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Combined B.S. /M.S. Degree
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Purpose of the program

The combined BS/MS program in Electrical and Computer Engineering enables especially well-qualified students to be admitted to the MS program during the junior year of their BS program, and to work thereafter towards both the BS and MS degrees. These students would earn the BS degree in either Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and the MS degree in Electrical Engineering following the current curricula. This program allows for early planning of the MS portion of the student's education, taking graduate courses as part of the BS degree, more flexibility in the order in which courses are taken, and more efficient use of what would otherwise be a final semester with a light credit hour load.

Due to the tighter coordination of courses within the ECE Department than is possible for students who come to UW from other institutions to pursue the MS degree, up to six credit hours may be counted toward both the BS and MS degree programs (see Overlapping Credit below).

Admission to the program

Application for admission into the BS/MS program in the ECE department may be made at any time during or after the student enters his or her junior year. Minimum requirements for admission to the joint program are:

    1. completion of the five core EE courses (see list below),
    2. a minimum overall GPA of 3.40,
    3. a minimum GPA of 3.25 in ECE department courses, and
    4. at least three letters of recommendation must be provided by the applicant (at least two must be from ECE faculty at UW).

Transfer students, in place of requirement (1) above, must have taken at least two of the core EE courses at UW and have completed coursework at another institution (or other institutions) which is approved for transfer credit equivalent to all EE core courses not taken on the UW campus, and must have completed at least 15 credit hours of total courses at UW in order to qualify for admission.

Staying in the program

The student must maintain a GPA of at least 3.25 over all undergraduate courses taken, and a GPA of at least 3.0 in all graduate courses taken in order to remain in good standing in the program.

Regulations

Until a student in this program reaches a total of 132 credit hours of courses applicable to the BS degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering taken and passed (each with a grade of C or better), he/she will be governed by the rules and regulations applicable to any undergraduate student in the ECE department unless specified otherwise in the regulations described herein. After a student has accumulated a total of 132 applicable credit hours, he/she will be governed by the rules and regulations applicable to any graduate student in the ECE department unless specified otherwise in the regulations described herein. It is the intention of the department that, as far as possible, a student in this program is treated on the same basis as any other student in the department at a comparable stage of his/her academic career.

Overlapping Credit

With the recommendation of the student's academic advisor and the approval of the ECE Graduate Coordinator, as many as 6 credit hours of ECE department courses at the 5000 level or above may be counted both towards the undergraduate degree requirements and to the requirements for the MS degree. In theory, therefore, the minimum number of credit hours required for the BS/MS degree will be 156.

Advising

Students in the joint BS/MS program must have a faculty advisor with whom they will consult to compose a degree plan, including a list of courses to be taken from the senior year through the end of the program. This plan must be filed with the ECE Department Student Coordinator by the end of midterm of the first semester in which the student has been admitted into the program. The student in collaboration with the faculty advisor will determine whether the masters program will be either Plan A or Plan B.

EE Core Courses

    EE 2220 Circuits & Signals
    EE 3220 Signals &Systems
    EE 3310 Intro to Electronics
    EE 2390 Digital Systems
    EE 3150 Electromagnetics

For further information, contact the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at (307) 766-2279, or e-mail at ece@uwyo.edu


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