Credit Hours: The student's supervisory committee is responsible for evaluating his/her overall transcript to ensure that the following distributional requirements are met:

• (1) minimum 27 hours formal regularly scheduled graduate course work in the engineering area of concentration (not necessarily electrical engineering courses); at least 20 of these hours at the 6000 level.

• (2) minimum additional 8 hours in mathematics or statistics courses (not necessarily math department courses). (3) minimum additional 8 hours outside the major area of concentration (these could be other courses in the Department).

• (4) minimum 60 hours total course work (including i-iii above) beyond BS degree (may include directed study EEL 6908, directed research EEL 6910-1, seminars EEL 6932-5).

• (5) minimum 20 hours dissertation (EEL 7980).

• (6) minimum 90 hours total beyond BS degree