Nov 26, 2024

USC Catalogue 2018-2019

USC Catalogue 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Electrical Engineering – Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering

Return to: USC Viterbi School of Engineering

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: Richard Leahy, PhD* (Systems); Anthony F. Levi, 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

Solomon Golomb - Andrew and Erna Viterbi Chair: Andreas Molisch, 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: Han Wang, PhD

Gordon S. Marshall Chair in Engineering: Urbashi Mitra, PhD

Niki and Max Nikias Chair in Engineering: Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan, 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 Engineering: Viktor Prasanna, PhD

Charles Lee Powell Chair in Engineering and Computer Science: Massoud Pedram, 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

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

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

Dean’s Professor of Electrical Engineering: Richard Leahy, PhD*

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

Dean’s Professor in Electrical Engineering: Alice C. Parker, PhD*

Distinguished Professor: Chung-Chieh Kuo, PhD

Louise L. Dunn Endowed Professorship in Engineering: Timothy Pinkston, PhD

William M. Hogue Professorship in Electrical Engineering: Mahta Moghaddam, PhD

Provost Professor of Opthamology and Electrical Engineering: Gianluca Lazzi, PhD

Stephen and Etta Varra Professor: Massoud Pedram, PhD

Viterbi Professorship in Engineering: Daniel Lidar, PhD

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

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

Professors: Murali Annavaram, PhD (Computer Science), Peter Beerel, PhD, Todd Brun, PhD (Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy); Keith M. Chugg, PhD; Stephen B. Cronin, PhD (Physics); 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); Mihailo Jovanovic, PhD; Eun Sok Kim, PhD; Bart Kosko, PhD (Law); Bhaskar Krishnamachari, PhD (Computer Science); Chung-Chieh Kuo, PhD (Computer Science); Gianluca Lazzi, PhD (Ophthamology); Richard Leahy, PhD* (Biomedical Engineering, Radiology); Anthony F. J. Levi, PhD (Physics); Daniel Lidar, PhD (Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy); William C. Lindsey, 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; Antonio Ortega, PhD; Alice C. Parker, PhD*; Massoud Pedram, PhD; Timothy Pinkston, PhD; Viktor Prasanna, PhD (Computer Science); Konstantinos Psounis, PhD (Computer Science); C. Raghavendra, PhD (Computer Science); 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, Physics); Andrew J. Viterbi, PhD; Alan E. Willner, PhD*; Chongwu Zhou, PhD

Associate Professors: Salman Avestimehr, PhD; Michael Shuo-Wei Chen, PhD; Rahul Jain, PhD (Computer Science, Industrial and Systems Engineering); Christos Kyriakakis, PhD; Michael Neely, PhD; Michelle Povinelli, PhD; Aluizio Prata Jr., PhD*; Benjamin W. Reichardt, PhD (Computer Science); Wei Wu, PhD

Assistant Professors: Paul Bogdan, 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 (Computer Science); Han Wang, PhD; Insoon Yang, PhD

Adjunct Professors: Giuseppe Caire, PhD; Dan Goebel, PhD; Murali Kota, PhD; P. Vijay Kumar, PhD

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

Adjunct Assistant Professor: Bindu Madhavan, PhD

Adjunct Research Professors: Willie Ng, PhD; Dmitry Starodubov, PhD

Research Associate Professor: Stephen Crago, PhD

Research Assistant Professors: Anand Joshi, PhD; Federico Spedalieri, PhD; John Stang, PhD; Alireza Tabatabaeenejad, PhD; Asterios Toutios, PhD

Professors of Engineering Practice: Mohammed Beshir, PhD; Edward W. Maby, PhD; Gandhi Puvvada, MS*, Mark Redekopp, MS (Computer Science)*

Associate Professor of Engineering Practice: Shahin Nazarian, PhD

Senior Lecturer: Douglas Burke, PhD

Lecturer: Ali Zahid, PhD

Emeritus Professors: 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); 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.

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)

Minor

• Internet of Things Engineering Minor

Master’s Degree

Doctoral Degree

• Electrical Engineering (PhD)

Courses

Electrical Engineering

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