ECE
Graduate
Programs

Photograph of Nimal Lobo and Hong Sun Lim

Bradley Fellow Parrish Ralston discusses soft-switching efficiency with Professor Jason Lai. Ralston is characterizing 5th generation transistors for the FreedomCAR project.


Fall 2008 textbook list


The Fall 2008 ECE textbook list is available online for students.


Graduate Advising Contacts


Assistant Department Head for Graduate Education and Chair, Graduate Committee
William Tranter


Director, Extended Campus and Vice Chair, Graduate Committee
Joseph Tront


ECE Graduate Counselor
vt.edu email: vt.ece.gradadv


ECE Graduate Admissions
vt.edu email: vt.ece.gradadm


CPE Admission Officer
Lynn Abbott


EE Admission Officer
R. Michael Buehrer


Degree Offerings


ECE offers masters and PH.D. degree programs in electrical (EE) and computer engineering (CPE). The Ph.D. and M.S. degrees are research-based and the M.Eng. is project- based.


ECE also offers IT graduate certificates in communications, networking, and computer engineering.


See Degree Programs.

See Extended campus.


ECE Worldwide


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ECE offers graduate study at the main campus in Blacksburg, plus at locations throughout Virginia and in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt. See Extended campus for more information.


IEEE Professional Resources



ECE adheres to and supports the Code of Ethics developed by the IEEE Professional Society.


We encourage all graduate students to learn and follow the IEEE publication format and referencing standards found in the Style Manual. See also the IEEE Author Digital Toolbox and the the IEEE Publishing Tools and Policies.


Events



Thursday, October 9, 2008

Congressman Rick Boucher to visit ECE!

11:00 AM 2150 Torgersen
Congressman Rick Boucher will speak on "Wireless Policy at the Federal Level."
Contact: tbose@vt.edu


Friday, October 17, 2008

Invited Talk: Predictable Programming on a Precision Timed Architecture

10:00 AM Durham Hall 330
Dr. Hiren D. Patel finished his PhD in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech in May 2007, and since then has been a post doctoral fellow at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of California at Berkeley. He is working in the Ptolemy Group. In this talk, he will discuss about his work on Precision Timed Architecture at Berkeley. Details.
Contact: shukla@vt.edu


Friday, November 14, 2008

Research Topics in Network Security

4:00 PM 300 Whittemore Hall
Graduate Seminar -- Speaker: Dr. Jung Min Park, ECE Details.
Contact: randem@vt.edu


Friday, November 21, 2008

Satellite Remote Sensing of the Earth's Upper Atmosphere

4:00 PM 300 Whittemore Hall
Graduate seminar -- Speaker: Dr. Scott Bailey, ECE Details.
Contact: randem@vt.edu