2. Where to Find Us
801 22nd St NW Room 607
(202) 994-6083
When We Are There
Fall and Spring Semester
Office Hours: 9am-5pm
ECE Department
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Dr. Suresh Subramaniam
Acting Chairman
3. Diane Hoover
801 22nd St NW Suite 608
(202) 994-5934
dghoover@gwu.edu
Graduate Coordinator
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4. Who Should I Contact About…?
Your Academic Advisor
•All academic advising
•Research interests
•Selection of courses
•Signature for paper
registrations and ISO
forms
•Transfer credits
Your Grad Coordinator
•All admissions
paperwork
•All registration forms
•All paperwork requiring
dept chair signature
•All other paperwork
signed by advisor
•OPT and CPT letters
•Everything else…
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5. Electrical Engineering (MS & PhD)
Electrical Power and Energy
Communications and Networks
Signal and Image Processing Systems & Controls
Electromagnetics Radiation Systems & Microwave Engineering
Computer Engineering (MS & PhD)
Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing
Microelectronics & VLSI Systems
Telecommunications Engineering (MS only)
No focus area
Graduate Certificate
High Performance Computing
Learn more about the ECE degree programs for Graduate & Ph.D. students
Fields of Study & Areas of Focus
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6. You must be registered for each semester (fall and spring) until the
semester you graduate.
See the Registrar’s website for policies on registration each
semester.
For Research Courses
You must complete
•A Registration Transaction Form (RTF, not the EZ) and
•A Research Course Request Form
These need to be signed by your advisor and the department
chairman.
Registration for Classes
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7. Colloquium/ Seminar Requirements
The ECE Department requires that students attend 5
colloquium/seminars during the course of their graduate programs.
Graduate students only need to register once for ECE 6065
and not every semester, and may attend any seminar given by
any department.
Ph.D. Students: Preliminary Exam & Dissertation Research
Ph.D. students in the ECE Department are required to take the
preliminary exam before they complete 18 credit hours of course work
and have a doctoral studies GPA of 3.4 or better. After passing the
exam, the student may then begin their dissertation research.
More information about the ECE doctoral program degree
requirements
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8. In the ECE Department, you have two different options to obtain
your degree.
Thesis: this requires that a student take 24 credit hours of course
work and 2-3 credit hour sessions of thesis research for a total of
30 credit hours.
Non-thesis option: this requires that the student takes 10-3 credit
hour courses for a total of 30 credit hours.
Talk to your academic advisor about your choice.
More information about the Master’s Program degree
requirements
Two Options in the MS Program:
Thesis or Non-Thesis
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9. The ECE Department requires the submission of a
paper to a refereed journal and its acceptance for
publication prior to the completion of degree
requirements.
Credit must be given in the publication to the fact that
the material is abstracted, summarized, or developed
from a dissertation submitted to GWU in partial
fulfillment of the requirements for the PhD degree.
For Ph.D. Students: ECE
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11. Graduate Student Bulletin
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
ECE Social Media
https://facebook.com/ecegwu
https://twitter.com/ecegwu
Office of the Registrar
Resources for Students
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