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To earn a master's in Electrical Engineering from Loyola Marymount University, students must successfully complete the following:
- 30 semester hours with a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 (B grade or higher) of graduate-level coursework (i.e. 5000-level or 6000-level courses).
- At least eight semester hours must be in 6000-level courses
- At least 24 semester hours must be in EECE courses
- At most six semester hours can include both EECE courses offered by this department as well as appropriate courses from other disciplines in the Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering or the College of Business Administration.
- The program of study must include the following courses: EECE 5140, EECE 5120, EECE 5210, and Graduate Capstone Project or Master's Thesis.
- Grade of "B" or higher in all 5000-level courses
Courses
The list of all ELEC courses at the 5000 and 6000 levels can be found here. The following is a list of required and elective courses for the Electrical Engineering program.
Required Courses
- EECE 5120 Microwave Engineering and Antennas
- EECE 5140 Computer Architecture with VHDL
- EECE 5210 Random Processes
- EECE 5000 level or EECE 6000 level course
Elective Courses
Elective courses allow students to study a particular subject in more depth or to broaden their education with courses from other fields, including computer science and systems engineering. Students have applied their new skills on course projects for:
- Autonomous drone systems
- Optical communications
- Ultrafast imaging and remote sensing
- Antenna design
- Motion capture systems for health and human performance
- Wireless sensor networks and the Internet of Things
- Deep learning and machine learning for computer vision
- Software defined radio
- ASIC Design
For elective courses, students can also register for independent-study courses and learn independently under the supervision of an instructor. These courses are ideal for students interested in doing research under the guidance of a faculty member.
Courses from other departments may be taken as additional electives with the consent of the Program Director and the course instructor.
Thesis
A master's thesis is an optional component of your Electrical Engineering master's program. Students who select the thesis option will develop a research project under the close supervision and guidance of a faculty member. The student and faculty member agree on the research topic, and the results of the research activity are published at peer-reviewed conferences and journals. The thesis must conform to the Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering LMU Thesis Requirements.
Previous thesis students have presented their work in the following international conferences and journals:
- ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems
- IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
- 2023 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications
- 2018 22nd International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'18)
- 2018 1st International Conference on Image, Video Processing and Artificial Intelligence (IVPAI'18)
- 2018 15th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2018)
- 2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT 2016)
- 2016 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC'16)
- IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Please note the following course requirements associated with the thesis option:
- Students must obtain a thesis advisor before departmental consent will be considered.
- A master's thesis can fulfill up to a maximum of 9 semester hours.
- Students may enroll in a maximum of 3 semester hours of master's thesis in any given semester.