UT Dallas 2024 Graduate Catalog

Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

Advances in technology are causing some of the most dramatic changes in the history of civilization. With a mandate from the State of Texas, Texas Instruments and industry, the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science is emerging as a national leader in the technological revolution.

The achievements of the Erik Jonsson School in its short 29-year history include:

  • The school is the third most highly ranked public engineering school in Texas, according to U.S. News & World Report.
  • The school is the third highest producer of computer science graduates in the U.S. and the fifth highest producer of electrical engineering graduates, according to the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
  • The school is the third highest producer of female graduates in computer science in the U.S. and the fourth highest producer of female graduates in electrical engineering.
  • Jonsson School faculty members receive top recognitions from academic, professional and industry organizations, such as the National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Association for Computing Machinery, AVS and American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

With hundreds of high-tech, biomedical and startup companies nearby, the Jonsson School's location allows students and industry to benefit from cutting-edge research and development, top-notch internships and cooperative education programs, and highly qualified employees. These are just a few benefits of a strong alliance between industry and academe.

The strong tie that binds the University to corporations was present even at UT Dallas' inception. Some 47 years ago, the founders of Texas Instruments (TI) offered their private research and development institution to the State of Texas to become part of The University of Texas System. Sixteen years later, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board authorized UT Dallas' Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science to prepare students to tackle the rapidly changing world of technology and communications.

TI remains a strategic collaborator with the University to ensure that the Jonsson School will be recognized as one of the nation's elite engineering schools. Along with the State of Texas and other organizations, TI has been instrumental in the creation of:

  • "Project Emmitt" - an economic development that provided $300 million to expand and improve the Jonsson School;
  • the 200,000-square-foot Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory;
  • the Texas Analog Center of Excellence, or TxACE, which is now the largest university-based analog center in the world;
  • and the Texas Biomedical Device Center, a collaborative, interdisciplinary effort led by Jonsson School faculty members to create new biomedical technology and therapies.

UT Dallas and the Jonsson School have maintained close ties with TI, but as enrollment and programs have grown, so have strong relationships with other corporations. Industry leaders have joined with Jonsson School faculty members and students to conduct research, share resources, enhance educational opportunities and develop new technologies. Amazon, Apple Inc., AT&T, Blackberry, Broadcom, Cisco Systems Inc., Ericsson, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Qualcomm Inc. are among the leading companies in the country where our students find opportunities.

The Jonsson School is organized into six departments: Bioengineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Systems Engineering.

The Computer Science Department was created in 1975 and became part of the Jonsson School in 1986. Today more than 1,500 students in the department are taught by an internationally recognized group of 46 tenured/tenure-track faculty and 13 experienced senior lecturers. Faculty members in the department are committed to excellence in three areas: providing the highest quality instruction; conducting leading edge research in computer science and engineering; and providing leadership and services to professional communities.

The Electrical Engineering Department was founded in 1988. The program provides high quality education and internationally competitive research for the state of Texas, focusing its efforts on areas of greatest need to North Texas industry. The department has 49 tenured or tenure-track faculty members supported by nine senior lecturers. The program specializes in the following areas: circuits and systems, communications and signal processing, control systems, digital systems, power electronics and energy systems, photonic devices and systems, RF and microwave engineering, and solid-state devices and fabrication.

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering, created in 2008 and authorized to offer doctoral and master's degrees, already has fifteen tenure-system faculty members and world-class experimental facilities. Researchers in the department work on solving major societal problems in areas such as energy, biomedical engineering and electronics. With a focus on nanoscale materials and phenomena, the research is at the cutting edge of nanoelectronics, photovoltaics, batteries and super-capacitors, atomically precise manufacturing, nanosize coatings and materials for biomedical applications.

The rapidly growing Department of Mechanical Engineering, organized in 2008, offers bachelor's and master's degrees, and jointly with The University of Texas at Arlington, doctoral degrees. The department's 19 tenure-system faculty and five senior lecturers prepare recent baccalaureate graduates and experienced mechanical engineers for advanced micro-scale and nano-scale mechanical and thermal design and development. Students in the doctoral program will create new technologies and processes for the design, manufacturing and operation of components and systems involving mechanical function at all size scales.

The Department of Bioengineering was organized in 2010 and is authorized to offer bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in biomedical engineering. Graduate programs are offered jointly with the University of Texas at Arlington and UT Southwestern Medical Center. With 20 tenure-system faculty and nine senior lecturers, the program emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach in both its curriculum and research. It couples expertise in electrical, mechanical and materials engineering with a firm grounding in the life sciences.

The newest addition to the Jonsson School, The Department of Systems Engineering, offers the Master of Science degree in Systems Engineering and Management jointly with the Naveen Jindal School of Management. The research and curriculum focus is on the fundamentals of systems engineering and management, with applications in interdisciplinary areas of interest to industry, such as energy systems, healthcare systems, information and computer systems, and mechatronic systems, among others.

