Electrical and Computer Engineering
Head
Greenspan, M.
Coordinator of Graduate Studies
Freundorfer, A.P.
Professor
Blostein, S.D., Cartledge, J.C., Chan, W.Y.G., Gazor, S., Greenspan, M., Jain, P., Korenberg, M.J., Liu, Y.-F., Rudie, K.
Associate Professor
Afsahi, A., Bakhshai, A., Dean, T.R., Frank, B., Freundorfer, A.P., Hashtrudi-Zaad, K., Ibnkahla, M., Kim, I.-M., Manijikian, N., Morin, E.L.,Saavedra, C., Safwat, A.1, Simmons, S.J., Yam, S.H. Yousefi, S., Zou, Y.
Professor Emeritus
Hamacher, V.C., McLane, P.J., Sen, P.C.
Cross-Appointed
Alajaji, F., Amari, S., Antar, Y.M.M., Cordy, J., Fichtinger, G., Hassanein, H.S., Linder, T., Mousavi, P., Noureldin, A., Zulkernine, M.
1. On leave 2010-11
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Departmental Facilities
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is housed in Walter Light Hall which provides over 5,400 square meters of modern research, teaching, library and classroom facilities. The building is linked to Goodwin Hall which houses the School of Computing. Additional space for undergraduate laboratories and research is located in Fleming and Goodwin Halls.
Graduate research is supported by an extensive network of personal computers and workstations. In total, there are over one hundred workstations and personal computers maintained within the Department. The administration of the network is both open and flexible to allow the sharing of data, application software, and peripherals among all groups. In addition, an ATM fiber network is available for research use and several research groups also operate stand-alone computer systems linked to specialized research equipment. The Department also provides several computing laboratories to support both graduate and undergraduate courses. Installed operating systems include Unix, Windows, and Windows NT and a wide range of application software is available on both the teaching and research networks. Access to University wide computing resources, such as the Library systems and the Internet, is provided through high speed network switches.
Facilities in the Department include laboratories, with extensive modern equipment and instrumentation, dedicated to research in digital communications, cellular and satellite communications, wireless network and modems, computer communications, computer architecture and parallel processing, photonic packet switching network, information networks technology and network performance testing and monitoring, image processing, communication signal processing, array signal processing, video image compression, fiber optics, microwave integrated circuits, microwave communications, wireless communications, power electronics, electric drive systems, biomedical engineering, robotics and control systems.
A large number of graduate students are associated with projects being carried out under several federal and provincial centres of excellence, including Communications and Information Technology Ontario (CITO), Photonic Research Ontario (PRO), the Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations (CIPI), and the Canadian Institute for Telecommunications Research (CITR). Graduate students whose research involves VLSI design have access to the facilities of the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation (CMC) which is located on the Queen's University campus.
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Financial Assistance
Graduate students are frequently supported by one or more of external scholarships (such as Ontario Graduate Scholarships and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Postgraduate Scholarships), University awards, research assistantships available from individual members of staff, and teaching assistantships. Teaching assistantships involve approximately 170 hours of work during the academic year and are offered, based upon Departmental needs, to full-time students in the first two years of the M.Sc. program and the first four years of the Ph.D. program. Student income typically ranges from $17,000 to $27,000 per annum, depending primarily upon whether or not an external scholarship is held. For further information, please contact the Coordinator of Graduate Studies.
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Areas of Research
The research activities of the Department fall into six broad areas:
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Programs of Study
Applicants are accepted under the general regulations of the School of Graduate Studies.
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MASTERS DEGREES
Master of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.)
The minimum requirements are a research thesis and 4 term-length graduate courses or their equivalent.
One senior (400 series) under-graduate course is acceptable as equivalent to a graduate course provided that the course is in a discipline (a) other than that in which the student obtained his/her Bachelor's degree and, (b) other than that in which he/she is registered for the Master's program. The program of study must be approved by the Department. During the Master's program, it is expected that students present at least one seminar to other graduate students and faculty
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.)(Non-Thesis Option) The minimum requirements are described in Master's Degree Requirements of the general regulations. These include: A total of eight term-length courses with a maximum of two fourth-year level undergraduate courses. All the course selections must be approved by the Department. These courses must be selected as follows: (1) Four term-length graduate courses must be courses offered in the Department. (2) Two of the courses in (1) may be replaced by ELEC-898-M.Eng. Project. (3) Normally, the remaining courses may be chosen from courses listed by the Department, or from courses offered by another department in Queen's University, or from Royal Military College. (4) The student must select at least one course that contains a project if not selecting the project course ELEC898. A list of courses containing a project is maintained by the department. |
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
During the first term, the Ph.D. candidate and supervisor establish an internal thesis committee consisting of supervisor, internal examiner, and department representative. At this time, an area of research is chosen. The requirements to be fulfilled include a minimum of 4 term-length graduate courses beyond the Master’s degree, a two-part comprehensive examination, satisfactory research progress and a thesis. One of the courses must be taken from outside the Department and may be at the fourth-year undergraduate level. One of the graduate courses must be taken inside the Department. The program of study must be approved by the Department.
All Ph.D. candidates will take a comprehensive examination administered in two parts by the candidate’s thesis committee. Part I deals with the candidate’s background in his/her chosen area of research. Part II consists of the candidate’s thesis proposal. An internal-external examiner (within Queen’s University, outside ECE Department) is added to the thesis committee for Part II. Part I is normally held shortly after course work completion. Part II is normally held within seven months of successful completion of Part I. After the successful completion of Part II, thesis research progress is reported by the candidate and reviewed by the thesis committee every six months. During the Ph.D. program, it is required that students present at least one seminar to other graduate students and faculty.
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Materials Science and Technology
The Department cooperates with the Departments of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Physics in offering courses and research projects to students wishing to concentrate in materials science and technology. Students are registered for M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in one of the six departments and are encouraged to take relevant courses from the others.
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Programs of Study 
