Electrical and Electronic Engineering is a well-established discipline that involves communications and control technology, the development and exploitation of electric power systems, the design and implementation of complex signal processing devices on computer platforms, robotics design, the application of modern instrumentation, and high-power electronics. Offered by our Department of Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering, this discipline is vital in ensuring the reliability and sustainability of upcoming generations of electricity transmission, industrial automation, communication infrastructure and electric vehicles.

Many students pursue this specialisation for its adaptability – the fundamental theories it provides lead to broad applications. Our faculty is also proud to be home to research leaders in many areas of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, including green and renewable energy, and wireless power transfer, which may someday lead to our ability to charge vehicles on-the-go in some cities.

Pursuing a PhD at our University gives you access to a high-calibre research community – you may have the opportunity to publish papers, attend international conferences and develop your network in academia and industry.

We welcome research proposals in topics relating to our key areas, including:

• Control systems, with wide applications such as modelling and control of bioprocesses, modelling and control of water treatment plants, Bit Stream implementation of controllers, nonlinear filtering design, and active fault-tolerant control of stochastic nonlinear dynamical systems
• Power electronics, with research focused on innovative technologies such as wireless charging of Electric Vehicles or mobile electronics, as well as green energy and biomedical applications
• Power systems, especially issues related to modern electrical power systems, from the integration of renewable energy, to electricity grids
• Electricity and society, with emphasis on electricity protection, economics (demand side participation, ancillary services, or volatility) of, or innovation (smart grids, storage, or large-scale Electric Vehicle integration)
• Signal processing, which aligns with our expertise in the acoustics of audio and speech, biometric analysis, hyperspectral processing, image processing, speech processing, speech recognition, and speech synthesis
• Telecommunications and electromagnetics, in areas such as high-performance indoor wireless system design, wireless communications, wireless sensor networks and localisation, radio system design and optimisation, computational electromagnetics, antennas, and microwave/millimetre wave communication