Electrical Engineering, BSEE (Boston)
Source: https://catalog.northeastern.edu/undergraduate/engineering/electrical-computer/electrical-engineering-bsee/ Parent: https://catalog.northeastern.edu/general-information/accreditation/
Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.
Universitywide Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the Universitywide Requirements.
NUpath Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.
NUpath requirements Interpreting Culture (IC), Understanding Societies and Institutions (SI), Engaging Differences and Diversity (DD), and Integrating Knowledge and Skills Through Experience (EX) are not explicitly satisfied by required engineering coursework. Successful completion of a cooperative education experience fulfills the EX requirement. Students are responsible for satisfying unfulfilled NUpath requirements with general elective coursework.
Engineering Requirements
Course List
| Code | Title | Hours |
| --- | --- | --- | | Required Courses | | | | EECE 2140 | Computing Fundamentals for Engineers | 4 | | EECE 2150 | Circuits and Signals: Biomedical Applications | 5 | | EECE 2160 | Embedded Design: Enabling Robotics | 4 | | Electrical Engineering Fundamentals | | | | EECE 2412 and EECE 2413 | Fundamentals of Electronics and Lab for EECE 2412 | 5 | | EECE 2520 | Fundamentals of Linear Systems | 4 | | EECE 2530 and EECE 2531 | Fundamentals of Electromagnetics and Lab for EECE 2530 | 5 | | Computer Engineering Fundamentals | | | | If more than one computer engineering fundamentals course is taken, it can count as a technical elective. | | | | Complete one of the following: | | 4-5 | | EECE 2322 and EECE 2323 | Fundamentals of Digital Design and Computer Organization and Lab for EECE 2322 | | | EECE 2540 | Fundamentals of Networks | | | EECE 2560 | Fundamentals of Engineering Algorithms | | | Electrical Engineering Capstone Courses | | | | If taking EECE 4791 in First-Half Summer, EECE 4792 must be taken in Spring. If taking EECE 4791 in Second-Half Summer, EECE 4792 must be taken in Fall. | | | | EECE 4791 | Electrical and Computer Engineering Capstone 1 | 1 | | EECE 4792 | Electrical and Computer Engineering Capstone 2 | 4 | | Electrical Engineering Technical Electives | | | | Students can register for EECE 4991/EECE 4992 more than once. For these courses combined, a maximum of 8 semester hours will be allowed to satisfy the requirement of technical electives. An additional 4 semester hours will be allowed as a general elective. At most, one of these courses (4 semester hours) can be taken in a semester. | | | | Though students may register for EECE 2750 more than once, only 4 semester hours will be allowed to satisfy the requirements of technical electives. An additional 4 semester hours will be allowed as a general elective. | | | | EECE 2310 is not an approved course option for ECE majors to select for a technical elective. It is only for Khoury students. | | | | Students who choose to complete the optional concentration in semiconductor engineering may fulfill this requirement with concentration coursework. | | | | Complete four of the following: | | 16 | | EECE 2322 and EECE 2323 | Fundamentals of Digital Design and Computer Organization and Lab for EECE 2322 | | | EECE 2540 to EECE 2750 | | | | EECE 3324 to EECE 3410 | | | | EECE 4512 to EECE 4698 | | | | EECE 4991 | Research | | | EECE 4992 | Directed Study | | | EECE 5115 to EECE 5699 | | | | EECE 5670 | Sustainable Energy: Materials, Conversion, Storage, and Usage | | | Supplemental Credit | | | | 2 semester hours from the following counts toward the engineering requirement: | | 2 | | EECE 3468 | Analysis of Random Phenomena in Electrical and Computer Engineering | | | 2 semester hours from the following counts toward the engineering requirement: | | 2 | | GE 1501 | Cornerstone of Engineering 1 1 | | | 3 semester hours from the following course count toward the engineering requirement: | | 3 | | GE 1502 | Cornerstone of Engineering 2 1 | |
Supporting Courses: Mathematics/Science
Complete all mathematics/science courses with a minimum of 30 semester hours.
