Title of Degree:
PhD in Electrical Engineering

Degree Duration:

  • 3-5 Years

Admission Requirements:

  • As per advertisement
  • PEC Registration is mandatory
  • MS with thesis is mandatory
  • Admission test passing marks: 70 out of 100

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 (Written)
  • Research Publication as per IIU/HEC rules
  • Thesis Foreign Evaluation
  • Local Defense

Semester wise course distribution of PhD in Electrical Engineering

  Course code Course Title Lecture Hrs. 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 Lecture Hrs. Credit Hours
EEXXX Course IV 3 3
EEXXX Course V 3 3
EEXXX Course VI 3 3
Total Credit Hours 09 09
Thesis Credit Hrs 0 36
Total Credit Hours of Degree   54

List of Courses (PhD in Electrical Engineering)

Group 1

Sr. No. Course Code Course Title
1 EE721 Micro fluidics and Lab-on-a-chip Systems
2 EE722 Advanced Multiprocessor Systems
3 EE724 VLSI Test Principle and Challenges
4 EE725 Integrated Circuits (IC) Packaging
5 EE728 Integrated Chip (IC) Manufacturing Technology
6 EE729 Semiconductor Device Reliability
7 EE711 Organic Electronics
8 EE712 Smart Sensors Technology
9 EE713 Infrared Detectors & Systems
10 EE726 Energy Materials Design
11 EE727 Advanced Thermoelectric Technology
12 EE821 Special Topics in Nanoelectronics
13 EE822 Advanced Nano-scale Photovoltaics
14 EE823 Compound Semiconductor Device Processing
15 EE824 Quantum Information Process Devices
16 EE825 Computational Nano electronics
17 EE826 Special Topics in Electronic Design Technology
18 EE827 Special Topics in Micro and Nanosystem
19 EE828 Special Topics in Optoelectronics and Photonics

Group 2

Sr. No. Course Code Course Title
1 EE702 Fuzzy Logic
2 EE703 Supervised Neural Networks
3 EE730 Computer Vision
4 EE731 Detection and Estimation Theory
5 EE732 Array Signal Processing
6 EE733 Speech Processing
7 EE734 Pattern Recognition
8 EE735 Advanced Radar Image Processing
9 EE736 Audio Video Standards
10 EE737 Advanced Digital Signal Processing II
11 EE738 Advanced Medical Image Processing
12 EE739 Sparse Signal Processing
13 EE800 Unsupervised Neural Networks
14 EE830 Special Topics in Digital Image Processing
15 EE831 Special topics in Signal Processing
16 EE832 Advance Topics in Image Processing
17 EE833 Source Coding and Data Compression
18 EE834 Advance Array Signal Processing
19 EE835 Advance Pattern Recognition
20 EE836 Advanced Neural Networks
21 EE837 Emerging Trends in Fuzzy Logic

Group 3

Sr. No. Course Code Course Title
1 EE741 Advanced Multimedia Services Over IP Networks
2 EE742 Advanced Antenna Design
3 EE743 Advanced Broadband Communication
4 EE744 Personal and Mobile Communication
5 EE745 Advanced Sensor Networks
6 EE746 Advanced Information Security
7 EE747 Advanced Microwave Engineering
8 EE840 RF Front End
9 EE841 Advanced Cryptography
10 EE842 Special Topics in digital communication
11 EE843 Special topics in Information Theory
12 EE844 Special Topics in Coding Theory
13 EE845 Special topics in Electromagnetic theory
14 EE848 Special topics in satellite communication

Group 4

Sr. No. Course Code Course Title
1 EE751 Electric Power Transmission and Economic Dispatch
2 EE752 Power Generation and plant operation
3 EE753 Advanced power electronics and FACTS devices
4 EE754 Design of AC and DC converters
5 EE756 Advanced Power System Analysis
6 EE757 Smart Grids
8 EE758 Advanced Power System Protection
9 EE759 Power system dynamics and control
10 EE850 Special Topics in Power Electronics
11 EE851 Special Topics in Energy
12 EE853 Recent Trends in Electrical Power Engineering
13 EE854 Advanced Power Systems and Electricity Markets Operations
14 EE855 Technologies for Smart Transmission Systems
15 EE761 Advanced Control System design
19 EE762 Advanced Digital Control Systems
20 EE763 Advanced Robust Control Systems
21 EE764 Advance Topics in Adaptive Control System
22 EE765 Systems Modeling and Identification
23 EE766 Advanced Non-linear Control Systems
24 EE767 Stochastic and Process Control
25 EE768 Neuro-Fuzzy Control
26 EE769 Optimization Methods in Control Systems
27 EE860 Special Topics in Control Engineering

Group 5

Sr. No. Course Code Course Title
1 EE704 Random Process
2 EE702 Advanced System Modeling Methods
3 EE703 Advanced Topics in Optimization Techniques
4 EE802 Special topics in Heuristic Computation Techniques
5 EE705 Machine Learning and Data Science

Contact Information
Graduate program Office
Department of Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
International Islamic University, Islamabad
graduateofficedee@iiu.edu.pk
+9251-9019581