The Master of Science degree without thesis requires a minimum of thirty hours of graduate credit. The plan of study (Form 1/1-A) must include a minimum of twenty-four credit hours of 4000-. 5000-, and 6000-level lecture courses (1000- or 2000-level courses cannot be included). A minimum of nine (9) credit hours of the required coursework must come from the group of 6000-level lecture courses. No credit hours of graduate research may be applied toward the plan of study. Students must declare their primary area at the beginning of the program (see choices below). Students may take up to 6 hours of courses from non-ECE programs (among 30 hours). However, courses from closely related fields may be taken with the approval of the Graduate Coordinator

• The nominal GPA requirement: undergraduate GPA of 3.3 on a 4.0 GPA system.
• Recommended (but not minimum) scores: Q+V≥305, Q≥155, AW≥5. This requirement may be waived if the applicant has an undergraduate GPA of 3.5 obtained from the courses offered by the ECE BS program at Missouri S&T (must be minimum 18 credit hours).
• English proficiency test score (international students only): The required minimum score set by the campus is TOEFL 80 (iBT) IELTS 6.5, PTE 58, or Duolingo 105. 
• Students with BS degrees in other disciplines may be required to take some undergraduate-level pre-requisite courses to make sure to have sufficient ECE background to ensure an academic success

The Non-Thesis MS Program is also available through distance education. For more general information, please visit https://ece.mst.edu. Additionally, details of catalog information for Electrical Engineering Program and Computer Engineering Program can be found in https://catalog.mst.edu/graduate/graduatedegreeprograms/electricalengineering/ and

https://catalog.mst.edu/graduate/graduatedegreeprograms/computerengineering/,

Students are required to declare their primary area and complete a minimum of 12 lecture credit hours of EE courses from the primary area. The other 18 credit hours may be taken from any area of electrical engineering or computer engineering with approval by the Graduate Coordinator. Experimental courses may be offered in any area with a 5001 or 6001 designation; consult the instructor or Graduate Coordinator for more information. Course offerings marked as “Demand” vary according to instructor availability and student enrollment.

Communications and Signal Processing Area:

• ELEC ENG 5400: Digital Signal Processing II (3 credit hours, offered spring even years)
• ELEC ENG 5430: Wireless Networks (3 credit hours, offered every fall)
• ELEC ENG 5450: Digital Image Processing (3 credit hours, offered demand)
• ELEC ENG 6410: Information Theory and Coding (3 credit hours, offered spring odd years)
• ELEC ENG 6430: Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (3 credit hours, offered on demand) 

Controls and Systems Area:

• ELEC ENG 5300: Digital Control (3 credit hours, offered every spring)
• ELEC ENG 5320: Neural Networks Control and Applications (3 credit hours, offered Fall even Years)
• ELEC ENG 5325: Applied Nonlinear Control (3 credit hours, offered on demand)
• ELEC ENG 5340: Advanced PLC (3 credit hours, offered every fall)
• ELEC ENG 5345: PLC Motion Control (3 credit hours, offered every spring)
• ELEC ENG 5350: Plantwide Process Control (3 credit hours, offered every spring)
• ELEC ENG 5355: Process Control System Safety, Security and Alarms (3 credit hours, offered fall even years)
• ELEC ENG 5810: Computational Intelligence (3 credit hours, offered every spring)
• ELEC ENG 6300: Linear Control Systems (3 credit hours, offered every fall)
• ELEC ENG 6310: Optimal Control and Estimation (3 credit hours, offered spring even years)
• ELEC ENG 6320: Nonlinear Control Systems (3 credit hours, offered fall even years)
• ELEC ENG 6330: Robust Control Systems (3 credit hours, offered spring odd years)
• ELEC ENG 6335: Discrete-Time Neural Network Control (3 credit hours, offered spring even years)
• ELEC ENG 6350: Neural Network Control of Nonlinear Continuous-time Systems (3 credit hours, offered fall even years)
• ELEC ENG 6360: Adaptive Dynamic Programming (3 credit hours, offered spring odd years)
• ELEC ENG 6830: Clustering Algorithms (3 credit hours, offered spring even years) 

Electromagnetics Area:

• ELEC ENG 5600: Interference Control in Electronic Systems (3 credit hours, offered every fall)
• ELEC ENG 5620: Signal Integrity in High-Speed Digital & Mixed Signal Design (3 credit hours, offered every spring)
• ELEC ENG 5630: Wave Propagation and Transmission Lines (3 credit hours, offered every fall)
• ELEC ENG 5640: Antennas and Propagation (3 credit hours, offered every fall)
• ELEC ENG 5650: Microwave and Millimeter Wave Engineering and Design (3 credit hours, offered spring even years) 
• ELEC ENG 5660: Microwave Principles For Mixed-Signal Design (3 credit hours, offered on demand) 
• ELEC ENG 5670: Nondestructive Testing (3 credit hours, offered spring odd years) 
• ELEC ENG 5680: Introduction to Radar Systems (3 credit hours, offered on demand) 
• ELEC ENG 6600: Advanced Electromagnetics I (3 credit hours, offered every spring)
• ELEC ENG 6630: Computational Electromagnetics (3 credit hours, offered spring odd years)  

Power and Energy Area:

• ELEC ENG 5500: Electric Drive Systems (3 credit hours, offered every spring)
• ELEC ENG 5510: Electric-Drive Vehicles (3 credit hours, offered every fall)
• ELEC ENG 5520: Power Electronics (3 credit hours, offered every fall)
• ELEC ENG 5540: Power Systems Engineering (3 credit hours, offered every spring)
• ELEC ENG 5550: Electric Power Quality (3 credit hours, offered every spring)
• ELEC ENG 5570: Extra High Voltage Engineering (3 credit hours, offered fall odd years)  
• ELEC ENG 6500: AC Drives: Dynamic and Control (3 credit hours, offered fall even years)  
• ELEC ENG 6510: Advanced Electric Drive Vehicles (3 credit hours, offered on demand) 
• ELEC ENG 6520: Advanced Power Electronics (3 credit hours, offered spring odd years)  
• ELEC ENG 6525: Power Converter Modeling and Design (3 credit hours, offered on demand) 
• ELEC ENG 6560: Power System Protection (3 credit hours, offered on demand)
• ELEC ENG 6565: Power System Protection II (3 credit hours, offered on demand)
• ELEC ENG 6580: Power System Protection II (3 credit hours, offered fall even years)   

Additional Courses (Demand):

• ELEC ENG 5150: Photovoltaic Systems Engineering (3 credit hours, Circuits & Electronics, Power & Energy)
• ELEC ENG 5220: Fiber And Integrated Optics (3 credit hours, Devices & Optics)
• ELEC ENG 5270: Smart Materials And Sensors (3 credit hours, Devices & Optics)
• ELEC ENG 6140: Advanced RF & Time Domain Measurements (3 credit hours, Circuits & Electronics)
• ELEC ENG 6150: Signal Integrity, High Speed Digital and RF Design Laboratory (3 credit hours, Circuits & Electronics, Electromagnetics)
• ELEC ENG 6200: Electromagnetic Optics (3 credit hours, Devices & Optics)

Please note:  During the semester a student will have completed nine hours of graduate credit, the student must formally plan the remainder of their graduate program in consultation with their academic advisor, and submit a Form 1 for approval, first to the department chair and then to the vice provost of graduate education.