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Ph.D. Qualifying Exam (Fall 2026–2027)

Dear Students,

The proficiency exam will be held in person on April 24, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. in Room B156.

  • The written exam will last 120 minutes. 
  • The written qualifying exam will cover the courses offered in our department over the last four semesters.
  • One question will be asked from each course, and students will answer a total of 5 questions.
  • Students must score at least 70/100 on the written qualifying exam. 
  • Students who do not pass the written qualifying exam will not be allowed to take the oral exam.
  • Students must score at least 50/100 on the oral qualifying exam.
  • The arithmetic average of the written and oral qualifying exams must be at least 70/100.

Course Code and Title

EHM5101 Switch-Mode Power Converters

EHM5102 Active Filter Synthesis

EHM5104 Industrial Automatic Control Systems

EHM5107 Control System Design 

EHM5108 Neural Networks and Applications 

EHM5109 Programmable Controllers

EHM5113 FPGA-Based Embedded System Design

EHM5114 Chaos Theory and Applications

EHM5202 Digital Filters 

EHM5212 Advanced Antenna Theory 

EHM5213 Advanced Electromagnetic Theory 1

EHM5218 Communication Technologies 

EHM5219 Statistical Signal Processing       

EHM5222 Linear Microwave Circuits 1

EHM5225 Microwave Radar Systems 

EHM5227 Complex Function Theory in Solving Engineering and Physics Problems

EHM5232 Digital Signal Processing and Applications

EHM5233 Probabilistic Methods in Systems Analysis

EHM5235 Wireless Communication Networks 

EHM5237 Satellite Communication Systems

EHM5238 Data Communication Systems

EHM5239 Subsurface Imaging Radar

EHM5245 Analysis and Synthesis of Antenna Arrays

EHM5271 Data-Driven Surrogate Modeling Techniques and Applications 

EHM5301 Current-Mode Circuits 

EHM5313 Optimization Algorithms

EHM5318 Next-Generation Wireless Communication Systems

EHM5401 Computer-Aided Circuit Design 

EHM5403 Biometrics

EHM5413 Artificial Intelligence-Based Systems

EHM5420 Microwave Engineering

EHM5422 RF Circuit Design

EHM5423 Analysis of RF/Microwave Circuits Using Intelligent Systems

EHM5427 Computer-Aided Numerical Analysis Methods

EHM6101 Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits

EHM6110 Estimation Theory

EHM6111 Information Theory

EHM6113 Adaptive Filter Theory

EHM6114 Game Theory and Computational Theory for Wireless Networks

EHM6115 Optical Waveguides

EHM6116 Cellular Network Planning and Optimization

EHM6117 Electromagnetic Scattering Theory

EHM6208 Advanced Topics in Electromagnetics

EHM6210 Implementation of Advanced Microwave Passive Circuits 1

EHM6292 Digital Communication Theory

EHM6301 Analysis of Nonlinear Circuits

EHM6304 Communication and Target Detection Applications in Mobile Robots 

EHM6308 Dynamics of Moving Structures

EHM6702 Numerical Methods in Electromagnetic Theory