Degree Requirements
Candidates for the M.S. degree in Applied Physics & Electronics must successfully complete minimum of 35 credit hours. There are two streams of the program; a student should follow one of them:
Stream 1: M.S. by Course Work
Total 35 Credit Hours (minimum); Students of stream 1 must take the
following courses:
(a) Core Modules (18 Credits); these courses are compulsory.
Courses APE 511, APE 513, APE 515, APE 517, and APE 519 as described in subsection A.
(b) Elective Modules (17 Credits)
Any two courses (8 credits) from Group-I and three courses (9 credits) from Group-II described in subsection B.
Stream 2: M.S. by Course and a Research Project
Total 35 Credit Hours (minimum); Students of stream 2 must take the
following courses:
(a) Core Modules (18 Credits); these courses are compulsory.
Courses APE 511, APE 513, APE 515, APE 517, APE 519 as described in subsection A.
(b) Elective Modules (11 Credits)
Any two courses (8 credits) from Group-I and any one course (3 credits) from Group-II described in subsection B.
(c) Research Project (6 Credits)
APE 598 described in subsection C.
A. Core Modules
Students of both streams must take the following five courses (18 credits) as compulsory
| Course ID | Course Title | Credits |
| APE 511 | Quantum Mechanics | 3+0 |
| APE 513 | Condensed Matter Physics | 3+0 |
| APE 515 | Advanced Electronics | 3+1 |
| APE 517 | Modern Instrumentation | 3+1 |
| APE 519 | Communication Systems | 3+1 |
B. List of Elective/Optional Courses
The Elective/Optional courses are classified into two Groups (GROUP-I and GROUP-II). Courses in GROUP-I are four-credit courses with Lab and courses in GROUP-II are three-credit courses without Lab. A student of Stream-1 will have to take two courses (8 credits) from GROUP-I and three courses (9 credits) from GROUP-II while a student of Stream-2 will have to take two courses (8 credits) from GROUP-I and one course (3 credits) from GROUP-II.
| Course ID | Course Title | Credits |
| GROUP-I |
| APE 526 | Optoelectronics | 3+1 |
| APE 528 | IC Fabrication & VLSI Design | 3+1 |
| APE 531 | Digital Systems | 3+1 |
| APE 532 | Power Electronics | 3+1 |
| APE 536 | Computational Physics | 3+1 |
| APE 551 | Communications Networks | 3+1 |
| APE 553 | Optical Fiber Communications | 3+1 |
| APE 555 | Digital Signal & Image Processing | 3+1 |
| APE 556 | Microwave Engineering, Antennas & Propagation | 3+1 |
| APE 558 | High Speed Computer Networking | 3+1 |
| APE 575 | Medical Electronics | 3+1 |
| APE 577 | Biomedical Imaging | 3+1 |
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| GROUP-II |
| APE 521 | Theory of Semiconductor Devices | 3+0 |
| APE 522 | Physics & Technology of Advanced Materials | 3+0 |
| APE 523 | Electronic Materials | 3+0 |
| APE 534 | Laser Physics & Technology | 3+0 |
| APE 554 | Wireless & Mobile Communications | 3+0 |
| APE 557 | Intelligent Systems Engineering | 3+0 |
| APE 559 | Quantum Computations | 3+0 |
| APE 571 | Molecular Biophysics | 3+0 |
| APE 573 | Biomedical Engineering | 3+0 |
| APE 581 | Environmental & Atmospheric Physics | 3+0 |
| APE 583 | Plasma Physics | 3+0 |
| APE 585 | Astrophysics & Cosmology | 3+0 |
| APE 587 | Geophysics | 3+0 |
C. Research Project
This course is compulsory only for students of Stream-2. The student should register this course at the beginning of her/his second semester.
| Course ID | Course Title | Credits |
| APE 598 | Research Project | 6 |
D. Prerequisite Courses
A student may be required to take one or more pre-requiste course/courses listed below for making up deficiency when it deems necessary by the course
advisor. The credit will not be counted for the degree requirement of the student; these are non-credit courses:
| Course ID | Course Title | Credits |
| APE 501 | Computer Programming | 3+1 |
| APE 504 | Microprocessors & Computer Organization | 3+1 |
| APE 505 | Classical Mechanics | 3+0 |
| APE 506 | Electromagnetic Theory | 3+0 |
| APE 507 | Fundamentals of Modern Physics | 3+0 |
| APE 508 | Statistical & Thermal Physics | 3+0 |
| APE 509 | Basic Solid State Physics | 3+0 |
Program Plan