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Graduate Certificate Programs

Advisor:   Professor Hong-Liang Cui Ph.D.   |   M.S.   |   M.E.

The Department of Physics and Engineering Physics offers five Graduate Certificate programs to students meeting the regular admission requirements for the master’s program. Each Graduate Certificate program is self-contained and highly focused, carrying 12 graduate credits. All of the courses may be used toward the master’s degree as well as for the certificate.

Applied Optics
  • PEP 577  Laser Theory and Design
  • PEP 578  Laser Applications and Advanced Optics

    • and two out of the following four courses:
  • PEP 515  Photonics I
  • PEP 516  Photonics II
  • PEP 570  Guided-Wave Optics
  • PEP 679  Fourier Optics
Photonics
  • EE/MT/PEP 507  Introduction to Microelectronics and Photonics
  • EE/MT/PEP 515  Photonics I
  • EE/MT/PEP 516  Photonics II
  • EE/MT/PEP 626  Optical Communication Systems
Microelectronics
  • EE/MT/PEP 507  Introduction to Microelectronics and Photonics
  • EE/MT/PEP 561  olid State Electronics I
  • EE/MT/PEP 562  olid State Electronics II
  • CpE/MT/PEP 690  Introduction to VLSI Design
Microdevices and Microsystems
  • EE/MT/PEP 507  Introduction to Microelectronics and Photonics
  • EE/MT/PEP 595  Reliability and Failure of Solid State Devices
  • EE/MT/PEP 596  Micro-Fabrication Techniques
  • EE/MT/PEP 685  Physical Design of Wireless Systems

Any ONE elective in the three certificates above may be replaced with another within the Microelectronics and Photonics (MP) curriculum upon approval from the MP Program Director.

Plasma and Surface Physics
  • PEP 503  Introduction to Solid State Physics
  • PEP 524  Introduction to Surface Science

    • and two out of the following four courses:
  • PEP 525  Techniques of Surface Analysis
  • PEP 540  Physical Electronics
  • PEP 541  The Physic of Gas Discharges
  • PEP 545  Plasma Processing
Satellite Communications Engineering
(Interdisciplinary with Electrical and Computer Engineering)
  • EE 587 Microwave Engineering I or EE 787 Applied Antenna Theory
  • EE 611 Digital Communications Engineering
  • EE 620 Reliability Engineering
  • EE 674 Satellite Communications
  • EE 740 Selected Topics in Communication Theory
  • EE course descriptions can be found in the Electrical and Computer Engineering section of the catalog.
Atmospheric and Environmental Science and Engineering
(Interdisciplinary with Civil, Ocean and Environmental Engineering)
  • PEP 575  Fundamentals of Atmospheric Radiation and Climate
  • CE 591 Dynamic Meteorology
  • ME 532/EN 506 Air Pollution Principles and Control
  • EN 550 Environmental Chemistry of Atmospheric Processes

This graduate certificate program is offered as a campus-based program as well as a web-based distance learning program.

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