Graduate programs

The ECE Department offers M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in a variety of Electrical and Computer Engineering technical areas. Programs are available on both a full-time and part-time basis. Many classes are offered in the late afternoons and early evenings.

Please refer to the departmental website at www.pdx.edu/ece for detailed program information.

Admission requirements

Electrical And Computer Engineering M.S.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D.

Electrical And Computer Engineering M.S.

Thesis and coursework-only options are available in the ECE M.S. program. All ECE M.S. students are required to complete a Program Completion Form approved by their faculty advisers before completion of sixteen EE and ECE graduate credits. In addition to the university master’s degree requirements, an M.S. student must complete at least 45 graduate level credits. Coursework taken without adviser approval may not be accepted as part of the student’s program. Each student will be assigned an interim adviser at the time of admission.

Thesis Option

Thesis M.S. students usually follow a plan consisting of five EE/ECE courses aligned with their thesis research area (20 credits), 9 credits of thesis, 2 credits of Grad School Essentials (ECE 563 and ECE 564), and 14 elective credits. Elective credits may include additional EE and ECE graduate courses, EE 501-EE 509/ECE 501-ECE 509 credits, or, with adviser approval, graduate classes from another department. Only 3 credits of EE 507/ECE 507 may be counted as elective credits.

Students should choose a research topic and adviser for their thesis; information on research in the department can be found on the department’s web site. Thesis M.S. students must also develop, write, and give an oral defense of a thesis approved by the student’s thesis committee. The defense is public and its schedule must be posted in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at least two weeks in advance. Please contact the Graduate Coordinator to schedule the defense and announcement. See the department’s web site for additional information about thesis requirements and deadlines.

Coursework-only option

For the coursework-only M.S. option, students take courses following an adviser-approved track of graduate classes. Please see the pre-approved coursework-only tracks below. These tracks were designed by the faculty to give both depth and breadth of knowledge in the specified study area. It is also possible for students to develop a custom track with their faculty adviser and approval by the Graduate Program Director. The coursework-only option requires students to complete 16 credits of EE and ECE graduate lecture classes that form a core specialization area, 16 credits of EE and ECE graduate lecture classes that provide depth and breadth, 4 credits of elective EE and ECE graduate lecture classes, and 9 credits of approved graduate electives.

The required 16 credits of core specialization for each of the pre-approved coursework-only tracks are as follows:

Analog, RF, and Microwave Circuit Design

ECE 521Analog Integrated Circuit Design I

4

ECE 522Analog Integrated Circuit Design II

4

ECE 531Microwave Circuit Design I

4

ECE 532Microwave Circuit Design II

4

Communications

ECE 561Communication Systems Design I

4

ECE 562Communication Systems Design II

4

EE 522Discrete Time Processing

4

EE 523Estimation and Detection

4

Computer Architecture and Design

ECE 585Microprocessor System Design

4

ECE 586Computer Architecture

4

ECE 587Advanced Computer Architecture I

4

ECE 588Advanced Computer Architecture II

4

Design Verification and Validation

ECE 571Introduction to System Verilog for Design and Verification

4

ECE 585Microprocessor System Design

4

ECE 593Fundamentals of Pre-Silicon Validation

4

ECE 595Emulation and Functional Specification Verification

4

Digital IC Design

ECE 525Digital Integrated Circuit Design I

4

ECE 526Digital Integrated Circuit Design II

4

ECE 530Physical Design of Digital Integrated Circuits

4

ECE 581ASIC: Modeling and Synthesis

4

Embedded Systems

ECE 540System-on-Chip Design with FPGAs

4

ECE 544Embedded System Design with FPGAs

4

ECE 558Embedded Systems Programming

4

ECE 584Foundations of Cyber-Physical Systems

4

Power Engineering

EE 530Analytical Methods for Power Systems

4

EE 531Power Systems Protection

4

EE 532Electrical Machine Analysis and Design

4

ECE 545Power Electronic Systems Design I

4

Signal Processing and Machine Learning

EE 516Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning

4

EE 520Random Processes

4

EE 522Discrete Time Processing

4

EE 523Estimation and Detection

4

VLSI Physical Design Automation Track

ECE 516Integrated Circuit (IC) Technologies

4

ECE 528VLSI Computer-Aided Design

4

ECE 529CAD for ULSI and Emerging Technologies

4

ECE 583Low Power Digital IC Design

4