Doctoral Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Total number of hours required for doctoral degree is 90 hours above the B.S. degree with the following requirements:

at least 9 hours course work in the major area of concentration
at least 9 hours graduate level math and/or physics
at least 9 hours graduate level ECE technical electives
at least half the course work (not including dissertation credits) must be ECE, Computer Science or TCOM courses
At least 30 credit hours dissertation research
9 hours maximum credit allowed for ECE 5990 – Special Studies
12 hours maximum credit allowed for ECE 5973 - Special Topics in Electrical Engineering and 12 hours for ECE 6973 - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering
12 hours maximum credit allowed for ECE 5283 – Special Topics in Digital Signal/Image Processing and 12 hours for ECE 6283 – Advanced Topics in Digital Signal/Image Processing

Other restrictions apply, and the student's doctoral committee sets the specific program of study.