Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

45.0 - 48.0 quarter credits

The Master of Science in Electrical Engineering curriculum encompasses 45.0 or 48.0 (with the Graduate Co-op option) approved credit hours, chosen in accordance with the following requirements and a plan of study arranged with the departmental graduate advisor in consultation with the student’s research advisor, if applicable. Before the end of the first quarter in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, for a full-time student, or by the end of the first year for a part-time student, said plan of study must be filed and approved with the departmental graduate advisor.

A total of at least 30.0 credit hours must be taken from among the graduate course offerings of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. These credits must be taken at Drexel University. No transfer credit may be used to fulfill these requirements, regardless of content equivalency.

Students completing an MS in Electrical Engineering must choose to complete the requirements for one of the five concentrations offered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The required departmental credit hours must be broken down into the following manner based on the chosen concentration.

(*Scroll down to below the concentration courses for an explanation of the options for fulfilling the additional 15.0 credit hours).

Electrophysics Concentration
Required courses:
ECEE	Electrophysics courses (ECEE courses)			18.0
	General Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECEC, ECEE, ECEP, ECES, ECET) courses			12.0
Controls, Robotics, Intelligent Systems Concentration
Required courses:
ECES 511	Fundamentals in Systems I			3.0
ECES 512	Fundamentals in Systems II			3.0
ECES 521	Probability and Random Variables			3.0
ECES 522	Random Process and Spectral Analysis			3.0
	General Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECEC, ECEE, ECEP, ECES, ECET) courses			9.0
To meet the requirements of this concentration, students select three (3) of the following courses:
ECES 604	Optimal Estimation and Stochastic Control			3.0
ECES 642	Optimal Control			3.0
ECES 644	Computer Control Systems			3.0
ECES 651	Intelligent Control			3.0
ECES 817	Non-Linear Control Systems			3.0
ECES 818	Machine Learning/Adaptive Control			3.0
Power Engineering
Required courses:
ECEP 501	Power System Analysis			3.0
ECEP 502	Computer Analysis Power Systems			3.0
ECEP 503	Synchronous Machine Modeling			3.0
	General Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECEC, ECEE, ECEP, ECES, ECET) courses			15.0
To meet the requirements of this concentration, students select one of the following two sequences:
ECES 511	Fundamentals in Systems I			3.0
ECES 512	Fundamentals in Systems II			3.0
or
ECES 521	Probability and Random Variables			3.0
ECES 522	Random Process and Spectral Analysis			3.0

Signal/Image Processing
Required courses:
ECES 521	Probability and Random Variables			3.0
ECES 522	Random Process and Spectral Analysis			3.0
ECES 523	Detection and Estimation Theory			3.0
ECES 631	Fundamentals of Deterministic Digital Signal Processing			3.0
ECES 682	Fundamentals of Image Processing			3.0
	General Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECEC, ECEE, ECEP, ECES, ECET) courses			15.0
Non-designated Specialization
Required courses:
	Three 3-course departmental sequences**			27.0
	General Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECEC, ECEE, ECEP, ECES, ECET) courses			3.0
**Students should check with the departmental graduate advisor for more information about these sequences.
*Additional Requirements/Options			15.0
With the remaining required 15.0 credit hours, students may take graduate coursework, subject to the approval of the departmental graduate advisor, in electrical and computer engineering, mathematics, physics or other engineering disciplines.
Although not required, students are encouraged to complete a Master’s Thesis as part of the MS studies. Those students who choose the thesis option may count up to 9.0 research/thesis credits as part of their required credit hour requirements.
Students may choose to participate in the Graduate Co-Op Program, where 6.0 credit hours can be earned for a six month co-operative education experience in industry, working on curriculum related projects. The total number of required credit hours is increased to 48.0 for those students who choose to pursue the Graduate Co-Op option. This change represents an increase in non-departmental required credit hours to a total of 18.0 credit hours, 6.0 of which are earned from the co-operative education experience. Please note that ECEC 500 (Fundamentals of Computer Hardware) and ECEC 600 (Fundamentals of Computer Networks) do not count toward the credit requirements to complete the MS in Electrical Engineering degree program. For more information on curricular requirements, visit the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s web site.