Graduate Concentration in Microelectronics and Advanced Semiconductors

The Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering offers a concentration in microelectronics and advanced semiconductors for ECE graduate students.

Required courses: To earn the concentration, students must complete the following coursework:

  • Three credits from the core courses list below
  • An additional 6 credit hours from the additional courses list below

Focus areas: This concentration has these three focus areas; students can take courses from multiple focus areas to meet the concentration requirements:

  • Circuit Design (CD)
  • Devices and Manufacturing (DM)
  • System Design (SD)

Plan of study: ECE graduate students should include the concentration on their plan of study. The concentration is then listed on the student’s Purdue transcript.

If you have already submitted your plan of study, you can submit a revision to add the concentration.

For additional information: Contact Matt Golden or Lynn Hegewald.

 

Core courses (3 credits required):

Course

Credits

Focus Area

ECE 55900 - MOS VLSI Design

3

CD, SD

ECE 60600 - Solid State Devices I

3

DM

All of the following:

3 (1 credit each)

DM

 

Additional courses (6 credits required):

 

Course Credits Focus Area
ECE 50616 - Physics and Manufacturing of Solar Cells 3 DM
ECE 50631 - Fundamentals of Current Flow 1 Core, DM
ECE 50632 - Introduction to Quantum Transport 1 DM
ECE 50633 - Boltzmann Law: Physics to Machine Learning 1 DM
ECE 51216 - Digital Systems Design Automation 3 SD
ECE 51220 - Applied Algorithms 3 SD
ECE 52600 - Fundamental of BioMEMS and Micro-Integrated Systems 3 DM
ECE 55200 - Introduction to Lasers 3 CD
ECE 55700 - Integrated Circuit/MEMS Fabrication Laboratory 3 DM
ECE 55900 - MOS VLSI Design 3 Core, CD, SD
ECE 56500 - Computer Architecture 3 SD
ECE 56800 - Embedded Systems 3 SD
ECE 59500 - Advanced Lithography 1 DM
ECE 59500 - Applied Quantum Computing I-Fundamentals 1 DM, CD
ECE 59500 - Applied Quantum Computing II-Hardware 1 DM, CD
ECE 59500 - Applied Quantum Computing III-Algorthm and Software 1 DM, CD
ECE 59500 - CMOS Analog IC Design 3 CD
ECE 59500 - Data Analysis, Design of Experiments and Machine Learning 1 DM, CD, SD
ECE 59500 - Fundamentals of Transistors 1 Core, CD
ECE 59500 - Introduction to Electronics Packaging and Heterogeneous Integration 3 DM, CD, SD
ECE 59500 - MEMS I: Microfabrication and Materials for MEMS 1 DM, CD
ECE 59500 - MEMS II: Fundamentals of MEMS Design 1 DM, CD
ECE 59500 - MEMS III: Applications in MEMS 1 DM, CD
ECE 59500 - Microfabrication Fundamentals 1 DM
ECE 59500 - Semiconductor Fundamentals 1 Core, DM
ECE 59500 - Semiconductor Manufacturing 1 DM
ECE 60420 - Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits 3 CD
ECE 60422 - Primer on RF Circuit Design 1 CD
ECE 60423 - RF System Design 1 CD
ECE 60424 - RF Design: Passive/Active Components 1 CD
ECE 60600 - Solid State Devices I 3 Core, DM
ECE 60614 - Reliability Physics of Nanoelectronic Transistors 3 DM
ECE 60645 - High-speed Semiconductor Devices 3 DM
ECE 61200 - Advanced VLSI Devices (Nanoscale Transistors) 3 DM
ECE 65400 - Solid-State Devices II 3 DM, CD
ECE 65600 - Electronic Transport in Semiconductors 3 DM
ECE 65800 - Semiconductor Material and Device Characterization 3 DM
ECE 68800 - VLSI Testing and Verification 3 CD, SD
ECE 69500 - Advanced Internet of Things Design and Applications 3 SD
ECE 69500 - Advanced VLSI Design 3 CD
ECE 69500 - Flexible and Stretchable Electronics 3 DM
ECE 69500 - High-Speed Mixed Signal IC 3 CD
ECE 69500 - Quantum Circuits and Systems 1 SD
ECE 69500 - System-on-chip Design 3 SD