PhD Qualifying Examination in Electrical and Computer Engineering
General Information
The doctoral qualification exam consists of two parts, written and oral. The candidate is considered successful if he/she passes both parts.
The dates of the doctoral qualifying exam are announced in the autumn and spring semesters and the details are announced to the students.
In order to take the exam, the candidate must get the approval of his/her advisor and submit a petition to the department before the announced date. In the petition, the candidate must specify four (4) undergraduate and two (2) graduate courses (one of which must be related to your thesis topic) in the PhD qualifying exam.
In case of failure in the doctoral qualifying exam, the candidate is given a second chance for the next exam period. Candidates who are not successful in the second attempt are dismissed from the doctoral programme.
If the candidate gets a grade of 80 and above from some of the undergraduate courses he / she has chosen about the first time, but his / her average is below 80 from all undergraduate courses, he / she can be exempted from the courses with a grade of 80 and above in the 2nd attempt if he / she wishes, but the grade he / she receives is not included in the average in the 2nd attempt (The student should indicate in his / her petition if there is a course he / she wants to be exempted).
Doctorate Proficiency Examination
The PhD Qualifying Examination consists of two parts: written exam and oral exam.
Written Examination
In the doctoral qualifying exam, you are required to select four (4) undergraduate and two (2) graduate courses (one of which is related to your thesis topic). The student must get at least eighty (80) points out of (100) from undergraduate courses and at least eighty (80) points out of (100) from graduate courses. Following the written exam, there will be an oral exam where your competence in your research field will be questioned, and you must score at least eighty (80) points out of one hundred (100) in the oral exam.
Graduate fields (Speciality Area) Undergraduate subjects / courses (Core Area)
- Biomedical - Electrical circuits
- Bioinformatics - Electronics
- Optics and photonics - Electromagnetic field theory
- Nanotechnology - Control theory
- Power systems - Signals and systems
- Electrical machines - Energy Systems
- Power electronics - Digital systems
- Control Systems - Object oriented programming
- Communication networks - Data structures and algorithms
- Microelectronics - Operating systems
- Wireless networks - Computer organisation
- Machine learning - Formal languages and automata theory
- Computer architecture - Computer networks
- Signal processing - Network Security
-Image Processing - High Voltage Technique
-Nonlinear Systems - Electromechanical Energy Conversion
- Cyber security and Cryptography
- Robotics
- Antennas and Electromagnetic
- Biosensors
- Computational Genomics
- Data mining
- Pattern Recognition
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Oral Examination
The candidate is obliged to answer the questions posed by the jury. The jury measures the competence of the student from different subjects and fields related to the basic field, specialisation and research topic.
