A major activity of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering's graduate program is the advancement of knowledge through scientific research.

Faculty members in the department are active in conducting research at the forefront of their specialties. Many graduate students in the department are provided with the opportunity to conduct research under faculty guidance as part of their degree program.

For more detailed information you are urged to correspond directly with individual faculty members.

Graduate studies are offered in all areas of electrical and computer engineering, and most specializations can be pursued in depth.

These studies are presently organized into the following areas:

• APPLIED PHYSICS
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• Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
• Solid State and Microelectronics
• Photonics
• Plasmas and Controlled Fusion
• COMPUTER ENGINEERING
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• Computer Architecture
• Computer-aided Design and Test
• POWER ENGINEERING
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• Machines
• Power Electronics
• Power Systems
• SYSTEMS
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• Control
• Communications
• Signal Processing
• Biomedical

The boundaries between these areas are not sharp and inter-area interaction is encouraged.

Many of our department's research groups maintain web sites which highlight their research activities:

• Complex systems, nonlinear dynamics, and electric power
• The Helically Symmetric Experiment (HSX) Plasma Laboratory
• Microfabricated probe and sensor lab
• Pharm, Predictive High-Performance Architecture Research Mavens, UW-Madison Computer Architecture Group
• Plasma Processing and Technology Laboratory
• Strata, Wisconsin Virtual Machine Co-design Group
• UWCEM, Computational Electromagnetics Laboratory
• VLSI Design and Electronic Design Automation Lab
• Wireless Communications Research Group
• Wisconsin Electric Machines & Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC)

Research groups affiliated with our department maintain the following web sites:

• Microtechnology, Medicine and Biology Lab
• Wisconsin Multifacet Project

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