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2015-2016 University Catalog 
    
2015-2016 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Graduate)


Website URL:

https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/Academics/Graduates

Department/School Head:

Venkataramanan (Ragu) Balakrishnan

Admission Requirements:

Purdue Graduate School International Applicant Requirements

  • TOEFL for Non-Native English Speakers:
    Minimum Paper-Based Test (PBT) Score Required: 550
    Minimum Internet-Based Test (IBT) Overall Score Required: 77
    With the following minimum section requirements:
  • Reading: 19
  • Listening: 14
  • Speaking: 18
  • Writing: 18
  • IELTS (Academic Module):
    An alternative to the TOEFL, scores of 6.5 or higher will be accepted
  • Pearson Test of English (PTE) (Academic Module):
    An alternative to the TOEFL, scores of 58 or higher will be accepted
  • TWE for Non-Native English Speakers
    Not required, but recommended
  • Or New IELTS

Electrical and Computer Engineering International Applicant Requirements

  • Besides satisfying the Graduate School minimum scores, the ECE requirement for the TOEFL Writing Score 22 for admission. However, ECE will make an exception to the required TOEFL Writing score of 22 for exceptional PhD applicants with financial support, and consider them for conditional admission.
  • Please note - to be considered for a teaching assistantship you must submit the IBT TOEFL Speaking score of 23.

Master’s Degree Program Basic Requirements

  • Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average:
    3.25 or equivalent required
  • Graduate Record Examination (GRE): Required
    - average scores of successful applicants are:
    • Analytical Writing: 4.0
    • Quantitative: 164
    • Verbal: 154

Doctoral Degree Program Basic Requirements

  • Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average:
    3.25 or equivalent required
  • Master’s Degree Completion:
    Required, with a grade point average of 3.3 or equivalent, or superior performance in a bachelor’s program
  • Graduate Record Examination (GRE): Required
    - average scores of successful applicants are:
    • Analytical Writing: 4.0 
    • Quantitative: 164
    • Verbal: 154

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

  • Masters and PhD graduate programs

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Muhammad Ashraful Alam
Jan P. Allebach
Joerg Appenzeller
Saurabh Baqchi
V. Balakrishnan
Mark R. Bell
Charles A. Bouman
Michael A. Capano
James A. Cooper
Supriyo Datta
Raymond A. Decarlo
Edward J. Delp
David S. Ebert
Rudolf Eigenmann
Daniel S. Elliott
Okan K. Ersoy
Eric S. Furgason
Saul B. Gelfand
Arif Ghafoor
Y. Charlie Hu
Leah H. Jamieson
David B. Janes
Dan Jiao
Avinash C. Kak
Gerhard Klimeck
Cheng-Kok Koh
James V. Krogmeier
C-S George Lee
James S. Lehnert
David J. Love
Mark S. Lundstrom
Michael Manfra
Michael R. Melloch
David G. Meyer
Samuel P. Midkiff
Evgenii Narimanov
John A. Nyenhuis
Chee-Mun Ong
Steven D. Pekarek
Dimitrios Peroulis
Irth Pomeranz
Amy Reibman
Anand Raghunathan
Amy Reibman
Kaushik Roy
Ali Shakouri
Vladimir M. Shalaev
M.J.T. Smith
Scott D. Sudhoff
Thomas M. Talavage
Hong Z. Tan
T. N. Vijaykumar
Oleg Wasynczuk
Kevin J. Webb
Andrew M. Weiner
George R. Wodicka
Peide Ye
Stanislaw H. Zak
Babak Ziaie
Michael D. Zoltowski

Associate Professor

Dionysios Aliprantis
Sunil A. Bhave
Alexandra Boltasseva
Mireille Boutin
Yong Chen
Zhihong Chen
Mary Comer
Robert L. Givan
Jeffery L. Gray
Jianghai Hu
Pedro Irazoqui
Brent Jesiek
Byunghoo Jung
Alex Kildishev
Milind Kulkarni
Xiaojun Lin
Yung-Hsiang Lu
Saeed Mohammadi
Minghao Qi
Vijay Raghunathan
Sanjay Rao
Jeffrey M. Siskind
Mithuna S. Thottethodi
Chih-Chun Wang

Assistant Professor

Peter Bermel
Stanley Ho Chan
Meng Cui
Aly El Gamal
Zubin Jacob
Tongcang Li
Felix Xiaozhu Lin
Zhongming Liu
Nicolo Michelusi
Dallas Morisette
Johnny Park
Alexander Quinn
Timothy Rogers
Shreyas Sen
Shreyas Sundaram
Yiying Zhang
Fengging Maggie Zhu

Emeritus Faculty

Chin-Lin Chen
Keinosuke Fukunaga
Robert L. Gunshor
Rangasami L. Kashyap
Antti J. Koivo
David A. Landgrebe
Pen-Min Lin
John C. Lindenlaub
Lawrence L. Ogborn
Robert F. Pierret
Richard J. Schwartz
Leroy Silva
Philip H. Swain
Hannis W. Thompson

Programs

    DoctoralMaster’sGraduate Certificate