南卫理公会大学莱尔工程学院

In addition to meeting the Lyle School of Engineering degree requirements for an M.S. degree, candidates are required to satisfy the following:

• Either 24 credit hours of coursework and a master’s thesis or 30 credit hours of coursework.
• Twelve credit hours of core courses. Students on campus are required to register for a seminar course (for zero credit hours of credit) for at least one term and secure a grade of Pass.
• Six credit hours of concentration. Thesis students take six credit hours of thesis, instead of concentration.
• Twelve credit hours of electives. All students are allowed to take at most three credit hours of independent study, which will be counted as one elective course.

The ECE Department requires that the courses taken constitute a coherent program leading to mastery in computer engineering. These requirements are discussed in the subsequent subsections. Any deviation from the stated requirements must be approved in writing from the student’s adviser and department chair.

Course Requirements

A student who elects to take the nonthesis option must take 12 credit hours of core courses, six credit hours of concentration and 12 credit hours of electives. The electives may be selected from available graduate-level course offerings in the Lyle School of Engineering, subject to the residency and level requirements and adviser approval. Those who elect to take the thesis option will substitute the concentration with thesis credit hours.

Core Courses
CS 7344 - Computer Networks and Distributed Systems II
ECE 7381 - Digital Computer Design
ECE 7385 - Microcontroller Architecture and Interfacing
ECE 7387 - Digital Systems Design

Concentration (6 credit hours in one of the following programs)

Architecture:
Two of the following:
CS 8377/ECE 8379 - Fault-Tolerant Computing
CS 8380 - Parallel and Distributed Processing
CS 8383 - Advanced Computer Architecture
ECE 7385 - Microcontroller Architecture and Interfacing

Design Automation:
Two of the following:
CS 7380 - VLSI Algorithms
CS 8377/ECE 8379 - Fault-Tolerant Computing
CS 8387/ECE 8387 - Switching Theory and Applications in VLSI CAD
ECE 7387 - Digital Systems Design

Networking:
Two of the following:

CS 7348 - Internetworking Protocols and Programming
CS 7349/ECE 7349 - Data and Network Security
CS 8344 - Computer Networks
CS 8349 - Advanced Network and System Security

Electives
Electives may be selected from available graduate-level course offerings in the Lyle School of Engineering, subject to the residency and level requirements and adviser approval.