Practice Problems for the ECE Ph.D. Qualifying Exams (QE)
with student solutions and feedback
Past Exam Problems
- Automatic Control
- Question 1: Feedback Control Systems
- Question 2: Linear Time-Invariant and Time-Varying Systems: A State Space Approach
- Question 3: Optimization
- Biomedical Imaging and Sensing
- Communications and Signal Processing
- Question 1: Probability and Random Processes
- Question 2: Signal Processing
- Question 3: Communications
- Question 4: Networking
- Question 5: Image Processing
- Computer Engineering
- Question 1: Algorithms
- Question 2: Compilers
- Question 3: Artificial Intelligence
- Question 4: Architecture
- Question 5: Computer Network Systems
- Question 6: Operating Systems
- Fields and Optics
- Question 1: Statics 1
- Question 2: Dynamics 1 : Propagation, transmission and radiation
- Question 3: Dynamics 2 : Time Varying Fields and Maxwell's Equations
- Microelectronics and Nanotechnology
- Question 1: Semiconductor Fundamentals
- Question 2: Junction Devices
- Question 3: Field Effect Devices
- Power and Energy Devices and Systems (formerly Energy Sources and Systems)
- Question 1: Energy Conversion and Reference Frame Theory
- Question 2: Electric Machinery (Induction, PM, Wound-Rotor Synchronous)
- Question 3: Power Electronics and Electric Drives
- VLSI and Circuit Design
- Question 1: Transistor Level Design
- Question 2: Combinational and Sequential Logic
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