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

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.

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.

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.

uTrack Requirements

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.

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

Term 1	Hours	Milestone Notes
¹COSC 101	3	MATH 130 or MATH 131 or higher or one Arts and Humanities , Global Citizenship – US or Global Citizenship – International , or Social Sciences Elective
EF 142 * or EF 151 * or EF 157 *	4
ENGL 101 * or ENGL 118 ⁷* or ENGL 131 * or ENGL 198 *	3
MATH 132 * or MATH 141 * or MATH 147 *	3-4
Term 2
COSC 102	4	MATH 130 or MATH 131 or higher
EF 152 * or EF 158 *	4
ENGL 102 * or ENGL 132 * or ENGL 290 * or ENGL 298 *	3
MATH 142 * or MATH 148 *	4
Term 3
CHEM 122 * and CHEM 123 , or CHEM 128	4	EF 141 * and EF 142 , or EF 151 , or EF 157 , or PHYS 135 , or PHYS 137 *
ECE 201	3
ECE 255	3
MATH 231 or MATH 237	3
PHYS 231 *	3
Term 4
ECE 202	3	EF 152 * or EF 158 * or PHYS 136 * or PHYS 138 *
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	3	CBE 201 or COSC 101 or COSC 102 or COSC 111 * or ME 202 or MSE 201
ECE 325	3
ECE 335	3
ECE 395 *	1
ECE 341 or ECE 347	3
²Expanded Perspectives Elective*	3
Term 6
²Arts and Humanities Elective*	3	No milestones
ECE 316	3
ECE 336	3
ECE 342	3
²Social Sciences Elective*	3
Term 7
²Expanded Perspectives Elective*	3	No milestones
²Global Citizenship – US Elective*	3
ECE 401 *	2
³Power and Energy Systems Elective	3
³Electrical Engineering Senior Electives	6
Term 8
²Global Citizenship – International Elective*	3	No milestones
ECE 402 *	3
If necessary, ²Engaged Inquiries (Note student may try to choose courses from Expanded Perspectives or Electives that also meet Engaged Inquiries )*	0-3
ECE 496	1
⁶Economic, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Elective	3
³Power and Energy Systems Elective	3
⁴Technical Elective	3
TOTAL (minimum)	126-129

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 101 - Introduction to Programming . If a satisfactory grade is made on the examination, credit will be allowed for COSC 101 . The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science also gives credit in COSC 101 to students who receive a score of 5 or better on the Computer Science Advanced Placement A Examination.
²	Chosen from Volunteer Core list. Students should try to select courses that satisfy approved areas and Engaged Inquiries category. Students must have a minimum of 9 credit hours in at least two subject areas for Engaged Inquiries .
³	Select two courses (6 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 CHEM 132 * or CHEM 133 * or CHEM 138 ; COSC 311 or MATH 300 or MATH 307 ; COSC 370 , COSC 422 or COSC 425 ; ECE 256 , ECE 351 ; EF 203 , EF 303 ; IE 405 ; ME 231 , ME 321 , ME 331 ; MSE 201 or MSE 207 , MSE 410 , MSE 460 ; NE 342 or NE 347 ; PHYS 250 .
⁵	Choose 6 credit hours of electrical engineering senior electives with advisor’s consent. Up to two (2) COSC 5XX or ECE 5XX courses may count as upper-division electives. Acceptable senior electives are ECE 4xx courses that are not otherwise required.
⁶	Economic, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Elective chosen from IE 405 , IE 457 (or ME 457 ), IE 518, IE 557 (or ME 519), MGT 552, or MGT 560.
⁷	ENGL 118 * – Students receiving a passing grade below B in ENGL 118 * will complete the English Composition requirement by taking ENGL 102 . Students receiving a grade of B or above will complete their freshman English requirements by choosing ENGL 102 , a sophomore-level course in the English Department, or ENGL 355 *.

* Meets Volunteer Core Requirements .

Electrical Engineering – Power and Energy Systems – 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 Materials Science and Engineering, Engineering Fundamentals, Physics, Math, Chemistry, Biology, Statistics, or MSE 117 - Honors: Materials Chemistry 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 358 , ECE 417 , ECE 427 , ECE 477 , ECE 478 , ECE 487 ).
Satisfy the Breadth Requirements for the Cook Grand Challenge Honors Program.

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

Electrical Engineering – Power and Energy Systems Concentration – 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 9 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