Course List
| Code | Title | Hours |
| --- | --- | --- | | CHEM 1151 and CHEM 1153 | General Chemistry for Engineers and Recitation for CHEM 1151 | 4 | | MATH 1341 | Calculus 1 for Science and Engineering | 4 | | MATH 1342 | Calculus 2 for Science and Engineering | 4 | | MATH 2321 | Calculus 3 for Science and Engineering | 4 | | MATH 2341 | Differential Equations and Linear Algebra for Engineering | 4 | | PHYS 1151 and PHYS 1152 and PHYS 1153 | Physics for Engineering 1 and Lab for PHYS 1151 and Interactive Learning Seminar for PHYS 1151 | 5 | | PHYS 1155 and PHYS 1156 and PHYS 1157 | Physics for Engineering 2 and Lab for PHYS 1155 and Interactive Learning Seminar for PHYS 1155 | 5 | | Supplemental Credit | | | | 2 semester hours from the following counts toward the mathematics/science requirement: | | 2 | | EECE 3468 | Analysis of Random Phenomena in Electrical and Computer Engineering | | | 1 semester hour from the following counts toward the mathematics/science requirement: | | 1 | | GE 1501 | Cornerstone of Engineering 1 1 | |
Professional Development
Course List
| Code | Title | Hours |
| --- | --- | --- | | Professional Development | | | | ENCP 2000 | Introduction to Engineering Co-op Education | 1 | | ENCP 3000 | Professional Issues in Engineering | 1 | | GE 1000 | First-Year Seminar | 1 | | Additional Required Courses | | | | 1 semester hour from the following counts toward the professional development requirement: | | 1 | | GE 1501 | Cornerstone of Engineering 1 1 | | | 1 semester hour from the following course counts toward the professional development requirement: | | 1 | | GE 1502 | Cornerstone of Engineering 2 1 | |
Writing Requirements
Course List
| Code | Title | Hours |
| --- | --- | --- | | A grade of C or higher is required: | | | | ENGW 1111 | First-Year Writing | 4 | | ENGW 3302 | Advanced Writing in the Technical Professions | 4 | | or ENGW 3315 | Interdisciplinary Advanced Writing in the Disciplines | |
Required General Electives
Course List
| Code | Title | Hours |
| --- | --- | --- | | Complete 28 semester hours of academic, nonremedial, nonrepetitive courses. Students who choose to complete the optional concentration in semiconductor engineering may apply concentration coursework to this requirement. | | 28 |
1 : Students can substitute Engineering Design (GE 1110) and Engineering Problem Solving and Computation (GE 1111) for Cornerstone of Engineering 1 (GE 1501) and Cornerstone of Engineering 2 (GE 1502) .
Optional Concentration
Students may complete an optional concentration. Courses completed in the optional concentration may be applied toward this program's technical elective requirement course ranges or toward this program's general elective requirements. Students interested in declaring this concentration should discuss course selection with an ECE advisor.
Major GPA Requirement
Minimum 2.000 GPA required in EECE courses
Program Requirement
133 total semester hours required
Semiconductor Engineering Concentration
Course List
| Code | Title | Hours |
| --- | --- | --- | | EECE Core | | | | Complete four of the following (other courses outside of this list may fulfill this requirement if approved by COE Undergraduate Advising): | | 16 | | EECE 3392 | Electronic Materials | | | EECE 3410 | Electronic Design | | | EECE 4534 | Microprocessor-Based Design | | | EECE 4574 | Wireless Communication Circuits | | | EECE 4604 | Integrated Circuit Devices | | | EECE 4632 | Hardware-Software Codesign for FPGA-Based Systems | | | EECE 4646 | Optics for Engineers | | | EECE 5161 | Thin Film Technologies | | | EECE 5170 | Introduction to Multiferroics Materials and Systems | | | EECE 5606 | Micro- and Nanofabrication | | | EECE 5608 | Magnetic Materials for Next-Generation Electronics | | | EECE 5647 | Nanophotonics | | | EECE 5649 | Design of Analog Integrated Circuits with Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Technology | | | EECE 5651 | Introduction to Photonic Devices | | | EECE 5653 | Introduction to Quantum Engineering | | | Engineering and Science Breadth | | | | Complete one of the following: | | 4 | | CHME 2310 | Transport Processes 1 | | | CHME 2320 | Engineering Thermodynamics | | | CHME 3312 | Transport Processes 2 | | | CHME 3322 | Chemical Thermodynamics | | | CHME 4512 | Chemical Engineering Process Control | | | CHME 5105 | Materials Characterization Techniques | | | IE 4530 | Manufacturing