NOTE: The registrar's office will automatically credit these 30 hours towards your doctorate, but - your committee may elect not to accept all of them and a doctoral student may have to complete more EE courses to qualify for a doctorate. The student and committee MUST write a formal doctoral plan (signed by all committee members) showing all course work to be counted toward the Ph.D degree.

Note that students with an MSEE from USF typically begin the Ph.D. program with 18 credits in category (i), 6 credits in category (ii), and 6 hours of thesis. Thus, a heavily research-oriented program could meet the remaining requirements with:

• 3 hours math
• 9 hours regularly scheduled courses in area of concentration;
• 8 hours outside area of concentration;
• 10 hours directed research, directed study, seminar, or course work; and
• 30 hours thesis (or 20 hours class work, 10 hours directed research, and 30 hours thesis research.)