Electrical Engineering – Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering

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Electrical Engineering-Systems
Hughes Aircraft Electrical
Engineering Center 100
(213) 740-4446
FAX: (213) 740-4449
Email: studentinfo@ee.usc.edu
Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics
Powell Hall of Information Sciences and Engineering 604
(213) 740-7874
FAX: (213) 740-8677
Email: eepdept@usc.edu

Co-Chairs: Sandeep Gupta, PhD (Systems); Eun Sok Kim, PhD (Electrophysics)

Associate Chair (Systems): Keith M. Chugg, PhD

Associate Chair (Curriculum and Student Services): Edward W. Maby, PhD

Faculty

Presidential Chair: Andrew J. Viterbi, PhD

A.V. “Bal” Balakrishnan Chair: Petros Ioannou, PhD

Kenneth C. Dahlberg Early Career Chair: Rahul Jain, PhD

Lloyd F. Hunt Chair in Electrical Power Engineering: Martin Gundersen, PhD

William M. Keck Chair in Engineering: P. Daniel Dapkus, PhD

Robert G. and Mary G. Lane Early Career Chair: Murali Annavaram, PhD

Fred W. O’Green Chair in Engineering: Leonard M. Silverman, PhD

Robert C. Packard President’s Chair and Malcolm R. Currie Chair in Technology and the Humanities: C. L. Max Nikias, PhD

Colleen and Roberto Padovani Early Career Chair in Electrical Engineering: Mike Chen, PhD

George T. Pfleger Chair in Electrical Engineering: Robert W. Hellwarth, PhD

Charles Lee Powell Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science: Melvin Breuer, PhD

Charles Lee Powell Chair in Engineering: Viktor Prasanna, PhD

Steven and Kathryn Sample Chair in Engineering: Alan E. Willner, PhD

Leonard Silverman Chair: Alexander A. Sawchuk, PhD

Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair: Maryam M. Shanechi, PhD

WISE Junior Gabilan Chair: Michelle Povinelli, PhD

Fred H. Cole Professorship in Engineering: Robert A. Scholtz, PhD

Dean’s Professor in Electrical Engineering: Chung-Chieh Kuo, PhD

Dean’s Professor in Electrical Engineering: Urbashi Mitra, PhD

Stephen and Etta Varra Professor: Massoud Pedram, PhD

Viterbi Professor in Engineering: Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan, PhD

Ming Hsieh Faculty Fellow in Electrical Engineering: Hossein Hashemi, PhD

Ming Hsieh Faculty Fellow in Electrical Engineering: Bhaskar Krishnamachari, PhD

Professors: Melvin Breuer, PhD* (Computer Science); Todd Brun, PhD (Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy); Keith M. Chugg, PhD; Stephen B. Cronin, PhD; P. Daniel Dapkus, PhD (Materials Science); Michel Dubois, PhD; Martin Gundersen, PhD (Materials Science, Physics); Sandeep Gupta, PhD; Robert W. Hellwarth, PhD (Physics); Hossein Hashemi, PhD; Kai Hwang, PhD (Computer Science); Petros Ioannou, PhD (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering); B. Keith Jenkins, PhD; Edmond Jonckheere, PhD (Mathematics); Eun Sok Kim, PhD; Bart Kosko, PhD (Law); Bhaskar Krishnamachari, PhD (Computer Science); Chung-Chieh Kuo, PhD (Computer Science); Richard Leahy, PhD* (Biomedical Engineering, Radiology); Anthony F. J. Levi, PhD (Physics); Daniel Lidar, PhD (Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy); William C. Lindsey, PhD; Jerry M. Mendel, PhD; Urbashi Mitra, PhD (Computer Science); Mahta Moghaddam, PhD; Andreas Molisch, PhD; Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan, PhD (Computer Science, Linguistics, Pediatrics, Psychology); Krishna Nayak, PhD (Biomedical Engineering, Pediatrics, Radiology); C. L. Max Nikias, PhD; John O’Brien, PhD; Antonio Ortega, PhD; Alice C. Parker, PhD*; Massoud Pedram, PhD; Timothy Pinkston, PhD; Viktor Prasanna, PhD (Computer Science); C. Raghavendra, PhD (Computer Science); Simon Ramo, PhD; Steven B. Sample, PhD; Alexander A. Sawchuk, PhD*; Robert A. Scholtz, PhD; Leonard Silverman, PhD; John Silvester, PhD; John B. Slaughter, PhD (Education); Armand R. Tanguay Jr., PhD (Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science); Andrew J. Viterbi, PhD; Alan E. Willner, PhD*; Chongwu Zhou, PhD

