Project Track Degree Requirements (Students Starting Before Fall 2023)

Ideas to Innovation courses: All students in the project track must complete Ideas-to-Innovation I-III, a 3-semester course sequence focused on an intensive design project and professional development exercises:

• Fall: Ideas to Innovation I (3 credits)
• Spring: Ideas to Innovation II (3 credits)
• Summer or Fall: Ideas to Innovation III (2 credits)

Degree requirements:

• Total credit hours: 30, including at least 15 credit hours of graduate-level ECE credits; includes the Ideas to Innovation courses
• Required project-track coursework:
  • Ideas to Innovation I, II, and III
  • Communication for Engineering Leaders
  • ENTR 50000, Entrepreneurship
• Required ECE core course: 1 (3 credit hours)
• Required math course: 1 (3 credit hours)

Sample plan of study: Most students take 4 semesters to earn the degree. A sample plan of study is shown below.

• Fall
  • Ideas to Innovation I (3 credits)
  • Communication for Engineering Leaders (1 credit)
  • Entrepreneurship (2 credits)
  • ECE or Math course (3 credits) 
• Spring
  • Ideas to Innovation II (3 credits)
  • ECE core course (3 credits)
  • ECE course or elective (3 credits)
• Fall
  • Ideas to Innovation III (2 credits; can be taken in the summer)
  • ECE courses or electives (6 credits)
• Spring
  • Additional ECE coursework or electives to meet 30 credit-hour requirement