Degrees Offered

Masters Programs

Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering (33 semester credit hours minimum)

Master of Science in Computer Engineering (30 semester credit hours minimum)

Master of Science in Computer Science (33 semester credit hours minimum)

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (30 semester credit hours minimum)

Master of Science in Materials Science and Engineering (30 semester credit hours minimum)

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (33 semester credit hours minimum)

Master of Science in Software Engineering (33 semester credit hours minimum)

Master of Science in Systems Engineering and Management (36 semester credit hours minimum)1

Master of Science in Telecommunications Engineering (30 semester credit hours minimum)

Doctoral Programs

Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering (75 semester credit hours beyond the baccalaureate degree)

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Engineering (75 semester credit hours beyond the baccalaureate degree)

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science (75 semester credit hours beyond the baccalaureate degree)

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering (75 semester credit hours beyond the baccalaureate degree)

Doctor of Philosophy in Geospatial Information Sciences (75 semester credit hours beyond the baccalaureate degree)2

Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Science and Engineering (75 semester credit hours beyond the baccalaureate degree)

Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (78 semester credit hours beyond the baccalaureate degree)

Doctor of Philosophy in Software Engineering (75 semester credit hours beyond the baccalaureate degree)

Doctor of Philosophy in Telecommunications Engineering (75 semester credit hours beyond the baccalaureate degree)

Certificates Offered

  • Certificate in Cybersecurity Systems (12 semester credit hours)3
  • Certificate in Cyber Defense (15 semester credit hours)
  • Certificate in Health Data Analytics (9 semester credit hours)
  • Certificate in Semiconductor Technology (12 semester credit hours)
  • Certificate in Systems Engineering (12 semester credit hours)3
  • Certificate in Systems Management (12 semester credit hours)3

    • 1. The Master of Science in Systems Engineering and Management Program is offered jointly by the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science and the Naveen Jindal School of Management.

    2. The Doctor of Philosophy in Geospatial Information Sciences Program is jointly offered by the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, and School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

    3. Certificate is offered jointly by the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science and the Naveen Jindal School of Management.

    Faculty

    Professors: Stephanie Adams, Bilal Akin, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Orlando Auciello, Poras T. Balsara, Farokh B. Bastani, Sergey Bereg, Dinesh Bhatia, Leonidas Bleris, Yun Chiu, Kyeongjae (KJ) Cho, Stuart Cogan, Ovidiu Daescu, Yvo G. Desmedt, Ding-Zhu Du, Babak Fahimi, Baowei Fei, Massimo V. Fischetti, Paul Fishwick, John P. Fonseka, Andrea Fumagalli, D. Todd Griffith, Xiaohu Guo, Gopal Gupta, Zygmunt Haas, Kevin Hamlen, John H. L. Hansen, Sanda M. Harabagiu, Fatemeh Hassanipour, Rashaunda Henderson, Larry Hornbeck, Julia W. P. Hsu, Dung T. Huynh, Jason Jue, Murat Kantarcioglu, Nasser Kehtarnavaz, Latifur Khan, Kamran Kiasaleh, Jiyoung Kim, Moon J. Kim, Gil S. Lee, Hoi Lee, Stefano Leonardi, Stephen D. Levene, Yaoyu Li, Jin Liu, Hongbing Lu, Dongsheng (Brian) Ma, Giorgos (Yiorgos) Makris, Andrian Marcus, Hlaing Minn, Neeraj Mittal, S.O. Reza Moheimani, Dan I. Moldovan, Sriraam Natarajan, Yu-Chung (Vincent) Ng, Tien Nguyen, Aria Nosratinia, Mehrdad Nourani, Simeon C. Ntafos, Kenneth K. O, Lawrence J. Overzet, Issa M. S. Panahi, Joseph Pancrazio, Siavash Pourkamali, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, Ravi Prakash, Shalini Prasad, Dong Qian, Manuel Quevedo-Lopez, Mario A. Rotea, Mohammad Saquib, Kamil Sarac, David Schmidtke, Haim Schweitzer, Carl Sechen, Mark W. Spong, Joshua Summers, Lakshman Tamil, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Murat Torlak, Subbarayan Venkatesan, Amy V. Walker, Robert M. Wallace, W. Eric Wong, Weili Wu, I-Ling Yen, Seung M. You, Steve Yurkovich, Rym Zalila-Wenkstern, Dian Zhou

    Associate Professors: William Anderson, Benjamin Carrion Schafer, Feng Chen, Lawrence Chung, Jorge A. Cobb, Joseph Friedman, Lev D. Gelb, Mona Ghassemi, Vibhav Gogate, Heather Hayenga, Seth Hays, Giacomo (Valerio) Iungo, Brian Kim, Golden Kumar, Cong Liu, Arif Malik, Kristin Miller, Majid Minary-Jolandan, Zhenpeng Qin, Benjamin Raichel, Danieli Rodrigues, Nicholas Ruozzi, Justin Ruths, Shashank Sirsi, Tyler Summers, Yonas Tadesse, William Vandenberghe, Victor Varner, Walter E. Voit, Chadwin D. Young, Jie Zhang

