Course Work Option

The program (course work option) consists of thirty-three credit hours:

1. At least three hours selected from Computer Engineering Core Foundation Courses.
2. At least three hours selected from Elective Concentration Areas Foundation Courses.
3. A minimum of twelve hours of courses selected from the Computer Architecture and Digital Design concentration area.
4. A minimum of nine hours of courses selected from one of the four concentration areas: 
   -Power Electronics and Systems
   -Communications and Signal Processing
   -Control Systems
   -Circuit and System Design.
5. The remaining elective hours of additional graduate courses may be selected from any listed ECE courses, or from the list of graduate courses approved by the department from the following disciplines: computer, electrical, other engineering disciplines, computer science, mathematics, or physics.

Thesis Option

The program (thesis option) consists of thirty credit hours:

1. At least three hours selected from Computer Engineering Core Foundation Courses.
2. At least three hours selected from Elective Concentration Areas Foundation Courses.
3. A minimum of twelve hours of courses selected from the Advanced Computer Architecture and Digital Design concentration area.
4. The remaining elective hours of additional graduate courses may be selected from any listed ECE courses, or from a list of graduate courses approved by the department from the following disciplines: computer, electrical, other engineering disciplines, computer science, mathematics, or physics
5. Six hours of Master’s Thesis

• ECE 7000- Master’s Thesis   Credits:  6 hours

Computer Engineering Core Foundation Courses

• ECE 5150 - Real-Time Computing Credits: 3 hours
• ECE 5510 - Application Specific Integrated Circuit Design Credits: 3 hours
• ECE 5520 - Switching and Finite Automata Theory Credits: 3 hours
• ECE 5530 - Microcontroller Applications Credits: 3 hours
• ECE 5570 - Design of Reconfigurable Digital Machines Credits: 3 hours
• ECE 5950 - Introduction to Advanced Topics Credits: 3 hrs.

• Topic: Digital Electronics

Elective Concentration Areas Foundation Courses

• ECE 5550 - Digital Signal Processing Credits: 3 hours
• ECE 5710 - State Space Control Systems Credits: 3 hours
• ECE 5800 - System Modeling and Simulation Credits: 3 hours

Concentration Areas

Other Courses

• ECE 5600 - Time-Varying Fields Credits: 3 hours
• ECE 5900 - Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar Credits: 1 hour
• ECE 5950 - Introduction to Advanced Topics Credits: 3 hrs.

• Topic: Virtual Reality Technologies

• ECE 6360 - Applied Optics and Optical System Design Credits: 3 hrs.
• ECE 6950 - Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering Credits: 3 hrs.

• Topics: Modeling and Simulation II or Projects in Virtual Reality

• ECE 6970 - Problems in Electrical and Computer Engineering Credits: 1-6 hrs.
• ECE 6990 - Practical Training Credits: 1-2 hours