A total of 45 approved graduate credits are required for the degree of Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. Appropriate courses in other graduate departments of engineering, science or mathematics may be included in these credits. However, a minimum of 30 credits must be taken in the Department of ECE to receive an MSEE. In consequence, no more than 15 quarter credits may be transferred from other institutions or other departments. These must be graduate courses which earned a grade of B or A and which were not used to earn a previous degree. Transfer credits must be approved by the ECE graduate advisor. Students who participate in Career Integrated Education (CIE) must complete 48 approved credits, including 6 credits of CIE.

Please note that ECEC 500 and ECEC 600 will not count towards the required 15 courses.

Plan of Study

Before the end of the first quarter in the ECE department, for a full-time student, or by the end of the first year for a part-time student, the student must file, a plan of study with the graduate advisor. The form can be found by going to http://www.ece.drexel.edu/grad/plan_of_study_form.pdf

The core requirements for various specialties are listed below:

Electrophysics - Choose 6 courses (18 credits) from the Electrophysics course list.
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Controls, Robotics, Intelligent Systems - required courses: ECE-S511, ECE-S512 and ECE-S521, ECE-S522. Choose 3 of the following 6 courses: ECE-S604, ECE-S642, ECE-S644, ECE-S651, ECE-S817, or ECE-S818.
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Power Engineering - ECE-S511, ECE-S512, or ECE-S521,
ECE-S522, AND ECE-P501, ECE-P502, and ECE-P503.
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Signal / Image Processing - ECE-S521, ECE-S522, ECE-S523, ECE-S631, ECE-S682.
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MSEE (No designated Specialization)

Students may also choose not to specialize in a specific area. In this case, the core requirements are to choose at least three of the sequences (9 courses) listed below:

• ECEP 501-503 (3 courses)

• ECES 511-513 (3 courses)

• ECES 521-523 (3 courses)

• ECEC 631-633 (3 courses)

• ECES 631-632 and S 684 (3 courses)

• ECES 641-643 (3 courses)

• ECEE 520-522 (3 courses)

• ECEE 6xx (3 courses)..to be decided

• ECET 511-513 (3 courses)

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