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MS in Electrical Engineering/Telecommunications Engineering

Plan of Study
For this program, a plan of study, with appropriate telecommunications-related technical content (as outlined below) must be approved by the graduate advisor, in consultation with the student’s research advisor (if applicable).  Full time students must file a plan of study with the graduate advisor before the end of the first quarter. Part-time students must file a plan of study with the graduate advisor by the end of the first year. The Plan of Study form is available at:

http://www.ece.drexel.edu/grad/plan_of_study_form.pdf

Degree Requirements
The MS Electrical Engineering/Telecommunications Engineering curriculum encompasses 45.0 or 48.0 (with the Graduate Co-op option) credits.

A total of at least 30.0 credits of graduate courses are required from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department.  With the remaining graduate credits, subject to the approval of the graduate advisor, students can take graduate course from electrical and computer engineering, mathematics, physics or other engineering disciplines. Students may also elect to take three credits in Telecommunications Policy and/or three credits in Telecommunications Management.

Students also may chose to complete a three credit project, which can either be theoretical or experimental, or to participate in six credits (6 months) of Graduate Co-op.

For more information, visit the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s web site.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Courses
Students select a minimum of 10 of the following courses:			30.0 Credits
ECEC 631	Principles of Computer Networking		3.0
ECEC 632	Performance Analysis of Computer Networks		3.0
ECEC 633	Advanced Topics in Computer Networking		3.0
ECES 511	Fundamentals of Systems I		3.0
ECES 512	Fundamentals of Systems II		3.0
ECES 513	Fundamentals of Systems III		3.0
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 DSP		3.0
ECES 632	Fundamentals of Statistical DSP		3.0
ECES 682	Fundamentals of Image Processing		3.0
Non-Engineering:
The following course dealing with the business and legal aspects of telecommunications is strongly recommended to students pursuing the major:
COM 650	Telecommunications Policy		3.0
Suggested Electives
The following list contains some suggested electives from the graduate offerings in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department. These courses allow students to choose specific focus are (for example, Microwave Systems, Signal Processing, Photonics Systems, Networking, etc.) depending on their career goals.
ECES 558	Digital Signal Processing for Sound & Hearing		3.0
ECES 559	Processing of the Human Voice		3.0
ECES 660	Machine Listening and Music Information Retrieval		3.0
ECEE 517	Microwave Networks and Transmission Media		3.0
ECEE 641	Fiber Optics and Optical Communications I		3.0
ECEE 522	Photonic Devices		3.0
ECEC 661	VLSI Design		3.0
ECEC 631	Principles of Computer Networking		3.0
Students may also choose other elective courses from the ECE graduate offerings and graduate offerings from the departments of Mathematics and Physics and the College of Engineering. Please note that ECEC 500 and ECEC 600 will not count towards the required courses for the degree in MS in Electrical Engineering/Telecommunications Engineering.