Computer Engineering Major, BS in Computer Engineering

Students may choose from a wide spectrum of courses covering various aspects of computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, and related fields.

uTrack Requirements (for students entering Fall 2013 or later)

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 include successful completion of specified courses and/or attainment of a minimum GPA. uTrack requirements only affect full-time, degree-seeking students who first entered Fall 2013 or later. uTrack does not apply to transfer students who enter prior to Fall 2015.

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.

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 Tickle 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.

Requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

Term 1	Hours	Milestone Notes
¹COSC 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 130	4	MATH 130 or higher
EF 152 * or EF 158 *	4
ENGL 102 *	3
MATH 142 * or MATH 148 *	4
Term 3
COSC 140	4	EF 151 * or PHYS 135 *
ECE 201 , ECE 255	6
PHYS 231 *	3
MATH 231 or MATH 237	3
Term 4
CHEM 120 * or CHEM 128 *	4	EF 152 * or PHYS 136 *
ECE 202	3
MATH 241 or MATH 247	4
MATH 251 or MATH 257	3
PHYS 232 *	4
Term 5
COSC 302 or COSC 307	4	CBE 201 or COSC 102 or ME 202 or MSE 201
²Cultures and Civilizations Elective *	3
ECE 315 , ECE 335 , ECE 395	7
ECE 313 or ECE 317	3
Term 6
²Arts and Humanities Elective *	3
COSC 311 or COSC 317 , COSC 361	6	No milestones
ECE 351 or ECE 357	3
³Computer Engineering Upper-Division Elective	3
Term 7
²Arts and Humanities Elective *	3	No milestones
ECE 401	2
ECE 451 or ECE 457	3
²Social Sciences Elective *	3
³Computer Engineering Upper-Division Elective	6
Term 8
²Cultures and Civilizations Elective *	3	No milestones
ECE 402 *	3
²Social Sciences Elective *	3
³Computer Engineering Upper-Division Electives	6
TOTAL	128

*	Meets University General Education Requirement .
¹	Beginning students who have had high school computer science and/or who have had significant programming experience (e.g. summer institute study, special research projects, home laboratory) are invited to apply during the summer to the head of the department for permission to take a proficiency examination for COSC 102 , Introduction to Computer Science. If a satisfactory grade is made on the examination, credit will be allowed for COSC 102 . The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science also gives credit in COSC 102 to students who receive a score of 5 on the Computer Science Advanced Placement Examination.
²	Chosen from the University General Education list .
³	Among the five computer engineering upper-division electives, you must choose courses that cover 3 tracks with one of the tracks being Networking & Embedded Systems. The course distribution among the 3 tracks should follow the 2-2-1 pattern, among which at most 2 courses can be at the 3xx-level. The following series lists the acceptable set of electives that may be taken to satisfy the upper-division electives for the computer engineering major. The electives have been grouped into eight suggested tracks. The tracks group related electives that a student may wish to take in order to achieve a level of expertise in the indicated area. The 500-level courses are listed as suggestions to students admitted into the Five-Year BS/MS program. ECE 491 - Special Topics may be used as a computer engineering and electrical engineering upper-division elective. Up to two COSC 5XX or ECE 5XX courses may count as upper-division elections.

