The Ph.D. Qualifying Exams consist of two stages: a written exam and an oral exam. For the first stage—the written exam—the courses for which the student will be tested have been determined by unanimous decision of the faculty members in the department as follows:
- KOM5101 Intelligent Control Systems
- KOM5102 Digital Control System Design
- KOM5103 Mathematical Methods in Control Engineering
- KOM5106 System Analysis Techniques
- KOM5107 System Dynamics Modeling and Simulation
- KOM5108 Advanced Control Methods for Dynamic Systems
- KOM6104 Robust Control Systems
- KOM6105 Nonlinear Control System Design
- KOM6110 Machine Learning and Artificial Neural Networks
- KOM6203 System Theory
Doctoral students in the Control and Automation Engineering Department who are taking the doctoral qualifying exams will be responsible only for the courses in this pool and will be required to complete the written exam by answering 5 out of the 10 questions asked.
The date of the qualifying written exam is listed below:
- Written Exam Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2026
- Written Exam Time: 10:30 a.m.
- Written Exam Location: KOM Meeting Room
The oral qualifying exam, on the other hand, varies depending on each student’s schedule and is conducted in person.
- To pass the written portion, a student must score at least 70/100 on the written qualifying exam.
- A minimum score of 50/100 must be obtained on the oral proficiency exam.
- The written and oral exam sections each account for 50% of the total exam score.
- For a student to pass, the average of the written and oral qualifying exam scores must be at least 70/100.
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Graduate Education and Teaching Committee