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The department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has recently been awarded a large, prestigious Department of Education Grant (for Graduate Assistants in Areas of National Need - GAANN) to fund U.S. national doctoral students in Electrical and Computer Engineering. The philosophy of our small, but selective, department is to focus on research areas in which our faculty have made significant contributions. Areas of particular strength in which it is anticipated that these fellowships will be awarded are:

·          Physical Electronics

Ultrafast Laser Applications; Surface Science; Bioelectrical Effects; Non-Intrusive Measurements with Lasers; Fiber Bragg Gratings; Gaseous Electronics, including Micro-Hollow Cathode Discharges; Microelectronics; Modeling of Ultrafast Processes in Semiconductors; Diamond Films; Electromagnetic Wave Propagation; Satellite and LIDAR Remote Sensing Measurements of the Atmosphere.

·          Digital Signal Processing

Speech Communication; Real-time Digital Signal Processing; Digital System Design; Biomedical Applications of Microprocessors

·          Control Engineering

Nonlinear Control Theory; Computer Vision; Artificial Intelligence Applications

·          Computer Engineering

The department has a rapidly growing activity in Computer Engineering and plays a vital role in state-of-the-art modeling and simulation activities through the Virginia Modeling and Simulation Center (VMASC).

 

The department is seeking highly motivated and talented students who have strong academic backgrounds (including top GRE scores and top ranking in their undergraduate/graduate Electrical Engineering programs) and an ambition to pursue a doctorate in Electrical Engineering.  Funding, in the range of  $15,000 is available for a few such students in the areas listed above.  In addition to this stipend, the offer includes money for a computer, some travel funds, and a full tuition grant that could be worth an additional $12,000. Suitable applicants with degrees in related fields such as Physics and Chemistry will also be considered for research areas within the Physical Electronics track.

Professor Amin Dharamsi
Graduate Program Director
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA 23529-0246
e-mail:    adharams@odu.edu
URL:    http://www.ece.odu.edu/~adharams/

Departmental URL:    http://www.ece.odu.edu