MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (MSEE)
This program is designed for full and part time students desiring advanced study in electrical engineering. The program emphasizes advanced courses in computers, controls, communication, signal processing, and computer aided design of integrated circuits.
ADMISSION
Students with a BSEE and a minimum GPA in the last two years of their undergraduate program may be formally admitted to regular status. BSEE graduates with a GPA between 2.75 and 3.0 in their last two years may be conditionally admitted. Conditionally admitted students will be changed to regular status after they have completed four specified ECE classes that count toward the MSEE degree with an average GPA over the four courses of 3.25 and no grade in any of the four courses below B.
Students that have undergraduate degrees in technical areas such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science of engineering can be admitted but they will be required to complete the following course sequences before they can be formally admitted to regular status.
| Required | ECE 302 | Signal and Systems Analysis |
| Choose | ECE 311 and ECE 312 | Analog electronics sequence |
| Or | ECE 322 and ECE 323 | Digital electronics sequence |
| Choose | ECE 531, ECE 532* | Communication Systems |
| Two | ECE 551, ECE 552* | Control Systems |
| From | ECE 521, ECE 522 | Computer Architecture |
| Microcontroller System Design |
*ECE 532 or 552 can be replaced by ECE 571 Digital Signal Processing
The university requires that the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) be taken before admission. All international students are required to take the Test Of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Under normal circumstances a score of 550 on the TOEFL is required.
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
The student must select either the thesis, starred paper or course work only option shown below. The thesis, research paper topic, and/or the package of courses selected by an individual student must be approved, in advance, by the student's graduate committee. The courses chosen from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and from other departments must form a cohesive package that relates closely to the individual student goals.
Graduate (600) level ECE course sequences:
- ECE 631, 632 Digital Communications, Digital Coding of Waveforms
- ECE 621, 622 Advanced Computer Architecture, Parallel Computing
- ECE 651, 652 Optimal Control, Stochastic Control
- ECE 671, 672 Digital Signal Processing, Random Signal and Noise
- ECE 681, 682 Integrated Circuit, VLSI Design
Graduate Bulletin Program Description
DISQUALIFICATION
Students will be disqualified from the program if their semester GPA, in courses specified for their programs, is below 3.0 for any two semesters. Reinstatement requests will be considered by the student's advisory committee and the chairperson of the department.
