Masters Equivalent Coursework if Applicable (32 credit hours)
Students are often admitted to the PhD program with an applicable MS/MA and can proceed directly to Stage II; however, if you were admitted directly from a BS/BA degree, you will need to complete these 32 credit hours of MS coursework. The MS Equivalent coursework can be found in the PhD Degree Requirements.Advisor Agreement
PhD Students are required to select an advisor for their thesis research/dissertation. To get this process going, students should:
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- Decision and Control
- SE 320 (Control Systems)
- SE 424 (State Space Design for Control)
- SE 520 (Analysis of Nonlinear Systems – Crosslisted as ECE 528/ME 546/ECE 528)
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- Design and Manufacturing
- Choose 1 -- IE 513 (Optimal System Design) or SE 413 (Engineering Design Optimization)
- Choose 2 -- SE 410 (Component Design), SE 411 (Reliability Engineering), SE 412 (Nondestructive Evaluation), SE 450 (Decision Analysis I), SE 530 (Multiattribute Decision Making)
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- Operations Research
- IE 410 (Advanced Topics in Stochastic Processes & Applications)
- IE 411 (Optimization of Large Systems)
- Choose 1 -- IE 510 (Applied Nonlinear Programming), IE 511 (Integer Programming), IE 512 (Networking Analysis of Systems), or IE 521 (Convex Optimization)
- Study Materials
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