Academic Domains and Electives

In addition to the required core credit hours required for their major in ECE, students are required to take 24 hours of general education electives from the university and a set of technical/directed electives from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Electives / academic domains for electrical engineering majors

These electives include 16 hours of technical electives, which must include 6 hours in a single area of academic domains and 3 hours in each of at least two additional domain areas. These must include at least one 5000-level ECE technical elective and at least one lab.

The ECE department offers seven undergraduate academic domains for technical electives. These enable students to gain expertise and specialized knowledge and personalize their programs of study. The domains are:

• Communications and Digital Signal Processing
• Computers
• Control
• Electromagnetics
• Electronics
• Energy & Power
• Solid State Electronics and Photonics

Plan your electives wisely

Start planning your technical elective program early, while you're taking ECE 3020 during the autumn semester of your third year, to help ensure desired courses will be available when needed. Many technical electives must be taken in sequence. Usually sequences are only offered once each year.

For scheduling assistance, please make an appointment with one of our academic advisors.

Refer to the Undergraduate Handbook and ECE bingo sheets for complete information on all degree requirements.