2018-2019 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Electrical Engineering
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Professor Dinesh Rajan, Chair
Professors: Jerome K. Butler, Marc P. Christensen, Scott C. Douglas, Gary A. Evans, Ping Gui, Duncan L. MacFarlane, Panos E. Papamichalis, Behrouz Peikari, Dinesh Rajan, Ron Rohrer
Associate Professors: Joseph D. Camp, Carlos E. Davila, James G. Dunham, Choon S. Lee, Jianhui Wang
Assistant Professors: Mohammad Khodayar, Dario J. Villarreal Suarez
Senior Lecturer: M. Scott Kingsley
Adjunct Faculty: Sudipto Chakraborty, Joseph R. Cleveland, John Fattaruso, Hossam H. H’mimy, Clark D. Kinnaird, Kamakshi Sridhar
General Information
The Electrical Engineering Department is housed in the Jerry R. Junkins Engineering Building. The building contains teaching classrooms and laboratories, as well as space for faculty offices and the EE department staff and operations.
Antenna Lab. This laboratory consists of two facilities for fabrication and testing. Most of the antennas fabricated at the SMU antenna lab are microstrip antennas. Antennas are made with milling machines. Fabricated antennas are characterized with a network analyzer. Workstations are available for antenna design and simulation with COMSOL and HFSS. Radiation characteristics are measured at the SMU Antenna Characterization Lab in the SMU East campus, where the frequency ranges from 500 MHz to 40 GHz.
Biomedical Engineering Laboratory. This laboratory contains instrumentation for carrying out research in electrophysiology and psychophysics. Four Grass physiographs permit the measurement of electro-encephalograms as well as visual and auditory evoked brain potentials. The lab also contains a state-of-the-art dual Purkinje eye tracker and image stabilizer made by Fourward Technologies Inc., a Vision Research Graphics 21-inch Digital Multisync Monitor for displaying visual stimuli, and a Cambridge Research Systems visual stimulus generator capable of generating a variety of stimuli for use in psychophysical and electro-physiological experiments. Several PCs are also available for instrumentation control and data acquisition.
Circuit Fabrication Laboratory. This lab is fully equipped with modern fabrication tools to design and fabricate multi-layer circuit boards of various sizes, complexity, and design rules, ideally suited for RF and microwave applications. An automated circuit board plotter produces PCB prototypes from CAD files, for both rigid and flexible substrates. An integrated through-hole electroplating system yields reliable copper layers on the surfaces of all existing vias, including multilayer boards. The boards are passed through six cascaded baths that are integrated in a safe enclosed benchtop system. Multi-layer boards are fabricated using a benchtop multi-layer hydraulic press to aid in bonding the layers together. The lab also includes an automated de-solder/solder tool for surface mount components, and supporting instruments such as oscilloscopes, multi-meters, and microscopes.
Integrated Circuits and Systems Laboratory. This facility has state-of-the-art design tools and equipment to conduct design, simulations, and measurements of integrated circuits and systems. The tools, facility and equipment include electronic design automation (EDA) tools such as Cadence, ADS, Synopsys, HFSS, and Xilinx software; IC measurement equipment including a high-speed sampling oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, RF signal sources and a network analyzer. The SMU high-performance computer cluster is used for mixed-signal simulations.
Multimedia Systems Laboratory. This facility includes an acoustic chamber with adjoining recording studio to allow high-quality sound recordings to be made. The chamber is sound isolating with double- or triple-wall sheet rock on all four sides, as well as an isolating ceiling barrier above the drop ceiling. The walls of the chamber have been constructed to be nonparallel to avoid flutter echo and dominant frequency modes. Acoustic paneling on the walls of the chamber are removable and allow the acoustic reverberation time to be adjusted to simulate different room acoustics. The control room next to the acoustic chamber includes a large, 4-by-8-foot acoustic window and an inert acoustic door facing the acoustic chamber. Up to 16 channels of audio can be carried in or out of the chamber to the control room. Experiments to be conducted in the Multimedia Systems Laboratory include blind source separation, deconvolution and dereverberation. Several of the undergraduate courses in electrical engineering use sound and music to motivate system-level design and signal processing applications. The Multimedia Systems Laboratory can be used in these activities to develop data sets for use in classroom experiments and laboratory projects for students to complete.
Photonic Architectures Laboratory. This laboratory is a fully equipped optomechanical prototyping facility, supporting the activities of faculty and graduate students in experimental and analytical tasks. The lab is ideally suited for the prototyping, integration and testing of optical devices and systems. It includes infrastructure for imaging at microscopic and macroscopic scales. The lab has five optical tables three of which include vibration isolation. It also contains an assortment of light sources, both coherent and incoherent sources, at visible and infrared wavelengths. Devices for patterning light including Spatial Light Modulators, deformable mirror and pattern projectors. The lab also includes an assortment of detectors ranging from single pixel area detectors to focal plane arrays (FPA) at visible and infrared wavelengths. The lab additionally contains lock-in FPA’s and Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors featuring support for per-pixel homodyne detection. The lab also hosts a variety of measurement equipment including a wavefront sensor and a surface profilometer. A vast array of manual and motorized optomechanical components are also available. Support electronics hardware includes various test instrumentation, such as arbitrary waveform generators, and a variety of CAD tools for optical and electronic design, including optical ray trace and finite difference time domain software.
