Our electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. prepares you for leadership and research positions in government, academia, and private industry. You’ll cultivate high-level, multidisciplinary expertise that equips you to influence the future of electrical and computer engineering. Oakland University has unique partnerships with industry leaders, providing you with outstanding opportunities to collaborate on electrical and computer engineering research, attract funding, and build your professional network. Our program also stands out for its extraordinary breadth, with faculty expertise across a broad range of specializations in in electrical and computer engineering. Whether you’re interested in manufacturing, automotive, energy, communications, robotics, computer system design, or another industry, Oakland’s Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering provides elite training and hands-on experience to support your career objective.
Our electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. prepares you for leadership and research positions in government, academia, and private industry. You’ll cultivate high-level, multidisciplinary expertise that equips you to influence the future of electrical and computer engineering. Oakland University has unique partnerships with industry leaders, providing you with outstanding opportunities to collaborate on electrical and computer engineering research, attract funding, and build your professional network. Our program also stands out for its extraordinary breadth, with faculty expertise across a broad range of specializations in in electrical and computer engineering. Whether you’re interested in manufacturing, automotive, energy, communications, robotics, computer system design, or another industry, Oakland’s Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering provides elite training and hands-on experience to support your career objective.
Oakland’s electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. stands out for its combination of deep specialization and interdisciplinary expertise. Our faculty and students are actively involved in some of the most exciting frontiers in electrical and computer engineering research, including (but not limited to) autonomous vehicles, augmented reality, bioengineering, digital signal processing, pattern recognition, and mechatronics.
Oakland University’s Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering equips you for leadership careers in industrial or governmental research and development, as well as academic roles.
Southeast Michigan is a global hub for many high-tech industries, and employers aggressively recruit Oakland’s Ph.D. students. Our graduates have an outstanding record in the job market, going directly into jobs in industries such as:
The Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering requires a minimum of 80 graduate credits, comprising at least 56 credits of graduate coursework and at least 24 credits of dissertation research.
You can choose to focus your studies in any of the following seven areas:
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