Networking & Embedded Systems	Signals and Systems	Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
ECE 453 - Introduction to Computer Networks ECE 455 - Embedded Systems Design ECE 462 - Cyber-Physical Systems Security ECE 463 - Introduction to Datacenters ECE 553 - Computer Networks ECE 555 - Embedded Systems ECE 556 - Wireless Sensor Networks COSC 530 - Comp Systems Organization	ECE 316 - Signals and Systems II ECE 471 - Introduction to Pattern Recognition or ECE 477 - Honors: Introduction to Pattern Recognition ECE 472 - Introduction to Digital Image Processing or ECE 478 - Honors: Introduction to Digital Image Processing ECE 462 - Cyber-Physical Systems Security ECE 463 - Introduction to Datacenters ECE 505 - Digital Signal Processing I ECE 506 - Digital Signal Processing II ECE 571 - Pattern Recognition ECE 572 - Digital Image Processing	ECE 471 - Introduction to Pattern Recognition or ECE 477 - Honors: Introduction to Pattern Recognition ECE 517 - Reinforcement Learning ECE 571 - Pattern Recognition COSC 420 - Biologically-Inspired Computation or COSC 427 - Honors: Biologically-Inspired Computation COSC 421 - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience COSC 425 - Introduction to Machine Learning COSC 526 - Intro Data Mining COSC 527 - Biologically-Inspired Computation COSC 528 - Intro Machine Learning COSC 529 - Autonomous Mobile Robotics
Software Systems	Control and Communications	Electronics and Power
COSC 340 - Software Engineering COSC 360 - Systems Programming COSC 370 - Introduction to Scientific Computing COSC 456 - Computer Graphics COSC 461 - Compilers COSC 462 - Parallel Programming COSC 465 - Databases and Scripting Languages COSC 525 - Software Engineering COSC 541 - Database COSC 560 - Software Systems COSC 565 - Survey of Programming Languages COSC 581 - Algorithms	ECE 316 - Signals and Systems II ECE 415 - Automatic Control Systems ECE 416 - Digital Control Systems or ECE 417 - Honors: Computer Control Systems ECE 341 - Fields or ECE 347 - Honors: Fields ECE 342 - Fundamentals of Communications ECE 443 - Antenna Systems Engineering ECE 463 - Introduction to Datacenters	ECE 316 - Signals and Systems II ECE 325 - Electric Energy System Components ECE 336 - Electronic Circuits ECE 421 - Electric Energy Systems or ECE 427 - Honors: Electric Energy Systems ECE 431 - Operational Amplifier Circuits ECE 432 - Electronic Amplifiers ECE 433 - Introduction to VLSI ECE 481 - Power Electronics or ECE 487 - Honors: Power Electronics
Cybersecurity		Integrated Circuits
COSC 434 - Network Security or COSC 534 - Network Security COSC 445 - Fundamentals of Digital Archeology or COSC 545 - Fundamentals of Digital Archeology COSC 466 - Web Security or COSC 566 - Web Security COSC 483 - Applied Cryptography or COSC 583 - Applied Cryptography ECE 459 - Secure and Trustworthy Computer Hardware Design or ECE 559 - Secure and Trustworthy Computer Hardware Design	ECE 462 - Cyber-Physical Systems Security ECE 469 - Mobile and Embedded Systems Security or ECE 569 - Mobile and Embedded Systems Security ECE 471 - Introduction to Pattern Recognition or ECE 571 - Pattern Recognition or COSC 425 - Introduction to Machine Learning or COSC 528 - Introduction to Machine Learning	ECE 336 - Electronic Circuits ECE 431 - Operational Amplifier Circuits ECE 432 - Electronic Amplifiers ECE 433 - Introduction to VLSI ECE 455 - Embedded Systems Design ECE 459 - Secure and Trustworthy Computer Hardware Design ECE 531 Advanced Analog Electronics I ECE 532 Advanced Analog Electronics II ECE 533 Advanced MOS Concepts and VLSI Design ECE 551 Digital System Design I ECE 555 Embedded Systems ECE 559 Secure and Trustworthy Computer Hardware Design

Computer Engineering – Honors Concentration

In addition to satisfying the requirements for the electrical engineering, computer engineering, or computer science major, candidates for the honors concentration must also complete the following requirements.

Maintain an overall GPA of 3.4.
Four 100- or 200-level honors courses* (14 hours minimum, at least two courses must be from Engineering Fundamentals, Physics, Math, Chemistry, Biology, Statistics, or Materials Science and Engineering 207 ).
Two upper-division honors courses in computer science or electrical and computer engineering (COSC 307 , COSC 317 , COSC 367 , COSC 377 , COSC 427 or ECE 317 , ECE 347 , ECE 357 , ECE 417 , ECE 427 , ECE 457 , ECE 477 , ECE 478 , ECE 487 ).
Satisfy the breadth requirements for the Engineering Honors Program as shown on the Tickle College of Engineering website.

While most students fulfill this requirement with 100- and 200-level courses, students may substitute upper level courses on approval of the Honors faculty.

Computer Engineering Major – Five-Year BS/MS Program

The department offers a Five-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 coursework while full admission is granted after completing 96 hours of required coursework 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.

Undergraduates

Graduate Students