Associate Professors: Murali Annavaram, PhD (Computer Science); Salman Avestimehr, PhD; Peter Beerel, PhD; Rahul Jain, PhD (Computer Science, Industrial and Systems Engineering); Christos Kyriakakis, PhD; Michael Neely, PhD; Michelle Povinelli, PhD; Aluizio Prata Jr., PhD*; Konstantinos Psounis, PhD (Computer Science); Benjamin W. Reichardt, PhD (Computer Science); Wei Wu, PhD

Assistant Professors: Paul Bogdan, PhD; Michael Shuo-Wei Chen, PhD; Dina El-Damak, PhD; Panayiotis Georgiou, PhD (Computer Science); Justin Haldar, PhD (Biomedical Engineering); Rehan Kapadia, PhD; Ashutosh Nayyar, PhD;  Pierluigi Nuzzo, PhD; Xuehai Qian, PhD (Computer Science); Maryam M. Shanechi, PhD; Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, PhD; Han Wang, PhD; Insoon Yang, PhD

Adjunct Professors: Giuseppe Caire, PhD; Dan Goebel, PhD; P. Vijay Kumar, PhD; Patric Muggli, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professors: Serge Dubovitsky, PhD; Alexandros Potamianos, PhD; P. Thomas Vernier, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor: Bindu Madhavan, PhD

Adjunct Research Assistant Professor: Matthew P. Black, PhD

Research Professor: Willie Ng, PhD

Research Associate Professors: Stephen Crago, PhD; Jeffrey Draper, PhD

Research Assistant Professors: Anand Joshi, PhD; Sungbok Lee, PhD; Federico Spedalieri, PhD; John Stang, PhD; Alireza Tabatabaeenejad, PhD

Professors of Engineering Practice: Mary Eshaghian-Wilner, PhD; Edward W. Maby, PhD; Gandhi Puvvada, MS*

Associate Professors of Engineering Practice: Mohammed Beshir, PhD; Shahin Nazarian, PhD; Mark Redekopp, MS*

Senior Lecturer: Douglas Burke, PhD

Lecturer: Ali Zahid, PhD

Emeritus Professors: Alvin Despain, PhD; Hans H. Kuehl, PhD*; Michael J. Safonov, PhD; William H. Steier, PhD; Lloyd Welch, PhD (Mathematics)

Emeritus Instructor: Sidney A. Wielin, BS

Research Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering: Sanjit Mitra, PhD

Joint Faculty

Joint Professors: Stanley P. Azen, PhD (Preventive Medicine and Biomedical Engineering); Jack Feinberg, PhD (Physics); Leana Golubchik, PhD (Computer Science); Ramesh Govindan, PhD (Computer Science); Norberto Grzywacz, PhD (Biomedical Engineering); Ellis Horowitz, PhD (Computer Science); Gerard Medioni, PhD (Computer Science); Ellis Meng, PhD (Biomedical Engineering); Ulrich Neumann, PhD (Computer Science); Ramakant Nevatia, PhD (Computer Science); Si-Zhao Qin, PhD (Chemical Engineering); Suvrajeet Sen, PhD (Industrial and Systems Engineering); Cyrus Shahabi, PhD (Computer Science); Gaurav Sukhatme, PhD (Computer Science); Paul Thompson, PhD (Ophthalmology); Arthur Toga, PhD (Ophthamology); William G. Wagner, PhD (Physics); Curt F. Wittig, PhD (Chemistry, Physics); Stanley M. Yamashiro, PhD (Biomedical Engineering)

Joint Associate Professors: Andrea M. Armani, PhD (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science); Behnam Jafarpour, PhD (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science); Jia Grace Lu, PhD, (Physics); Yan Liu, PhD (Computer Science); Elahe Nezami, PhD (Preventative Medicine); John Van Horn, PhD (Neurology)

Joint Assistant Professors: Ketan Savla, PhD (Civil, Environmental Engineering); Yonggang Shi, PhD (Neurology); Jongseung Yoon, PhD (Chemical Engineering, Materials Science)

Joint Research Professor: Fred Aminzadeh, PhD (Chemical Engineering, Materials Science)

Joint Research Associate Professor: Joseph Touch, PhD (Computer Science)

Joint Research Assistant Professor: Young Cho, PhD (Computer Science)

Joint Emeritus Professors: Michael Arbib, PhD (Computer Science, Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering); George A. Bekey, PhD (Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering); Aristides Requicha, PhD (Computer Science)

*Recipient of university-wide or school teaching award.

