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Critical Courses

Thesis Track

For the Thesis Program, you must complete 30 credit hours of graduate coursework with a minimum 3.0 GPA. Courses include:

EECE 500
MCHE 508
3 credit hours of graduate courses from either the EECE department or another engineering department
12 hours of 500 and/or 400G level graduate courses in the EECE department; 6 of those credit hours must be two core department courses.

Your thesis must be approved by the graduate committee. To complete your thesis, you must have:

a minimum of 6 hours of thesis work,
a successful verbal defense of thesis material, and
a presentation of the thesis to a general audience that includes the thesis committee and graduate faculty.

For the non-thesis program, you must complete 36 credit hours of graduate coursework with a minimum 3.0 GPA. Courses include:

EECE 500
MCHE 508
6 credit hours of graduate courses from either the EECE department or another engineering department
18 hours of 500 and/or 400G level graduate courses in the EECE department; 6 of those credit hours must be two core department courses.
Two 3-credit-hour independent study courses over two consecutive semesters. These courses must be under the same major professor and you must produce a research report based on the independent study.

To graduate, you must have a satisfactory performance on the oral comprehensive exam.