Photonic Characterization Laboratory. This laboratory is dedicated to characterizing the optical and electrical properties of photonic devices. Equipment in this laboratory program includes optical spectrum analyzers, optical multimeters, visible and infrared cameras, an automated laser characterization system for edge-emitting lasers, a manual probe test system for surface-emitting lasers, a manual probe test system for edge-emitting laser die and bars, and near- and far-field measurement systems.
Photonics Devices and Systems Laboratory. The PDSL houses a wealth of resources for developing and applying photonic components, devices and systems, including optics, mounting hardware, optical tables, design software, electronic instrumentation and fabrication equipment. Examples of ongoing research areas include communications and instrumentation, particularly for biomedical applications.
Photonics Simulation Laboratory. This laboratory has developed and continuously updates software for modeling and designing semiconductor lasers, optical waveguides, optical fibers, couplers, switches and optical waveguide isolators. These programs include:
- WAVEGUIDE: Calculates near-field, far-field and effective indices of dielectric waveguides and semiconductor lasers. Each layer can contain gain or loss.
- GAIN: Calculates the gain as a function of energy, carrier density and current density for strained and unstrained quantum wells for a variety of material systems.
- GRATING: Uses the Floquet Bloch approach and the boundary element method to calculate reflection, transmission and outcoupling of dielectric waveguides and laser structures with periodic layers or interfaces.
- FIBER: Calculates the fields, effective index, group velocity and dispersion for fibers with circularly symmetric index of refraction profiles.
- WAVEGUIDEISOLATOR: Calculates the bi-directional propagation constants in optical waveguides with ferromagnetic layers for the design, fabrication and analysis of integrated waveguide isolators.
Semiconductor Processing Cleanroom. The 2,800 square-foot cleanroom, consisting of a 2,400 square-foot, Class 10,000 room and a Class 1,000 lithography area of 400 square feet, is located in the Jerry R. Junkins Engineering Building. A partial list of equipment in this laboratory includes acid and solvent hoods, photoresist spinners, two contact mask aligners, a thermal evaporator, a plasma asher, a plasma etcher, a turbo-pumped methane hydrogen reactive ion etcher, a four-target sputtering system, a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition reactor, a diffusion-pumped four pocket e-beam evaporator, an ellipsometer and profilometers. Other equipment includes a boron-trichloride reactive ion etcher, a chemical-assisted ion-beam etcher, a four-tube diffusion furnace, numerous optical microscopes and a scanning electron microscope. The cleanroom is capable of processing silicon, compound (III-V) semiconductors and piezo-electric materials for microelectronic, photonic and nanotechnology devices.
Submicron Grating Laboratory. This laboratory is dedicated to holographic grating fabrication and has the capability of sub 10th-micron lines and spaces. Equipment in this laboratory includes a floating air table, a 266 nm UV laser, and an Atomic Force Microscope. This laboratory is used to make photonic devices with periodic features such as distributed feedback, distributed Bragg reflector, and grating-outcoupled and photonic crystal semiconductor lasers along with grating couplers and silicon photonic devices. Measurements of radiation patterns of millimeter wave gratings can be evaluated in the W band.
Wireless Systems Laboratory. This laboratory contains an array of infrastructure for experimentation across a number of wireless frequency bands, platforms and environments for research and instruction in lab-based courses on wireless communications and networking. The infrastructure includes 1) state-of-the-art test equipment for repeatability, control and observability of wireless channels, including complex channel emulators, fixed and mobile spectrum analyzers, wide-band oscilloscopes, and signal generators; 2) a wide range of reprogrammable wireless testbeds that operate from 400 MHz to 6 GHz for IEEE 802.11, cellular, and Bluetooth network and protocol development; and 3) diverse mobile phones and tablets that enable participatory sensing, context-aware applications and large-scale deployment in the field. The in-lab infrastructure is also enhanced by multiple outdoor antennas deployed on campus buildings and buses for understanding real wireless channels.
The discipline of electrical engineering is at the core of today’s technology-driven society. Personal computers, computer-communications networks, integrated circuits, optical technologies, digital signal processors and wireless communications systems have revolutionized the way people live and work, and extraordinary advances in these fields are announced every day. Because today’s society truly is a technological society, graduate education in electrical engineering offers exceptional opportunities for financial security and personal satisfaction.
The Department of Electrical Engineering at SMU offers a full complement of courses at the master’s and Ph.D. level in communications, information technology, communication networks, digital signal processing, lasers and optoelectronics, photonics, electromagnetics, microwaves, microelectronics, VLSI design, systems and control, and image processing and computer vision. The courses and curriculum are designed and continuously updated to prepare the student for engineering research, design and development at the forefront of these fields.
A professionally oriented master’s degree in telecommunications systems is also offered through the Electrical Engineering Department, and courses in the curriculum (designated EETS) prepare the student for leadership roles in telecommunications systems management and planning and for developing new telecommunications products, services and applications.
Graduate Degrees. The Electrical Engineering Department offers the following graduate degrees:
ProgramsDoctoral
Master
Dual Degree
CoursesElectrical Engineering
For EE courses, the third digit in the course number designator indicates the subject area represented by the course. The courses for the master’s degree in telecommuni-cations are indicated by the prefix EETS. The EETS course descriptions are listed following the EE courses. The following designators are used for EE courses:
XX1X Electronic Materials
XX2X Electronic Devices
XX3X Quantum Electronics and Electromagnetic Theory
XX4X Biomedical Science
XX5X Network Theory and Circuits
XX6X Systems
XX7X Information Science and Communication Theory
XX8X Computers and Digital Systems
XX9X Individual Instruction, Research, Seminar and Special Project
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