
- Devices
- Electric Vehicles
- Electromechanical Systems
- Electronics
- Embedded systems
- Energy
- Energy-storage Materials
- Ferroelectrics
- Fuzzy Systems
- High Speed Printing
- Hybrid Devices
- Image Processing
- Internal Combustion Engines
- Internet of Things
- Machine Learning
- Magnetic Materials
- Magnetism
- MEMS
- Micro/Nano Fabrication
- Microgrid
- Millimeter Wave
- Millimeter Wave Automotive Radar
- Next-Generation Radar Systems
- Optoelectronics
- Permanent Magnets
- Photonics Semiconductors
- Power Electronics
- Power Electronics Systems
- Power Systems
- Processing and Evaluation of Electroceramics
- Radar Signal Processing
- Radar Systems
- Real Time Control
- Real-Time Computation
- Remote Sensing
- Renewable Energy Systems
- RF Circuits/System
- Sensing
- Sensors
- Sensors for Dietary Assessment
- Sensors for Smoking Assessment and Cessation
- Signal and Data Processing
- Smart Grid
- Solar Cells
- Spintronics
- Spintronics and Magneto-Electronics
- Statistical Signal Processing
- Technology-Driven Interventions
- Terahertz technology
- Wearable Sensors
- Wireless Charging
- Wireless Networks
Current Student Forms
Graduate School Forms
The Graduate School forms above must be initiated by the department, but shows what is needed for graduation. This is not a complete list of all possible forms. Only those that are required prior to getting a degree. Please contact your academic advisor/graduate director for submission of your form(s).
ECE Graduate Student Forms
PhD students
- Ph.D. Dissertation and M.S. Thesis defense announcement template
- PhD Dissertation Defense checklist
- MSEE en route to PhD procedure
- Graduate Coursework Transfer Procedure
- Plan of Study submission procedure 2024-2025
- Plan of Study submission procedure 2023-2024
- Plan of Study submission procedure 2022-2023
- Plan of Study submission procedure 2021-2022
MS students
ECE Graduate Student Assessment Forms
The forms below are for a student to print out and bring to a Graduate Student Assessment.
Graduate Admissions
Applicants for graduate work in electrical and computer engineering must apply for admission to UA’s Graduate School. Regular admission may be granted to applicants who have an electrical engineering degree from an ABET accredited program and an overall GPA above 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, 3.0 for the last 60 semester hours in a degree program or 3.0 for a completed graduate program. Also, to be eligible for regular admission, applicants must have earned a score of 300 (total combined verbal and quantitative subscores) on the GRE.
Conditional admission may be granted to applicants who do not meet these requirements, for example those who have degrees in related fields or a GPA below 3.0. International students must have a TOEFL score of 79 (iBT) or 550 (pBT) or higher for the consideration of admission to the ECE graduate program. GRE Verbal and Analytical Writing scores must be consistent with the international applicant’s TOEFL score.
Admissions Requirements for Graduate Students Without an Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering Bachelor’s Degree
Applicants without an electrical engineering or computer engineering bachelor’s degree may be admitted conditionally. The student will be required to complete successfully three 400-level electrical engineering courses, each in a different sequence area. Successful completion requires a “B” or better in the course. Slash-listed (400/500) courses taken to satisfy this policy cannot be counted toward the graduate degree.
Equivalent undergraduate or graduate courses in related fields (for example, electromagnetics in physics, computer architecture in computer science, or control in mechanical engineering) may be counted as a course in the corresponding electrical engineering area upon approval by the ECE Graduate Program Director.
Graduate Funding Opportunities
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering offers financial assistance to outstanding applicants in the form of teaching and research assistantships. A half-time teaching or research assistantship provides a competitive stipend and a full-tuition scholarship for the academic year. A student applying for graduate studies in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is automatically considered for a departmental assistantship during the review of the application materials. Continuing students must complete the departmental assistantship application. Notices of continuing assistantship applications and deadlines are made by the Department during fall and spring semesters.
The Department awards teaching assistantships (GTA) on the basis of expected teaching ability. An individual faculty member, who has sponsored research funds at the professor’s disposal, awards research assistantships (GRA). A GRA appointment is made on the basis of mutual interests between student and professor. Only students who maintain an acceptable performance level are eligible for assistantships.
University Wide Options