Electrical Engineering Honor Society: Eta Kappa Nu

Degree Requirements

Undergraduate Program Educational Objectives

The electrical engineering program objectives are designed to promote technical competence, professional development and citizenship in the global community. Graduates of the undergraduate program in electrical engineering are expected to attain the following objectives within a few years of graduation:

Technical Competence

Graduates will apply their technical skills in mathematics, science and engineering to the solution of complex problems encountered in modern electrical engineering practice.

Graduates will model, analyze, design and experimentally evaluate components or systems that achieve desired technical specifications subject to the reality of economic constraints.

Professional Development

Graduates will compete effectively in a world of rapid technological change and assume leadership roles within industrial, entrepreneurial, academic or governmental environments in the broad context of electrical engineering.

Some graduates who choose to redirect their careers will be employed in diverse fields such as healthcare, business, law, computer science, multimedia and music through graduate-level studies and the process of lifelong learning.

Citizenship in the Global Community

Graduates will have established the foundations for critical thinking that are needed to broaden or redirect their careers in diverse disciplines such as business, health care and the arts through graduate-level studies and/or the process of life-long leaning.

Graduates will adhere to highly ethical practices, and they will make exemplary engineering decisions that balance economic, environmental and societal factors for the betterment of the global community.

Undergraduate Program Criteria

The program leading to a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering provides both breadth and depth across the range of engineering topics implied by the title. The curriculum includes probability and statistics, including appropriate applications; mathematics through differential and integral calculus, and advanced mathematics, such as differential equations, linear algebra, complex variables and discrete mathematics; sciences (defined as biological, chemical or physical science); and engineering topics (including computing science) necessary to analyze and design complex electrical and electronic devices, software and systems containing hardware and software components.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and Computer Science

See the listing under Computer Engineering Program .

Minor in Music Recording

A minor in music recording is offered through the USC Thornton School of Music to provide undergraduate students with the background necessary to enter the field of recording engineering and to familiarize them with the design needs of modern recording equipment. The minor is recommended to electrical engineering majors with extensive musical training who would like to combine their technical and musical abilities while learning the engineering applications of physical and mathematical principles to the art of music recording. See the listing under the USC Thornton School of Music .

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (Electric Power)

See listing in the Sustainable Infrastructure Systems Program  section.

Master of Science in Systems Architecting and Engineering

See the listing under Systems Architecting and Engineering Program .

Financial Engineering

Electrical Engineering Building 100
(213) 740-4447
FAX: (213) 740-4449
Email: studentinfo@ee.usc.edu
Faculty Contact: Professor Petros Ioannou, ioannou@usc.edu

Second Master’s Degree

A graduate student who already holds a master’s degree from USC may apply up to 4 units toward a second master’s degree with the permission of the chair of the major department. All credit, including the transferred units, must be earned within seven calendar years.

For students who earned their first master’s degree at another institution, no course work may be repeated from the first program of study and no unit credit from the first program of study may be counted toward the second master’s degree.

Engineer in Electrical Engineering

Requirements for the Engineer in Electrical Engineering are the same as those listed under Engineer degree, except that both areas of concentration must be in electrical engineering.

Programs

Bachelor’s Degree

• •  Electrical Engineering (BS)

Master’s Degree

• •  Electrical Engineering (Computer Networks) (MS)
• •  Electrical Engineering (MS)
• •  Electrical Engineering (Multimedia and Creative Technologies) (MS)
• •  Electrical Engineering (VLSI Design) (MS)
• •  Electrical Engineering (Wireless Health Technology) (MS)
• •  Electrical Engineering (Wireless Networks) (MS)
• •  Financial Engineering (MS)

Dual Degree

• •  Electrical Engineering/Engineering Management (MS)

Doctoral Degree

• •  Electrical Engineering (PhD)

