M.S.T.E. Program

Degree Requirements

The University's general degree requirements are discussed here.

The M.S.T.E. degree requires a minimum of 33 semester hours.

All students must have an academic adviser and an approved degree plan. Courses taken without adviser approval will not count toward the 33 semester-hour requirement. Successful completion of the approved course of studies leads to the M.S.T.E. degree.

The M.S.T.E. program has both a thesis and a non-thesis option. All part-time M.S.T.E. students will be assigned initially to the non-thesis option. Those wishing to elect the thesis option may do so by obtaining the approval of a faculty thesis supervisor.

All full-time, supported students are required to participate in the thesis option. The thesis option requires six semester hours of research, a written thesis submitted to the graduate school, and a formal public defense of the thesis. Research and thesis hours cannot be counted in a M.S.T.E. degree plan unless a thesis is written and successfully defended. The supervising committee administers this defense and is chosen in consultation with the student's thesis adviser prior to enrolling for thesis credit. Full-time students at UTD who receive financial assistance are required to enroll in 9 semester credit hours during the Fall, Spring and Summer semesters. Students enrolled in the thesis option should meet with individual faculty members to discuss research opportunities and to choose a research advisor during the first or second semester that the student is enrolled. After the second semester of study, course selection should be made in consultation with the research adviser. Part-time students are encouraged to enroll in only one course during their first semester and in no more than two courses during any semester they are also working full-time.

To receive a Master of Science degree in Telecommunications Engineering, a student must meet the following minimum set of requirements:

Completion of a minimum of 33 semester hours of graduate level lecture courses including the required core courses. With adviser approval, these may include some 5000 level courses.

Students must take the following five core courses and make a grade of B or better:

CS/TE 6385 Algorithmic Aspects of Telecommunication Networks
EE 6349 Random Processes
EE 6352 Digital Communication Systems
CS 6352 Performance of Computer Systems
CS 6390 Advanced Communication and Computer Networks

Students will take additional courses from those described in the following pages.

Recommended Elective Courses: Choose any 18 hours of 6000 level courses or higher with approval of the adviser.

RECOMMENDED ELECTIVES:

EE 5305 Radio Frequency Engineering
EE 6310 Optical Communication Systems***
EE 6316 Fields and Waves
EE 6341 Information Theory I
EE 6343 Detection and Estimation theory
EE 6344 Coding Theory***
EE 6345 Engineering of Packet-Switched Networks***
EE 6355 RF and Microwave Communications Circuits
EE 6360 Digital Signal Processing I
EE 6361 Digital Signal Processing II
EE 6362 Speech Signal Processing
EE 6365 Adaptive Signal Processing
EE 6390 Introduction to Wireless Communications Systems***
EE 6391 Signal and Coding for Wireless Communication Systems
EE 6392 Propagation and Devices for Wireless Communication
EE 6394 Antenna Engineering for Wireless Communications
EE 6395 Advanced Radio Frequency Engineering
EE 7340 Optical Network Architectures and Protocols
CS 6354 Software Engineering
CS 6360 Database Design
CS 6363 Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms
CS 6368 Telecommunication Network Management
CS 6378 Advanced Operating Systems***
CS 6381 Combinatorics and Graph Algorithms
CS 6386 Telecommunication Software Design***
CS 6392 Mobile Computing Systems
CS 6394 Digital Telephony
CS 6396 Real Time Systems

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