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For the Ph.D. degree, a minimum of 90 graduate quarter credits beyond the M.S. degree (135 quarter credits beyond the B.S. degree for Direct Route to the Ph.D.) including 45 credits for doctoral dissertation research must be completed. At least 15 credit hours of classroom coursework at 700 or higher level must be completed from the course categories marked as Primary. Courses from Optional categories may be done without written consent of the advisor but courses from other categories need advisor's written consent to be placed in student's file.

The following table has columns pertaining to the degree program and track that we offer in our department and rows corresponding to different course groups. The entries in the table's cells are to be interpreted as follows:

"Primary" in a cell means that the courses in this course group (row) are primary to the degree program (column) and students pursuing this degree program must complete some minimum number of credits from their primary course groups.
"Optional" in a cell means that the courses in this course group (row) can be taken for this degree program and will be counted towards the degree requirements.
An empty cell means that the courses in this course group may be counted for this degree program only if a written permission to do the course has been obtained from the permanent advisor of the student, and placed in student's file in the graduate office.
If a cell says "min 1 course" then that degree program requires that a student complete at least one course from this course group.

Group	Courses	Requirement
		Ph.D. in CSE		Ph.D. in EE
		CE Trk.	CS Track	Device Trk	Systm Trk
Algorithms	742 Parallel Algorithms & Architec. 781 Advanced Algorithms I 782 Advanced Algorithms II 844 Probability and Algorithms	Optional Primary	Primary Min 1 course
Internet Computing	728 Internet Studies & Web algorithms 842 Graph/Network Algorithms		Optional
Languages and Compilers	670 Automata & Formal Lang. 683 Compiler Theory 685 Compiler Lab 7xx Organization of Prog. Lang. 868 Adv. Compiler Optimization	Primary	Primary
Operating Systems and Architectures	629 Intro to Operating Systems 795 Intro to Comptr Architecture 847 Advanced Operating Syst 864 Adv. Computer Architecture 945 High Perf. Distr. Computing 975 Parallel Discrete Events	Primary	Primary Min 1 course
Networks	625 Data Encoding 653 Network Security 743 Computer Networking 797 Mobile/Wireless Communic. 798 Performance Evaluation 846 Advanced Mobile Computng 865 Adv. Computer Networks	Primary	Primary Min 1 course		Optional
Human Computer Interaction	660 Computer Graphics 667 User Interface I 669 Collaborative Computing 765 Computer Graphics 2 766 User Interface 2		Primary
Numerical Methods	738 Parall. & Dist. Numer.. Methods	Primary	Optional
VLSI	617 Silicon Programming 650 Mlti-disc collab design 676 VLSI Design Automation 680 Phys VLSI Design 681 VLSI System Design 682 VLSI Testing and Validation 762 Low Power VLSI Circuits 819 Topics in VLSI Design 947 Res in CAD for VLSI Syst	Primary
Software Engineering	694 Adv. Prog. Concepts		Optional
Bioinformatics	786 Computational Genomics		Optional
Theoretical Foundations of CS	615 Computer Arithmetic 621 Math Logic 1 624 Math Logic 2 635 Math Logic 3 735 Computer Security I 736 Computer Security II 769 Computational Geometry		Primary
Database Theory	651 Database Theory 752 Advanced Databases 877 Adv Data Models 963 Data Warehouse Design	Primary	Primary Min 1 course
Intelligent Systems	633 Artificial Intelligence I 634 Artificial Intelligence II 636 Intelligent Systems 637 Machine Learning 724 Logic in AI 731 Distributed AI 821 Pattern Recognition 858 Data Mining 867 Biomorphic Systems		Primary Min 1 course		Primary
Controls and Instrumentation	630 Adv Sensors Instrumentation 663 Industrial Controls Lab 695 Modern Control Engineering 696 Proc Control & Man. Syst 741 Stoch Decision and Control 841 Adv. Decision Processes 918 System ID 875 Robust Adaptive Control				Primary Min 1 course
Image and Digital Signal Processing	642 Digital Image Processing 644 Digital Signal Proc Lab 645 Intro Digital Signal Proc. 825 Adaptive Signal Processing 986 Adv. Computer Vision		Optional		Primary Min 1 course
Communication Systems	626 Communication Systems 632 Digital Communications 718 Video Proc. & Communic. 719 Wireless Communication 728 Information Theory 767 Multiuser Commun. Theory				Primary Min 1 course
Systems Theory	619 Intro to Random Processes 733 Fndtns applied Systems 734 Applied System Theory 638 Non-Linear & Intell. Syst 791 Nonlinear Systems 854 Complex Systems				Primary Min 1 Course
Semiconductor Physics Solid State Devices	647 Semi. Device Model VLSI 684 Silicon Millimeter Devices 750 Semicond & Heterojunctions 757 Semiconductor Physics 758 Quantum Mechanics for EE 761 High Speed Elec. Devices 809 Materials Charcter. Structure 810 Optical Material Characterzn 925 Wide bandgap Semicond			Primary
Fabrication	618 Microfab of semicond device 641 Silicon Semicond Fabricatn 697 Compnd Semi Fabrictn Lab 714 Microfab of Comp. Semi devices 721 Plasma Processing 722 Fab Process Modeling			Primary
Photonics	614 Photonic Info Proc Lab 648 Fund. Optoelectronics 652 Optical Communications 712 Intro to Optical Computing 773 Photonic Devices 784 Adv. Semicond Lasers 982 Org/Inorg Light Emitters			Primary
MEMS	607 Intro to Biomedical Systems 608 Fundamentals of MEMS 668 Microsensors for Instrum. 707 Biomedical MEMS 771 Applications of MEMS			Primary
Circuits and Systems	611 Microwave Communications 612 Microwave Comm. Lab 711 Millimeter Wave Electronics 776 VLSI for multitech. Systems 843 GaAs Integrated Circuits			Primary	Optional
Quantum Computing	622 Intro Quantum Computing 753 Topics in Quantum Computing		Optional	Optional
Graduate Seminar	701 Graduate Seminar	1 credit	1 credit	1 credit	1 credit
	702 Graduate Seminar	1 credit	1 credit	1 credit	1 credit
	703 Graduate Seminar	1 credit	1 credit	1 credit	1 credit

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