Accelerated Graduate Pathway: Electrical Engineering

Accelerated Graduate Pathway code: NDAG15

Russ College of Engineering and Technology  
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, School of    
Stocker Center 171
Athens, OH 45701
740.593.1492
www.ohio.edu/engineering/eecs

Avinash Karanth, Department Chair
karanth@ohio.edu

Program Overview

The Accelerated Graduate Pathway: Electrical Engineering provides outstanding graduate students in Electrical Engineering and Cybersecurity Engineering the opportunity to make simultaneous progress towards both the Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or the Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity Engineering and a graduate degree in engineering. Undergraduate students admitted to the Pathway can take up to 16 credit hours of coursework towards a graduate degree, applying up to 9 credit hours of specified coursework towards the Bachelor of Science as well. Electrical Engineering and Cybersecurity Engineering undergraduates commonly use this pathway to complete some coursework towards the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MS Thesis track or MS Non-Thesis track) or the Doctor of Philosophy: Specialization in Electrical Engineering while enrolled as undergraduates.

Admissions Information

Electrical Engineering students (BS7245) will be eligible to apply for conditional admission to the AGP after completing 66.5 credit hours; students will be eligible to enroll in courses after completing 82.5 credit hours of courses in the EECS curriculum.

Cybersecurity Engineering students (BS7478) will be eligible to apply for conditional admission to the AGP after completing 63.5 credit hours; students will be eligible to enroll in courses after completing 79.5 credit hours of courses in the EECS curriculum.

Application is limited to students who:

1. Are in the Electrical Engineering (BS7245) program or in the Cybersecurity Engineering (BS7478) program.
2. Have completed the first 6 semesters of the BS program curriculum, including:

• BSEE students (BS7245) students achieve a (C) grade or better in the required junior-level EE courses, which consist of EE3954 (Microcontrollers), EE3334 (Linear Signals & Systems), EE3214 (Emag. and Materials I), EE3713 (Applied Prob. & Stat.), EE3513 (Digital Signal Processing), EE3343 (Electronics I), and EE3223 (Emag. and Materials II); however no more than six (6) semester hours of grades at B-, C+, or C may be applied toward EEMS degree requirements.
• BSCSE students (BS7478) achieve a (C) grade or better in the required junior-level CSE courses, which consist of CS3000 (Introduction to Discrete Structures), CS3610 (Data Structures), CS3560 (Software Engineering Tools and Practices), EE3613 (Computer Organization), EE3343 (Electronics I), EE3713 (Applied Prob. & Stat.), EE3954 (Microcontrollers), MATH3070 (Number Theory), EE3753 (Computer Network), EE4773 (Foundation of Hardware Security); however no more than six (6) semester hours of grades at B-, C+, or C may be applied toward EEMS degree requirements.

 3. Have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.25 or a minimum GPA of 3.0 overall with 3.5 in the most recent 30 hours.

Opportunities Upon Graduation

As this program is specifically designed to allow students to take courses towards a graduate degree while enrolled as an undergraduate student, the expectation is that students will enroll in a graduate degree program after completing the Bachelor of Science. The Accelerated Graduate Pathway: Electrical Engineering facilitates more rapid completion of the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering or the Doctor of Philosophy: Specialization in Electrical Engineering. A student who takes full advantage of the pathway can typically complete the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MS Thesis track or MS Non-Thesis track) within one year after completing their Bachelor of Science.

Students may leave the AGP with a BSEE or BSCSE degree and not complete the MS degree, if they choose to do so, without any consequences. They will be awarded an accredited BS degree, and when they leave with a BS degree, they will have the same preparation and all the same career options as regular BS graduates. They can also leave the AGP during their BSEE or BSCSE degree without consequences. Any graduate-level course they complete will count toward their BS degree as an elective.

Requirements

Students may complete up to 16 hours of graduate-level coursework under the AGP; however, only three graduate courses for a maximum of 9 credit hours will be counted toward the respective BS programs. 

There are several dual-listed Technical Elective courses. Any graduate version of a course on the Technical Elective list can be used to count as a Technical Elective in the undergraduate degree requirements.

