MSE in EE Degree Requirements
Course Planning Guide (CPG)
Students must complete 10 Course Units in the following categories:
CATEGORY A: EE CORE 5 Course Units
CATEGORY B: ESE ELECTIVES 2 Course Units
CATEGORY C: SEAS ELECTIVES 1 Course Unit
CATEGORY D: OPEN ELECTIVES 2 Course Units
CATEGORY A: EE CORE
- Five (5) course units are required in any of the areas below.
- Students can select any combination from within these areas and are not limited to a single area.
Physical Devices & Nano Systems
| ESE 510: Electromagnetic & Optical Theory |
| ESE 518: Electrical Energy Storage: Battery & Super-Capacitive Systems |
| ESE 521: The Physics of Solid State Energy Devices |
| ESE 523: Quantum Engineering |
| ESE 525: Nanoscale Science and Engineering |
| ESE 526: Photovoltaic Systems Engineering |
| ESE 529: Introduction to MEMS and NEMS |
| ESE 536: Nanofabrication and Nanocharacterization |
| ESE 574: Principles & Practice of Microfabrication Technology |
Circuits & Computer Engineering
| ESE 519: Real Embedded Systems |
| ESE 532: System-On-A-Chip Architecture |
| ESE 535: Electronic Design Automation |
| ESE 539: Hardware/Software Co-Design for Machine Learning |
| ESE 570: Digital Integrated Circuits & VLSI Fundamentals |
| ESE 572: Analog Integrated Circuits |
| ESE 578: RF Integrated Circuits |
| ESE 668: Mixed Signal Design and Modeling |
Information & Decision Systems
| ESE 500: Linear Systems Theory |
| ESE 504: Intro to Linear, Nonlinear,and Integer Optimization |
| ESE 505: Controls of Systems |
| ESE 507: Introduction to Networks and Protocols |
| ESE 512: Dynamical Systems |
| ESE 528. Estimation and Detection Theory |
| ESE 530: Elements of Probability Theory |
| ESE 531: Digital Signal Processing |
| ESE 542: Statistics for Data Science |
| ESE 545: Data Mining: Learning from Massive Datasets |
CATEGORY B: ESE ELECTIVES
- Two (2) course units from any graduate-level ESE course.
CATEGORY D: OPEN ELECTIVES
- Two (2) course units of approved electives from graduate courses at Penn in SEAS, SAS, Medicine, Law, Wharton MBA, Social Policy, and Education.
- Open Elective courses must have technical/scientific content and relevance to the student’s program.
- Approval must be obtained from the ESE department via petition prior to enrollment in the course.
- Pre-Approved courses can be found on the EE CPG Precedent List.
IMPORTANT NOTES
*CIT Course Eligibility Maximum of two (2) CIT course units are allowed towards the degree
**EAS Course Eligibility Only the following EAS courses are permitted: EAS 507, EAS 510, EAS 512, EAS 545, EAS 546, EAS 595.
***ESE 680 Special Topics This course can be taken several times and counted more than once toward the degree. Each ESE 680 course taken must address a different topic to be eligible.
ESE 597 Master’s Thesis Option If a thesis is completed, it will count for 1 or 2 course units of ESE 597 toward the degree.
ESE 599 Independent Study Maximum of one (1) course unit can be used toward the degree within a pre-approved category.
Cross-Listed Courses MUST be registered with the 500-level course number to be eligible as a graduate level course. Any cross-listed section at the 400-level or below is ineligible towards the degree.
Transfer Courses Maximum of two (2) graduate-level course units may be transferred from another school to apply towards the degree. These cannot have been used to fulfill undergraduate degree requirements.