Graduate Programs

The Electrical Engineering (EE) Ph.D. program prepares students for careers in research or academia with specializations including Communications, Digital Signal Processing/Image Processing, Controls and Robotics, Electromagnetics, Electro-Optics, Photonics, Power Electronics and Electronics, and Solid-State/Microelectronics. Orlando, one of the nation’s most dynamic metropolitan areas and noted for its quality of life and vacation attractions, is the center of Florida’s I-4 High Technology Corridor. The UCF campus is adjacent to University of Central Florida Research Park, which is one of the nation’s most successful technology parks. UCF and its Research Park offer educational, research and career opportunities in a vast number of electrical engineering careers, including electronics, energy networks, power electronics, optics, lasers, solid state, microelectronics, control, communications and much more.

Research interests of the Electrical Engineering faculty include antennas, microwave and millimeter circuits/devices, communication systems, digital signal/image processing, power electronics, electronic circuits, IFF devices, electromagnetic theory, radar and microwave remote sensing, speech processing, VLSI design, spread spectrum systems, SAW and ACT devices, spectral estimation, solid state device modeling and computer-aided design (CAD) techniques, communication networks, integrated services digital networks, neural networks, systems and controls, robotics, robust control, computer control, microelectronics, semiconductors, thin films, power system stability, bipolar device modeling, solid state lasers, optical propagation, fiber optics, optical signal processing, laser-induced damage, optical testing, diffractive optics, phase conjunction, infrared detectors, Fourier optics, lens design, and nonlinear optics. The specific research that each of the faculty conduct can be found at the Department of ECE website.