Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Curriculum

The curriculum consists of fifty hours of credit beyond the M.S. degree. The student must fulfill the fifty credit hours requirement as follows:

• Eighteen hours of 500-level ECE courses, of which nine hours must be taken from the selected core

• Six hours of mathematics or three hours of mathematics and three hours science, approved by the student’s Committee

• Two hours of graduate seminar (ECE 580)

• Twenty-four hours of doctoral dissertation (ECE 600)

Core courses successfully completed for the M.S. degree can be used to fulfill the core requirements, but additional courses must be taken to satisfy the requirement of eighteen hours of 500-level ECE courses beyond the M.S. degree.

The objective of the core is to provide the candidate with the foundation necessary to engage successfully in the selected research area. Thus, the core design fulfills the research tool requirement specified in the Graduate School guidelines.