Courses

Electrical Engineering

• •  EE 536a Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuit Design
• •  EE 536b Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuit Design
• •  EE 537 Modern Solid-State Devices
• •  EE 539 Engineering Quantum Mechanics
• •  EE 540 Introduction to Quantum Electronics
• •  EE 541 Radio Frequency Filter Design
• •  EE 542 Internet and Cloud Computing
• •  EE 543aL Digital Control Systems
• •  EE 543bL Digital Control Systems
• •  EE 544 Radio Frequency Systems and Hardware
• •  EE 545 Robotics
• •  EE 546 Intelligent Embedded Systems
• •  EE 547 Sensing and Planning in Robotics
• •  EE 548 Analytical Methods in Robotics
• •  EE 550 Design and Analysis of Computer Communication Networks
• •  EE 551 Principles of Radar
• •  EE 552 Asynchronous VLSI Design
• •  EE 553 Computational Solution of Optimization Problems
• •  EE 554 Real Time Computer Systems
• •  EE 555 Broadband Network Architectures
• •  EE 556 Stochastic Systems
• •  EE 557 Computer Systems Architecture
• •  EE 558 Optical Fiber Communication Systems
• •  EE 559 Mathematical Pattern Recognition
• •  EE 560L Digital System Design
• •  EE 561 Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
• •  EE 562 Random Processes in Engineering
• •  EE 563 Estimation Theory
• •  EE 564 Digital Communication and Coding Systems
• •  EE 565 Information Theory and Compression
• •  EE 566 Optical Information Processing
• •  EE 567 Communication Systems
• •  EE 569 Introduction to Digital Image Processing
• •  EE 570a Advanced Electromagnetic Theory
• •  EE 570b Advanced Electromagnetic Theory
• •  EE 571a Microwave Networks
• •  EE 571b Microwave Networks
• •  EE 572a Plasma Dynamics
• •  EE 572b Plasma Dynamics
• •  EE 573a Antenna Analysis
• •  EE 573b Antenna Analysis
• •  EE 574 Computer Vision
• •  EE 575 Computational Differential Geometry for Engineers
• •  EE 576 Integrated Memory Devices and Technologies
• •  EE 577a VLSI System Design
• •  EE 577b VLSI System Design
• •  EE 578 Reflector Antennas
• •  EE 579 Wireless and Mobile Networks Design and Laboratory
• •  EE 581 Mathematical Foundations for Computer-Aided Design of VLSI Circuits
• •  EE 583 Statistical Signal Processing
• •  EE 584 Chaotic Systems
• •  EE 585 Linear System Theory
• •  EE 586 L Advanced DSP Design Laboratory
• •  EE 587 Nonlinear and Adaptive Control
• •  EE 588 Optimization for the Information and Data Sciences
• •  EE 590 Directed Research
• •  EE 591 Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Reconstruction
• •  EE 592 Computational Methods for Inverse Problems
• •  EE 593 Robust Multivariable Control
• •  EE 594a Master’s Thesis
• •  EE 594b Master’s Thesis
• •  EE 594z Master’s Thesis
• •  EE 596 Wavelets
• •  EE 597 Wireless Networks
• •  EE 598 Electrical Engineering Research Seminar
• •  EE 599 Special Topics
• •  EE 601 Advanced Semiconductor Device Physics
• •  EE 606 Nonequilibrium Processes in Semiconductors
• •  EE 607 Microelectromechanical Systems
• •  EE 608 L Microelectromechanical Systems Laboratory
• •  EE 612 Science and Practice of Nanotechnology
• •  EE 619 Advanced Topics in Automatic Speech Recognition
• •  EE 620 Advanced Topics in Applied Stochastic Models
• •  EE 632 Integrated Communication Systems
• •  EE 635 Advanced Wireless Communications
• •  EE 642 Advanced Geometrical Optics
• •  EE 645 Uncertainty Modeling and Stochastic Optimization
• •  EE 648 Network Economics and Games
• •  EE 649 Stochastic Network Optimization
• •  EE 650 Advanced Topics in Computer Networks
• •  EE 652 Low-Power Wireless Networks
• •  EE 653 Advanced Topics in Microarchitecture
• •  EE 657 Parallel and Distributed Computing
• •  EE 658 Diagnosis and Design of Reliable Digital Systems
• •  EE 659 Interconnection Networks
• •  EE 660 Machine Learning from Signals: Foundations and Methods
• •  EE 664 Advanced Topics in Communication Theory
• •  EE 665 Advanced Topics in Information Theory
• •  EE 667 Array Signal Processing
• •  EE 669 Multimedia Data Compression
• •  EE 674a Advanced Topics in Computer Vision
• •  EE 674b Advanced Topics in Computer Vision
• •  EE 677 VLSI Architectures and Algorithms
• •  EE 680 Computer-Aided Design of Digital Systems I
• •  EE 681 Computer-Aided Design of Digital Systems II
• •  EE 682 Law and Intellectual Property for Engineers
• •  EE 690 Directed Research
• •  EE 790 Research
• •  EE 794a Doctoral Dissertation
• •  EE 794b Doctoral Dissertation