    Assistant Professors: Waseem Abbas, Kanad Basu, Rodrigo Bernal Montoya, Chen Cao, Shuang (Cynthia) Cui, Yichen Ding, Polimyr Dingal, Xinya Du, Sourav Dutta, Xu Feng, Jacopo Ferruzzi, Emily Kyle Fox, Yongsheng Gao, Matthew Gardner, Yunhui Guo, Shuang Hao, Rishabh Iyer, Kangkook Jee, Yaqing Jin, Caroline Jones, Gu Eon Kang, Chung Hwan Kim, Jin Kim, Justin Koeln, Juyoung Leem, Wei Li, You Li, Ifana Mahbub, Kyle McCall, Eric Meyers, Xinchen Ni, Girgis Obaid, Hui Ouyang, Jessica Ouyang, Jae Mo Park, Justin Ruths, Kaveh Shamsi, Yapeng Tian, Cormac Toher, Shiyi Wei, Yu Xiang, Guoping Xiong, Yanwen Xu, Wei Yang, Kianoosh Yousefi, Armin Zare, Yue Zhou

    Professors of Practice: Dani Fadda, Todd W. Polk, jxr230031

    Research Professors: Andrew Marshall, Hisashi (Sam) Shichijo

    Professors Emeriti: Andrew J. Blanchard, Yves J. Chabal, R. Chandrasekaran, Bruce E. Gnade, C. Robert Helms, Duncan L. MacFarlane, Ivor P. Page, William J. Pervin, Balaji Raghavachari, Don Shaw, Ivan Hal Sudborough, Klaus Truemper, Subbarayan Venkatesan, Kang Zhang

    Associate Professor Emeritus: Gerald O. Burnham

    UT Dallas Affiliated Faculty: Larry Ammann, Kenneth J. Balkus Jr., Ray H. Baughman, Dinesh Bhatia, Leonidas Bleris, Carlos A. Busso-Recabarren, Kyeongjae (KJ) Cho, Stuart Cogan, Fabiano Da Silveira Rodrigues, Xianming Dai, Crystal Engineer, Babak Fahimi, John P. Ferraris, Massimo V. Fischetti, Jeremiah J. Gassensmith, Matthew J. Goeckner, Zygmunt Haas, John Hart Jr., Fatemeh Hassanipour, Kenneth Hoyt, Russell A. Hulse, Michael P. Kilgard, Jiyoung Kim, Moon J. Kim, David J. Lary, Mark Lee, Yaoyu Li, Hongbing Lu, Lloyd Lumata, Bing Lv, Anton V. Malko, S.O. Reza Moheimani, Faruck Morcos, Mehrdad Nourani, Kenneth K. O, Lawrence J. Overzet, Issa M. S. Panahi, Wooram Park, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, Shalini Prasad, Zhenpeng Qin, Robert L. Rennaker II, Mario A. Rotea, Justin Ruths, Bart Rypma, Jason D. Slinker, Mark W. Spong, Mihaela C. Stefan, Tyler Summers, Yonas Tadesse, Lakshman Tamil, William Vandenberghe, Amy V. Walker, Robert M. Wallace, Steve Yurkovich, Anvar A. Zakhidov, Jie Zhang, Jie Zheng

    Professors of Instruction: Ebru Cankaya, John Cole, Doug DeGroot, Timothy (Tim) Farage, James Florence, Richard Goodrum, Shyam Karrah, Pushpa Kumar, Jung Lee, Randall E. Lehmann, Nhut Nguyen, Tooraj Nikoubin, Greg Ozbirn, Miguel Razo-Razo, Ricardo E. Saad, William (Bill) Swartz, Marco Tacca, Jeyakesavan (Jey) Veerasamy

    Associate Professors of Instruction: Sridhar Alagar, Md Ali, Gordon Arnold, Anjum Chida, Wei Pang Chin, Bhadrachalam Chitturi, Michael Christiansen, Diana Cogan, Chris I. Davis, Karen Doore, Neeraj Gupta, Matthew Heins, Khiem Le, Rabah Mezenner, Kathleen Myers, Anarag Nagar, Mehra Nouroz Borazjany, Jalal Omer, Wooram Park, Mark Paulk, Benjamin Porter, Oziel Rios, Neal Skinner, Jason W. Smith, P.L. Stephan Thamban, Laurie Thompson, James Willson, Nurcan Yuruk

    Assistant Professors of Instruction: Eric Becker, Fang Bian, Katherine Brown, Scott Dollinger, Serdar Erbatur, Ranran Feng, Levi Good, Omar Hamdy, Gity Karami, Kamran Khan, Karen Mazidi, Rebecca McClain, Richard K. Min, Priya Narayanasami, Brian Ricks, Christian Rivera, Elmer Salazar, Meghana Satpute, Rafiul Shihab, Nidhiben Solanki, Srimathi Srinivasan, Yi Zhao

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