Systems and Techniques | | | IE 5617 | Lean Concepts and Applications | | | ME 2340 | Introduction to Material Science | | | ME 5600 | Materials Processing and Process Selection | | | ME 5620 | Fundamentals of Advanced Materials | | | PHYS 4305 | Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics | | | PHYS 4623 | Medical Physics | | | PHYS 5114 | Physics and Applications of Quantum Materials | | | PHYS 5260 | Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology | | | PHYS 5318 | Principles of Experimental Physics | | | PHYS 5352 | Quantum Computation and Information | | | Project Management, Product Development, and Entrepreneurship | | | | Complete one of the following: | | 4 | | ENTR 3330 | Design Thinking for Startups | | | GE 5010 | Customer-Driven Technical Innovation for Engineers | | | GE 5020 | Engineering Product Design Methodology | | | GE 5030 | Iterative Product Prototyping for Engineers | | | GE 5100 | Product Development for Engineers | | | IE 2310 | Introduction to Industrial Engineering | | | MISM 2301 | Introduction to Information Systems and Digital Technologies | | | MISM 2420 | Foundations of Business Analysis | | | MKTG 4510 | New Product Development | | | SCHM 2301 | Supply Chain and Operations Management | | | SCHM 3301 | Global Supply Chain Strategy | |
Sample Plans of Study
Four Years, Two Co-ops in Summer Second Half/Fall
| Year 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| CHEM 1151 (ND) | 4 | GE 1502 (ER) | 4 | General Elective | 4 | General Elective | 4 |
| CHEM 1153 | 0 | MATH 1342 (FQ) | 4 | General Elective | 4 | ||
| ENGW 1111 (WF) | 4 | PHYS 1151 (ND) | 3 | ||||
| GE 1000 | 1 | PHYS 1152 (AD) | 1 | ||||
| GE 1501 | 4 | PHYS 1153 | 1 | ||||
| MATH 1341 (FQ) | 4 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| 17 | 17 | 8 | 4 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| EECE 21401 | 4 | EECE 2160 | 4 | General Elective | 4 | Co-op | 0 |
| EECE 2150 (AD) | 5 | ENCP 2000 | 1 | General Elective | 4 | ||
| MATH 2341 | 4 | MATH 2321 (FQ) | 4 | ||||
| PHYS 1155 (ND) | 3 | EE Fundamentals | 5 | ||||
| PHYS 1156 (AD) | 1 | EE Fundamentals | 4 | ||||
| PHYS 1157 | 1 | ||||||
| 18 | 18 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| Co-op | 0 | EECE 3468 | 4 | EECE 4791 (EI, CE, WI)2 | 1 | Co-op | 0 |
| ENCP 3000 | 1 | ENGW 3302 or 3315 (WD) | 4 | ||||
| CE Fundamentals | 4 | Technical Elective | 4 | ||||
| EE Fundamentals | 5 | ||||||
| Technical Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 0 | 18 | 9 | 0 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| Co-op | 0 | EECE 4792 (EI, CE, WI)2 | 4 | ||||
| Technical Elective | 4 | ||||||
| Technical Elective | 4 | ||||||
| General Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 0 | 16 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 133 |
Four Years, Two Co-ops in Spring/Summer First Half
| Year 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| CHEM 1151 (ND) | 4 | GE 1502 (ER) | 4 | General Elective | 4 | General Elective | 4 |
| CHEM 1153 | 0 | MATH 1342 (FQ) | 4 | General Elective | 4 | ||
| ENGW 1111 (WF) | 4 | PHYS 1151 (ND) | 3 | ||||
| GE 1000 | 1 | PHYS 1152 (AD) | 1 | ||||
| GE 1501 | 4 | PHYS 1153 | 1 | ||||
| MATH 1341 (FQ) | 4 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| 17 | 17 | 8 | 4 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| EECE 21401 | 4 | Co-op | 0 | Co-op | 0 | General Elective | 4 |
| EECE 2150 (AD) | 5 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| ENCP 2000 | 1 | ||||||
| MATH 2341 | 4 | ||||||
| PHYS 1155 (ND) | 3 | ||||||
| PHYS 1156 (AD) | 1 | ||||||
| PHYS 1157 | 1 | ||||||
| 19 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| EECE 2160 | 4 | Co-op | 0 | Co-op | 0 | EECE 4791 (EI, CE, WI)2 | 1 |
| ENCP 3000 | 1 | ENGW 3302 or 3315 (WD) | 4 | ||||
| MATH 2321 (FQ) | 4 | Technical Elective | 4 | ||||
| EE Fundamentals | 4 | ||||||
| EE Fundamentals | 5 | ||||||
| 18 | 0 | 0 | 9 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| EECE 3468 | 4 | Technical Elective | 4 | ||||
| CE Fundamentals | 4 | Technical Elective | 4 | ||||
| EE Fundamentals | 5 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| EECE 47922 | 4 | Technical Elective | 4 | ||||
| 17 | 16 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 133 |
Five Years, Three Co-ops in Summer Second Half/Fall
