Electrical Engineering (MS/Ph.D)

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Akron (UA) offers Master of Science (MS) degrees in Electrical Engineering and Interdisciplinary Doctoral (PhD) degrees in Engineering. Areas of specialization for graduate students in ECE include communications and signal processing, computer engineering, control systems, electronics and VLSI, electromagnetics, optics, and power electronics and motor drives.

Admission Requirements

Applicants for graduate studies in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering must hold a bachelor

Akron Advantage

In addition to ECE computing facilities, which include a wide variety of the latest networked computers, workstations and servers, college and university computing facilities are available for graduate student work and research. These include IBM, DEC Alpha 600/AU Tru64 Unix, and other Unix-based systems, all of which have network connections. ECE computer facilities feature the software typically required for ECE teaching and research. In addition to modern and well-equipped teaching laboratories, ECE maintains a number of specialized laboratories dedicated to graduate research: Applied magnetics and nondestructive testing lab, control research lab, power electronics and motion control lab, pervasive automation lab.

Additional Information

A student who has a master’s degree from another university or from one of the departments in the College of Engineering, upon recommendation of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Committee, may transfer up to 24 credits of course work. The courses comprising the transfer credits must be identified and itemized on the plan of study and must be substantiated by an official transcript from the educational institution that offered the courses. No more than six credit hours of research or complete thesis credits can be transferred.