1. State of the Program Spring 2015
ECE Graduate Program
State of the Program
Spring 2015

2. Graduate Faculty Charles Baylis Kwang Lee Enrique Blair Yang Li
Liang Dong
Bob Marks
Mack Grady
Linda Olafsen
Ian Gravagne
Keith Schubert
Jonathan Hu
Mike Thompson
Randall Jean
New Faculty 3
Scott Koziol

3. Current Masters Candidates
Joseph Barkate*
Sean Garvey*
Sarah Britton *
Moises Martinez*
Chris Dover *
David Nemati
Daniel Drake*
Adam Parks*
Brian Ernzen
Yan Shi
Sarah Fellows*
Josh Stone*
*Baylor BS Graduates

4. Current Ph.D. Students Dr. Reza Abedi Blake Schultze Wenlei Bai
Willis Troy**
Zongqi (Ritchie) Cai
Chengli Wei
Mehdi Ebad
Guiying Wu
Matthew Fellows**
Bin Xu
Dr. Brandon Herrera**
Dong Xue
Paniz Karbasi*
Albert Yu*
Dr. Yanqing Liu
Chao Niu
*Baylor MS Degree
Iwan Sandjaja
**Baylor BS & MS Degrees

5. PhD Research Focus Areas

6. Research Areas Complex and Adaptive Systems Power & Energy Systems
• Cyber-Physical Systems & Wireless Communication
• Antennas
• Photonics
• Spectrum Engineering & Radar
• Microwave Applied Metrology
• DSP & Communications
• Robotics & Embedded Systems
• Imaging, Computational Theory & Uncertain Systems
• Time-Scale Dynamic Systems
Power & Energy Systems
• Power Electronics
• Renewable Energy
• Smart Grid

7. 4000 Level Courses with Graduate Credit
4318 Avionics System Design
4372 Bioinstrumentation
4320 Introduction to Optics
4377 Solar Energy
4330 Introduction to Robotics
4381 Antennas and Wireless Propagation I
4332 Automatic Control Systems
4330 Power Systems
4383 RF/Microwave Circuits I
4345 Power Electronics
4384 RF/Microwave Circuits II
4350 Principles of Communication
4396 Special Topics in Electrical or Computer Engineering
4351 Digital Signal Processing
4438 Embedded Systems Design
4553 Image Formation Processing
4V97 Special Projects in Electrical or Computer Engineering
4360 Software Systems
4362 Wireless Sensor Networks

8. Graduate Level Courses
5302 Engineering Analysis
5362 Optimal Control
5311 Advanced Logic Design
5370 Intro. to Information Theory
5313 Adv. Computer Architecture
5381 Adv. Power Grid Interface Techniques
5316 Real-Time Systems Design
5336 Advanced Engineering EM
5390 Research Methods and Project Formulation
5337 Prin. of MW Sens. and Meas.
5396 Special Topics in Engineering
5338 High Frequency Electronics I
Waveguides
5339 High Frequency Electronics II
Smart Grid
5340 Radar Engineering
Antenna Design
5351 Multidimensional Signal Analysis
Integrated Photonics
5353 Biomedical Signal Analysis
Intelligent Control
5354 Random Signals and Noise
5V99 Master’s Thesis
5358 Intro. to Comp. Intelligence
6V10 Doctorial Prospectus Research
5360 Linear Systems
6V99 Dissertation

9. Challenges External Funding Capital Equipment (Computers) Recruiting
Current Grants
$80K Research Stipends (Spring Semester)
Internal Funding
$266K Teaching Assistant Stipends (Academic Year)
$427K Tuition Remission
Capital Equipment (Computers)
Recruiting