Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Online

• EE 798 (Special Study project) is a required course for all students. For the second core course, students can choose either EE 602 or EE 603.
• EE 798: Special Study (3 Units)
  You can enroll in your Capstone Project course after completing at least 21 units of coursework. Your graduate advisor can help you select a project topic aligned with your coursework. The project has to be defended orally to the project advisor, and you must submit a written report of the project to the department.
• For the second core course, choose either EE 602 or EE 603.
• EE 602: Stochastic Signals and Systems (3 Units)
  Random signals, correlation functions, power spectral densities, the Gaussian process, narrow band processes. Applications to communication systems.
  Created by: Dr. Ashkan Ashrafi
• EE 603: Engineering Optimization (3 Units)
  Unconstrained and constrained optimization problems. Convex sets, functions, analysis, and optimization problems. Least-squares, linear, and quadratic programs. Optimality conditions, duality theory.
  Created by: Dr. Saeed Manshadi

• EE 503 Biomedical electronics (3 units)
  Instrumentation systems to monitor, image, control, and record physiological functions
  Created by: Dr. Hakan Toreyin
• EE 581: Power System Dynamics (3 Units)
  Three-phase faults, symmetrical components, unsymmetrical faults, protective relay operating principles, economic dispatch of thermal power generation units, power system controls, voltage and power stability.
  Created by: Hassan Ghoudjehbaklou, Ph.D.
• EE 584: Power Electronics (3 Units)
  Design and analysis of power electronic devices. Permanent-magnet and pulse-width modulation ac-to-ac converters, dc-to-ac inverters, power electronics applications, power semiconductor switches, and switch-mode power supplies.
  Created by: Dr. Reza Sabzehgar
• EE 586: Distributed Energy Resources and Smart Grid Technologies (3 Units)
  Effects of changes in structure of the electric utility system caused by distributed generation or co-generation involving deployment of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. Photovoltaic systems to include power converters and energy storage, residential grid connected photovoltaic systems, load flow analysis of power grids and microgrids.
  Created by: Dr. Sridhar Seshagiri
• EE 658: Advanced Digital Signal Processing (3 Units)
  Advanced topics in FIR and IIR filter design. Quantization effects in digital filters. Sigma-delta modulation. Signal modeling. Parametric and non-parametric spectral estimation. Frequency estimation.
  Created by: Dr. Ashkan Ashrafi
• COMPE 510: Machine Learning (3 Units)
  (soon to be COMPE 510) Machine learning is a discipline that deals with the automatic design of models from data and has been successfully used in the past few decades for data analysis, process automation, function optimization, model building and many others. The main topics to be covered include probability theory, linear regression, logistic regression, neural networks, decision trees, clustering, Bayesian estimation, dimension reduction, Markov and hidden Markov models with implementation of these models in Matlab, Python or R.
  Created by: Dr. Junfei Xie
• COMPE 560: Computer Networks (3 Units)
  Wide area and local area networks, multi-layered protocols, telephone systems, modems, and network applications.
  Created by: Dr. Mahasweta Sarkar
• CompE 660: High Speed Networks (3 Units)
  Provides students with knowledge of recent developments in the area of computer networks. Current research in high speed computer networks.
  Created by: Dr. Aarti Gehani

• EE 558: Digital Communications (3 Units)
  Design of baseband digital communication systems; noise characterization, sampling, quantization, matched filter receivers, bit-error performance, inter-symbol interference, link budget analysis.
  Created by: Dr. Duy Nguyen
• EE 650: Modern Communication Theory (3 Units)
  Wireless digital communication; bandpass modulation and demodulation, multiple access techniques, broadband signaling techniques, spread spectrum techniques; applications include CDMA and OFDM.
  Created by: Dr. Santosh Nagaraj
• EE 652: Information Theory (3 Units)
  Information measure of data sources; Shannon’s theorem and capacity of communication links; rate-distortion theory and performance of source codes.
  Created by: Dr. Santosh Nagaraj
• EE 653: Coding Theory (3 Units)
  Error control for digital information; arithmetic of Galois fields; block, cyclic, convolutional and turbo encoding and decoding; applications in digital communication and computer systems.
  Created by: Dr. Santosh Nagaraj
• CompE 662: Wireless Sensor Networks (3 Units)
  Sensor platforms, wireless channel characteristics, time synchronization, medium access control, topology control, routing protocols, localization, coverage and placement, detection and tracking, query processing.
  Created by: Dr. Shams Al-Ajrawi
• CompE 671: VLSI Testing (3 Units)
  Theory and techniques for testing VLSI circuits and systems. Analog/mixed-signal testing, Automatic Test Pattern Generation (ATPG), boundary scan and core-based testing, Built-in Self-Test (BIST), defect and fault diagnosis, Design For Testability (DFT), logic/fault simulation, memory test, machine learning applications in VLSI testing, scan design/architecture.
• EE 685 Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Design and Applications (3 units)
  Design and manufacturing technology for micro- and nano-scale devices. Topics include solid state transducers, microscale physics, biomedical microelectronics, microfluidics, biosensors, and hybrid integration of microfabrication technology. Emphasis on biomedical applications.
  Created by: Dr. Sam Kassegne

No, when you graduate you’ll receive the same degree as SDSU’s on-campus students — a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from San Diego State University.