The general areas of graduate research in Electrical Engineering are electromagnetics and optics; electronics and photonics; communications, computers, networking, and signal processing; and control and power systems. Specializations available within these areas include:
- microwaves, antennas, and propagation;
- electro-optics and nonlinear optics;
- remote sensing and space systems;
- materials and devices;
- circuits and networks;
- VLSI;
- communications;
- networking;
- signal and image processing;
- computer vision and pattern recognition;
- control systems; and
- power systems.

