Arts, Media and Engineering
Faculty Involved: Andreas Spanias (Associate Director, AME)
G. Qian, L. Karam, T. Rodriguez, A. Papandreou-Suppappola
The Department of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University in collaboration with the Herberger College of Fine Arts (HFCA) has established a concentration in Arts, Media and Engineering. This concentration is available both for the M.S. and the Ph.D. programs (not available for M.S.E or M.Eng.). Students admitted in this program take two-thirds of their course, research, and thesis credits from the Department of Electrical Engineering and one-third of the credits from the Arts, Media and Engineering program.
Philosophy of the AME Concentration and Research
The Arts, Media and Engineering program (AME, http://ame.asu.edu ) represents an ambitious interdisciplinary research community at ASU that is focused on the parallel development of media hardware, software, content, and theory. The AME is a joint effort of the Herberger College of Fine Arts (HCFA) and of the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. AME research addresses the discontinuum that exists between media content and media technologies, through a paradigm shift in media and arts training. The objective is to produce a new kind of hybrid graduate students who draw their creativity from the arts and their methodology from engineering sciences. AME trains students to integrate principles of DSP and multimedia computing with artistic ideas and objectives, with the goal of enabling new paradigms of human-machine experience that directly address societal needs and facilitate knowledge.
Admission Requirements
Master's programs (M.S.)
Students from ABET-accredited undergraduate programs who wish to be considered for a master's program must have a minimum GPA of 3.0 (on a four-point scale) in the last two years of undergraduate course work.
Students from undergraduate programs that are not accredited by ABET must have a minimum GPA of 3.5 (on a four-point scale) in the last two years of undergraduate course work or have graduated first class with distinction and must score in the 90th percentile or higher on the Quantitative section of the GRE General Test.
Ph.D. program
Applicants with a master's degree who wish to be considered for the Ph.D. program must have a minimum GPA of 3.5 (on a four-point scale) in their master's program.
Applicants without a master's degree must have a minimum GPA of 3.6 (on a four-point scale) in the last two years of undergraduate course work and have graduated from an ABET-accredited undergraduate program.
Application Procedures
Students who wish to pursue the AME concentration should review the application requirements at http://ame.asu.edu/education/apply.html before submitting an application for either the M.S. or Ph.D. degree program.
1) All applicants must submit the following to the Division of Graduate Studies Admissions Office:
- An application form
- Application fee
- Transcripts
Application materials and guidelines are available from the Division of Graduate Studies admissions Web site.
2) International students:
Applicants whose native language is not English must demonstrate proficiency in the English language by scoring at least 550 on the written Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or 213 on the computerized TOEFL. International students seeking teaching assistantships must demonstrate proficiency in spoken English by scoring at least 50 on the Test of Spoken English (TSE).
3) Applicants should submit materials that reflect the hybrid nature of the arts/engineering degree.
Deadlines
The deadline for spring admission is August 31, and the deadline for fall admission is January 31. Application decisions will be made after that time. Once the application is processed, Graduate Admissions will notify the applicant of the decision.
EE COURSES FOR THE AME CONCENTRATION
Students can take courses from the following EE subjects to satisfy the EE portion of the AME concentration. Other EE courses could be taken with the approval of the AME concentration advisor.
EEE 407 – Digital Signal Processing
EEE 455 – Communication Systems
EEE 459 – Communication Networks
EEE 480 – Controls Systems
EEE 506 – Digital Spectral Analysis
EEE 505 – Time-varying Signal Processing
EEE 507 – Multidimensional Signal Processing
EEE 508 – Digital Image Processing and Compression
EEE 550 – Transform Theory and Applications
EEE 551 – Information Coding Theory
EEE 552 – Digital Communications
EEE 553 – Coding and Cryptography
EEE 554 – Random Signal Theory
EEE 555 – Modeling and Performance Analysis
EEE 556 – Detection and Estimation Theory
EEE 558 – Wireless Communications
EEE 581 – Filtering and Stochastic Processes
EEE 606 – Adaptive Signal Processing
EEE 607 – Speech Coding for Multimedia Communications
AME COURSES FOR THE AME CONCENTRATION
AME and EE Thesis/Research Credits (M.S.)
EEE 592 – EE Research
EEE 599 – EE Thesis
AME 592 – AME Research
AME 599– AME Thesis
AME and EE Dissertation/Research Credits (Ph.D.)
EEE 792 – Research
EEE 799 – Dissertation
AME 792 – Research
AME 799 – Dissertation
AME COURSE OF STUDY INFORMATION
Tentative EE Plans of Study
M.S. – AME concentration
Ph.D.– AME concentration