Academic
Catalog August 2009 - August 2010 Undergraduate
and Graduate
This program prepares you for professional practice with a broad, applied education with courses in several technical areas. With input from industry, Northern Arizona University in collaboration with the University of Arizona and Arizona State University have created courses to enhance and/or develop skills, knowledge, and understanding critical to today’s practicing engineers. We offer courses through a variety of forms, including distance-delivery methods and flexible formats. An important feature of this collaborative plan is that you may take advantage of course offerings at any of the three partner institutions, with minimal transfer limitations. These offerings reflect the diversity of strengths across the state, and we encourage you to develop your plan of study with this in mind. In addition, curricular tracks are being developed to make it easier for you to determine a suitable plan of study. Each curricular track has specific course requirements. Go to http://www.oneflexibledegree.com/ for detailed information about available curricular tracks and distance courses.
The M.Eng. curriculum requires 30 units as described below:
3 units Engineering management/business
3 units Advanced mathematics or statistics
24 units Electives
Please note the following apply to all master of engineering students in electrical engineering:
You take at least 10 units of coursework from your home institution. (You choose your home institution from among the three state universities when you apply for admission to the program.)
You are responsible for choosing the chair and members of your advisory committee before completing 9 units of coursework.
By the first month of the term in which you take your 10th unit of credit, you must submit a plan of study listing all coursework intended to satisfy the M.Eng. degree requirements. (This plan of study is subject to the approval of your advisory committee and the program director of your home institution.)
You may apply up to 6 units of credit from a practice-oriented project (EE 690) developed and conducted under your advisory committee’s guidance and focused on a problem of interest to the practicing engineering community.
You may apply up to two 400-level courses toward your degree (up to 8 units)
At least 15 units of coursework, not including the practice-oriented project, must be in engineering and 12 units must be in electrical engineering (which may include up to 3 units of EE 698)
Prior to graduation, you must satisfy the requirements of a capstone developed and administered by your advisory committee.
You must complete at least 24 hours of formal coursework, other than such individualized studies as independent study, directed readings, practice-oriented project and research.
Click here for the overall requirements of the M.Eng. program.
Click here for more information about Electrical Engineering graduate courses and faculty.