Students in the AGP involving BSEE can select from EE5XXX and CS5XXX graduate courses and 6XXX elective courses listed below:

• Elective courses students in the AGP may select from with department approval.
• EE 5003 Computational Tools for Engineers (3 credits)
• EE 5143 Design of Digital Circuits (3 credits)
• EE 5183 Micro and Nano Fabrication (3 credits)
• EE 5213 Feedback Control Theory (3 credits)
• EE 5313 Optoelectronics and Photonics (3 credits)
• EE 5323 Solar Cells and Photovoltaics (3 credits)
• EE 5403 Microwave Theory and Devices (3 credits)
• EE 5523 Introduction to Electric Power System Engineering and Analysis (3 credits)
• EE 5673 Embedded Systems (3 credits)
• EE 5683 Computer Architecture (3 credits)
• EE 5713 Communication Engineering (3 credits)
• EE 5773 Foundations of Hardware Security (3 credits)
• EE 5853 Electronic Navigation Systems (3 credits)
• EE 6033 Inertial Navigation Systems (3 credits)
• EE 6053 Satellite-Based Navigation Systems (3 credits)
• EE 6063 Integrated Navigation Systems (3 credits)
• EE 6103 Vehicle Control (3 credits)
• EE 6183 Nanoelectronics Devices and Applications (3 credits)
• EE 6333 Integrated Optoelectronics and Photonics (3 credits)
• EE 6633 Architecture of Parallel Computers (3 credits)
• EE 6663 Pattern Recognition (3 credits)
• EE 6673 Interconnect. Networks for High-Performance Computing Systems (3 credits)
• EE 6713 Digital Signal Processing (3 credits)
• EE 6743 Information Theory (3 credits)
• BME 5170 Data Mining With Applications in the Life Sciences (3 credits)
• CS 5000D Introduction to Discrete Structures (3 credits)
• CS 5060 Computation Theory (3 credits)
• CS 5120 Parallel Computing I (3 credits)
• CS 5150 Data Science
• CS 5160 Problem Solving with Bioinformatics Tools (3 credits)
• CS 5180 Statistical Foundation for Bioinformatics (3 credits)
• CS 5200D Organization of Programming Languages (3 credits)
• CS 5350 Fundamentals of Game Engine Design
• CS 5420 Operating Systems (3 credits)
• CS 5440 Data Communications (3 credits)
• CS 5610D Data Structures (3 credits)
• CS 5750 Internet Engineering (3 credits)
• CS 5800 Artificial Intelligence (3 credits)
• CS 5880 Game AI
• CS 6050 Parallel Computation Theory (3 credits)
• CS 6060 Computational Complexity (3 credits)
• CS 6120 Real Time Systems (3 credits)
• CS 6150 Computational Genomics (3 credits)
• CS 6250 Computer Graphics and Visualization (3 credits)
• CS 6410 Medical Image Analysis (3 credits)
• CS 6420 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (3 credits)
• CS 6440 Advanced Topics in Computer Networking (3 credits)
• CS 6571 Software Specification (3 credits)
• CS 6572 Software Design (3 credits)
• CS 6573 Software Implementation (3 credits)
• CS 6800 Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence (3 credits)
• CS 6820 Artificial Intelligence: Case-Based Reasoning (3 credits)
• CS 6830 Machine Learning (3 credits)
• CS 6840 Natural Language Processing (3 credits)
• CS 6850 Computer Vision (3 credits)
• CS 6860 Information Retrieval and Web Search (3 credits)
• CS 6880 Deep Reinforcement Learning
• CS 6890 Deep Learning (3 credits)
• CS 6040 Advanced Algorithms (3 credits)

Students in the AGP involving BSCSE can select from EE5XXX and CS5XXX graduate courses and 6XXX elective courses listed above. BSCSE students must select three technical electives from the following list or their graduate 5XXX version if available:

• EE 4673 / EE5673 Embedded Systems (3 credits)
• EE 4683 / EE 5683 Computer Architecture (3 credits)
• CS 4420 / CS5420 Operating Systems (3 credits)
• CS 4750 / CS5750 Internet Engineering (3 credits)
• ITS 4510 / ITS 5510 Network Security (4 credits)
• ITS 4530 / ITS 5530 Encrypted Communications (4 credits)
• ITS 4330 / ITS 5330 Compliance and Planning (4 credits)
• ITS 4310 / ITS 5310 Privacy (4 credits)