| Year 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| CHEM 1151 (ND) | 4 | GE 1502 (ER) | 4 | Vacation | Vacation | ||
| CHEM 1153 | 0 | MATH 1342 (FQ) | 4 | ||||
| ENGW 1111 (WF) | 4 | PHYS 1151 (ND) | 3 | ||||
| GE 1000 | 1 | PHYS 1152 (AD) | 1 | ||||
| GE 1501 | 4 | PHYS 1153 | 1 | ||||
| MATH 1341 (FQ) | 4 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| EECE 21401 | 4 | EECE 2160 | 4 | Vacation | Co-op | 0 | |
| EECE 2150 (AD) | 5 | ENCP 2000 | 1 | ||||
| MATH 2341 | 4 | MATH 2321 (FQ) | 4 | ||||
| PHYS 1155 (ND) | 3 | EE Fundamentals | 4 | ||||
| PHYS 1156 (AD) | 1 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| PHYS 1157 | 1 | ||||||
| 18 | 17 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| Co-op | 0 | CE Fundamentals | 4 | ENGW 3302 or 3315 (WD) | 4 | Co-op | 0 |
| EE Fundamentals | 5 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| EE Fundamentals | 5 | ||||||
| General Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 0 | 18 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| Co-op | 0 | EECE 3468 | 4 | EECE 4791 (EI, WI, CE)2 | 1 | Co-op | 0 |
| ENCP 3000 | 1 | Technical Elective | 4 | ||||
| Technical Elective | 4 | ||||||
| General Elective | 4 | ||||||
| General Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 0 | 17 | 5 | 0 | ||||
| Year 5 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| Co-op | 0 | EECE 4792 (EI, WI, CE)2 | 4 | ||||
| Technical Elective | 4 | ||||||
| Technical Elective | 4 | ||||||
| General Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 0 | 16 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 133 |
Five Years, Three Co-ops in Spring/Summer First Half
| Year 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| CHEM 1151 (ND) | 4 | GE 1502 (ER) | 4 | Vacation | Vacation | ||
| CHEM 1153 | 0 | MATH 1342 (FQ) | 4 | ||||
| ENGW 1111 (WF) | 4 | PHYS 1151 (ND) | 3 | ||||
| GE 1000 | 1 | PHYS 1152 (AD) | 1 | ||||
| GE 1501 | 4 | PHYS 1153 | 1 | ||||
| MATH 1341 (FQ) | 4 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| EECE 21401 | 4 | Co-op | 0 | Co-op | 0 | Vacation | 0 |
| EECE 2150 (AD) | 5 | ||||||
| ENCP 2000 | 1 | ||||||
| MATH 2341 | 4 | ||||||
| PHYS 1155 (ND) | 3 | ||||||
| PHYS 1156 (AD) | 1 | ||||||
| PHYS 1157 | 1 | ||||||
| 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| EECE 2160 | 4 | Co-op | 0 | Co-op | 0 | ENGW 3302 or 3315 (WD) | 4 |
| MATH 2321 (FQ) | 4 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| EE Fundamentals | 4 | ||||||
| General Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 16 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| ENCP 3000 | 1 | Co-op | 0 | Co-op | 0 | EECE 4791 (EI, WI, CE)2 | 1 |
| CE Fundamentals | 4 | Technical Elective | 4 | ||||
| EE Fundamentals | 5 | ||||||
| EE Fundamentals | 5 | ||||||
| General Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 19 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||
| Year 5 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| EECE 3468 | 4 | Technical Elective | 4 | ||||
| EECE 4792 (EI, WI, CE)2 | 4 | Technical Elective | 4 | ||||
| Technical Elective | 4 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| General Elective | 4 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| 16 | 16 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 133 |
1 : Computing Fundamentals for Engineers (EECE 2140) can be taken in year 1 spring instead of a general elective by students who are interested in the course in preparation for co-ops involving programming and computing hardware.
2 : The capstone design courses are taken as follows:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering Capstone 1 ([EECE 4791](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=EECE%204791)) in summer first half and Electrical and Computer Engineering Capstone 2 ([EECE 4792](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=EECE%204792)) in spring OR
- Electrical and Computer Engineering Capstone 1 ([EECE 4791](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=EECE%204791)) in summer second half and Electrical and Computer Engineering Capstone 2 ([EECE 4792](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=EECE%204792)) in fall
3 : The following sections of this course are approved to count toward the ECE core requirement of the semiconductor concentration:
- Magnetic Materials and Devices for Microwave Engineering
- Introduction to Quantum Engineering
- Biomedical Microsystems