CURRICULUM
Minimum of 26 semester hours of course work, including 2 hours of seminar, and 24 semester hours of dissertation research is required. The course work must be completed in 2 areas: area of concentration and program core. A student must complete a minimum of 15 hours of course work relevant to an area of concentration. The course work in the area of concentration is intended to provide depth in the student's area of research. The program core consists of 11 hours of course work. A dissertation must be completed in the student's areas of research interest with the approval of the dissertation committee.
Program Core
The program core consists of 11 hours of course work: 6 hours in math, 3 hours in engineering or science and 2 hours of seminar. The math courses to choose from are: all 400 and 500, except MATH 400, 411, 412, 458, 480, 483, 511, 512, 513, and 516. The engineering courses to choose from are: ENGR 530 - Engineering Data Acquisition: Theory and Practice, ENGR 540 - Design of Engineering Experiments, ENGR 545 - Advanced Numerical Methods in Engineering, ENGR 521 - Probability and Stochastic Processes for Engineers. The science course could be any 400 or 500 level course in Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry or Geology, as approved by the student's advisor. The seminar course, ENGR 580, must be taken in two separate semesters, each time as one-hour course.
Guide for Core and Concentration Courses
- Only two 400-level courses (typically 6 hours) can be counted towards the minimum required 26 semester hours of course work.
- Special Investigation course can be taken under ENGR 590 - Special Investigations in Engineering Science, and only 3 hours can be counted towards the minimum required 26 semester hours of course work.
- Students with M.S. degree in Physics must take at least 9 hours of ENGR courses, one of which can be ENGR 590.
- Students with M.S. degree in Physics from SIUC can substitute PHYS 500A and 500B - Mathematical Physics for six hours of math requirement in program core.
- Transfer credit will normally be given for some of the graduate level courses suitable to the program upon review by the college Ph.D. Committee. Proficiency examinations may be authorized by the committee for areas in which questions of transfer credit arise. No credit will be given for industrial experience. A maximum of six hours of course work can be transferred in all cases due to residency requirement, which states that every student must complete at least 24 semester hours of approved course work at SIUC prior to taking the candidacy examination. Of the 24 hours, only 6 hours can be dissertation (ENGR 600) hours before candidacy.
- A student transferring credits from a master program must have earned those credits over and above the required course work to obtain the M.S. degree in his/her institution. Credit cannot be transferred from master degrees obtained from international institutions.
