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2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Electrical Engineering Major, BS in Electrical Engineering - Power and Energy Systems Concentration


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The department offers a concentration for undergraduates who are interested in the fields of power system and power electronics. This concentration pulls together currently-offered courses to provide students with an in-depth focus towards control systems, operations, planning, system components, power electronics, and circuits.

uTrack Requirements (for first-year students)

Universal Tracking (uTrack) is an academic monitoring system designed to help students stay on track for timely graduation. In order to remain on track, students must complete the minimum requirements for each tracking semester known as milestones. Milestones may include successful completion of specified courses and/or attainment of a minimum GPA. uTrack requirements only affect first-time, first-year, full-time, degree-seeking students entering Fall 2013.

Progression Policies and Requirements

The department requires at least a C in every computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, and mathematics course used for the undergraduate degrees. Students taking ECE 201  must also have a C or better in EF 152  or EF 158 .

Progression of departmental undergraduate students to the upper-division programs of the department is competitive and is based on the space available in the department. Factors considered in the decision include overall grade point average, grades earned in courses required in the lower division curricula of the department and College of Engineering, and seriousness of purpose and interest in departmental programs as exemplified by regular and orderly progress through the prescribed curriculum without abuse of withdrawal and course repeat privileges.

Students who take ECE 202  will be evaluated during the semester they are registered for it. Transfer students for whom ECE 202  transfer credit is given may take 9 semester hours in departmental courses before progression evaluation. All students, whether or not they transfer in, who are not accepted into the upper-division program of the department will be put in either a temporary probationary status or a non-progressed status and will not be permitted to register for any upper division courses within the department.

Requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering • Power and Energy Systems Concentration


Term 1 Hours Milestone Notes
COSC 102 * 4 MATH 130  or higher or one Arts and Humanities*, Cultures and Civilizations*, or Social Sciences* Elective
EF 151 * or EF 157 * 4  
ENGL 101 * or ENGL 118 * 3  
MATH 141 * or MATH 147 * 4  
Term 2
COSC 160  4 MATH 130  or higher
EF 152 * or EF 158 * 4  
ENGL 102 * 3  
MATH 142 * or MATH 148 * 4  
Term 3
CHEM 120 * or CHEM 128 * 4  
ECE 201 , ECE 255  6 EF 151 * or PHYS 135 *
MATH 231  3  
PHYS 231 * 3  
Term 4
ECE 202  3 EF 152 * or PHYS 136 *
ECE 313  or ECE 317  3  
MATH 241  or MATH 247  4  
MATH 251  or MATH 257  3  
PHYS 232 * 4  
Term 5
ECE 315 , ECE 325 , ECE 335 , ECE 395  10 CBE 201  or COSC 102 * or ME 202  or MSE 201 
ECE 341  or ECE 347  3  
1Social Sciences Elective * 3  
Term 6
1Arts and Humanities Elective * 3 No milestones
ECE 316 , ECE 336 , ECE 342  9  
1Social Sciences Elective * 3  
Term 7
1Arts and Humanities Elective * 3 No milestones
1Cultures and Civilizations Elective * 3  
2EF 402  1  
ECE 401 * 2  
3Power and Energy Systems Electives 9  
Term 8
1Cultures and Civilizations Elective * 3 No milestones
ECE 402 * 3  
IE 457  or ME 457  3  
3Power and Energy Systems Elective 3  
4Technical Elective 3  
     
TOTAL 127  

* Meets University General Education Requirement .
1 Chosen from University General Education List .
2 Students in the Chancellor’s Honors Program are not required to take EF 402 .
3 Select four courses (12 hours) from: ECE 415 , ECE 421 , ECE 422 , ECE 481 , ECE 482 , ECE 521, ECE 522, ECE 523, ECE 525.
4 Technical electives chosen from COSC 140 , COSC 311  or MATH 300 , COSC 370 ; CHEM 130 * or CHEM 138 *; IE 405 ; MSE 201 , MSE 410 ; ME 231 , ME 321 , ME 331 , ME 344 ; NE 342  or NE 347 .

Five-Year BS/MS Program


The department offers a 5 year BS-MS program for qualified students. The primary component of the program is that qualified students may take up to 6 hours of approved graduate courses for their senior undergraduate electives and have them count toward both their bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Tennessee. This program is designed for students attending the University of Tennessee for their Master of Science degree because other universities may not accept these courses for graduate credit since they were used to satisfy requirements for the Bachelor of Science degree. Significant components of the program are: 

  • Students must have an overall GPA of at least 3.4 to be admitted to the program. Conditional admission may be granted after completing 64 hours of required course work while full admission is granted after completing 96 hours of required course work with a minimum overall GPA of 3.4.
  • Students must at least have conditional admission before taking graduate courses for both their bachelor’s and master’s degrees. All courses taken for graduate credit must be approved by the departmental chair of the program. Students admitted to the program must request permission from the Graduate School to take approved courses for graduate credit.
  • Students admitted to the program must also follow the normal procedure for admission to the Graduate School. Admission of students into this program must be approved by the department and the Graduate School. Students will not be eligible for graduate assistantships until they are enrolled as graduate-level students in the Graduate School.

Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering Honors Concentrations


Students who wish to pursue the honors electrical engineering concentration, honors computer engineering concentration, and honors computer science concentration will normally be part of the Chancellor’s Honors Program.

Candidates for the honors electrical engineering concentration and honors computer engineering concentration must complete the first year courses for honors concentration in the engineering majors. Candidates for the honors computer science concentration must meet the first year requirements for the Chancellor’s Honors Program.

In addition to satisfying the requirements described above, candidates for these three honors concentrations must also satisfy the following requirements.

  • Two upper-division honors courses in computer science or electrical and computer engineering via Honors-by-Contract or Honors Independent study, or equivalent.
  • If participating in only the Chancellor’s Honors Program, the Honors-by-Contract paperwork goes to the Chancellor’s Honors Office on campus during the first 10 days of the semester. If participating in Engineering Honors and not Chancellor’s Honors, the Honors-by-Contract paperwork is submitted the first 10 days of the semester to the engineering major department. If participating in both Chancellor’s and Engineering Honors, the Honors-by-Contract paperwork is submitted to both areas.
  • Complete a 3-credit hour senior project course. This can normally be completed as part of the capstone design course, ECE 402 * for computer engineering majors and electrical engineering majors or COSC 402 * for computer science majors.

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