Title of Degree:
PhD in Electrical Engineering

Degree Duration:

  • Minimum 3 Years
  • Maximum 7 Years

Admission Requirements:

  • As per advertisement
  • PEC Registration is mandatory
  • MS with thesis is mandatory
  • University Admission Test

Intake:
Twice a year (Spring and Fall semester)

Job Market:
National and Global Industry, Strategic Organizations, Higher Education Sector (Teaching and Research)

Research Strengths
Research thesis can be done in any of the following areas:

  1. Communication Systems
  2. Signal and Image Processing
  3. Power and Control Systems
  4. Advanced Electronics

Degree Requirements:

  • 18 Credit Hours of course work
  • 36 Credit Hours of Research Work
  • Comprehensive examination (Oral and Written)
  • Research Publication as per IIU/HEC rules
  • Thesis Foreign Evaluation
  • Local Defense

Comprehensive Examination:

  • After course work completion, student will have to appear in comprehensive exam within 90 days (Maximum 02 attempts)
  • Comprehensive examination (written and Oral) will be conducted from general course work and research area of interest, respectively.
  • Passing marks of comprehensive exam are 70%.

Synopsis Guideline:

  • PhD student should submit thesis synopsis to the department within 120 days after passing comprehensive exam.

Semester wise course distribution of PhD in Electrical Engineering

  Course     code Course Title LectureHrs. Credit Hours
1st Semester EEXXX Course I 3 3
EEXXX Course II 3 3
EEXXX Course III 3 3
Total Credit Hours 09 09
2nd Semester Course    Code Course Title LectureHrs. Credit   Hours
EEXXX Course IV 3 3
EEXXX Course V 3 3
EEXXX Course VI 3 3
Total Credit Hours 09 09
Total Credit Hours of Degree 18 18
3rd Semester Onwards Course    Code Course Title LectureHrs. Credit   Hours
EEXXX Thesis 36 36
Total Credit Hours 36 36
Total Credit Hours of Degree 54 54

List of Courses (PhD in Electrical Engineering)

Group 1: Stream 1 Codes {0,1}

Sr. No. Course Code Course Title
1 EE801 Micro fluidics and Lab-on-a-chip Systems
2 EE802 Advanced Multiprocessor Systems
3 EE803 VLSI Test Principle and Challenges
4 EE804 Integrated Circuits (IC) Packaging
5 EE805 Integrated Chip (IC) Manufacturing Technology
6 EE806 Semiconductor Device Reliability
7 EE807 Organic Electronics
8 EE808 Smart Sensors Technology
9 EE809 Infrared Detectors & Systems
10 EE810 Energy Materials Design
11 EE811 Advanced Thermoelectric Technology
12 EE812 Special Topics in Nanoelectronics
13 EE813 Advanced Nano-scale Photovoltaics
14 EE814 Compound Semiconductor Device Processing
15 EE815 Quantum Information Process Devices
16 EE816 Computational Nano electronics
17 EE817 Special Topics in Electronic Design Technology
18 EE818 Special Topics in Micro and Nanosystem
19 EE819 Special Topics in Optoelectronics and Photonics

Group 2 :Stream2 codes {2,3,4}

Sr. No. Course Code Course Title
1 EE820 Fuzzy Logic
2 EE821 Supervised Neural Networks
3 EE822 Computer Vision 
4 EE823 Detection and Estimation Theory   
5 EE824 Array Signal Processing
6 EE824 Speech Processing
7 EE826 Pattern Recognition   
8 EE827 Advanced Radar Image Processing
9 EE828 Audio Video Standards
10 EE829 Advanced Digital Signal Processing II
11 EE830 Advanced Medical Image Processing
12 EE831 Sparse Signal Processing
13 EE832 Unsupervised Neural Networks
14 EE833 Special Topics in Digital Image Processing
15 EE834 Special topics in Signal Processing
16 EE835 Advance Topics in Image Processing   
17 EE836 Source Coding and Data Compression
18 EE837 Advance Array Signal Processing
19 EE838 Advance Pattern Recognition   
20 EE839 Advanced Neural Networks
21 EE840 Emerging Trends in Fuzzy Logic

 Group 3: Stream3 codes {5,6}

Sr. No. Course Code Course Title
1 EE850 Advanced Multimedia Services Over IP Networks
2 EE851 Advanced Antenna Design
3 EE852 Advanced Broadband Communication
4 EE853 Personal and Mobile Communication
5 EE854 Advanced Sensor Networks
6 EE855 Advanced Information Security
7 EE856 Advanced Microwave Engineering
8 EE857 RF Front End
9 EE858 Advanced Cryptography
10 EE859 Special Topics in digital communication
11 EE860 Special topics in Information Theory
12 EE861 Special Topics in Coding Theory
13 EE862 Special topics in Electromagnetic theory
14 EE863 Special topics in satellite communication
15 EE864 Random Process
16 EE865 Advanced System Modeling Methods
17 EE866 Advanced Topics in Optimization Techniques

Group 4: Stream 4 Codes {7,8,9}

Sr. No. Course Code Course Title
1 EE870 Electric Power Transmission and Economic Dispatch
2 EE871 Power Generation and plant operation
3 EE872 Advanced power electronics and FACTS devices
4 EE873 Design of AC and DC converters
5 EE874 Advanced Power System Analysis
6 EE875 Smart Grids
8 EE876 Advanced Power System Protection
9 EE877 Power system dynamics and control
10 EE878 Special Topics in Power Electronics
11 EE879 Special Topics in Energy
12 EE880 Recent Trends in Electrical Power Engineering
13 EE881 Advanced Power Systems and Electricity Markets Operations
14 EE882 Technologies for Smart Transmission Systems
15 EE883 Advanced Control System design
19 EE884 Advanced Digital Control Systems
20 EE885 Advanced Robust Control Systems 
21 EE886 Advance Topics in Adaptive Control System   
22 EE887 Systems Modeling and Identification   
23 EE888 Advanced Non-linear Control Systems   
24 EE889 Stochastic and Process Control
25 EE890 Neuro-Fuzzy Control
26 EE891 Optimization Methods in Control Systems
27 EE892 Special Topics in Control Engineering
28 EE893 Special topics in Heuristic Computation Techniques
29 EE894 Machine Learning and Data Science

Thesis:

1 EE999 Thesis

Contact Information
Graduate program Office
Department of Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
International Islamic University, Islamabad
[email protected]
+9251-9019581