Program: Mechanical and Energy Engineering, BS with grad track option leading to Electrical Engineering, MS - University of North Texas

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Admission requirements

To be eligible to apply for grad track, students must have a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher at the time of application

To apply, students should submit the following to the grad track coordinator of the Department of Electrical Engineering, MS before the first semester of their senior year:

A completed grad track application form, and

An up-to-date official transcript

The student’s application will be reviewed by the undergraduate coordinator in Mechanical Engineering and the graduate coordinator in Electrical Engineering.

After a student is admitted to the grad track program, the student must apply to the Toulouse Graduate School during their senior year for admission to the Electrical Engineering, MS, which should follow the same application procedure, application deadlines, and admission requirements as the regular graduate applications for admission to the Electrical Engineering, MS.

Program policies

After being accepted into the grad track option, the student then can take graduate courses in their senior year as Mechanical and Energy Engineering, BS electives to meet the bachelor’s degree requirements. In order for courses to be counted toward the MS degree, the student must meet the minimum grade requirements of the courses in the MS program. After being accepted into the grad track option, the student must complete the bachelor’s degree within one year of the first graduate level course they take.

Students admitted to the program will be admitted into the MS program on a conditional basis. Once the student has satisfied all requirements for the bachelor’s degree and maintained a GPA of 3.0 or higher, they will be fully admitted to the MS program.

The student must enroll in graduate school in the long semester within one year after receiving his or her bachelor’s degree and should complete the remaining graduate courses in the following year(s) to receive the MS degree. If the student does not enroll in graduate school in the long semester within one year after finishing the BS degree, those graduate credit hours will not be counted toward the MS degree, even if the student comes back to graduate school in the future.

Program requirements

The student is allowed to take one of the graduate courses listed below in the senior year of the program for a total of 3 hours (may be changed only if approved by both the Mechanical Engineering undergraduate and Electrical Engineering graduate coordinators):

BMEN 5324 – Applications of Biomedical MEMS

CSCE 5215 – Machine Learning

CSCE 5290 – Natural Language Processing

CSCE 5430 – Software Engineering

CSCE 5640 – Operating System Design

EENG 5310 - Control Systems Design

EENG 5320 - Systems Modeling and Simulation

EENG 5520 - Design and Testing of Digital Systems

EENG 5530 - Analog Integrated Circuit Design

EENG 5610 - Digital Signal Processing

EENG 5810 - Digital Communications

MEEN 5440 – Finite Element Analysis

MEEN 5610 – Sensors and Actuators

MTSE 5100 – Fundamental Concepts of Materials Science

MTSE 5500 – Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Materials

MTSE 5550 – Materials and Mechanics for MEMS Devices

MTSE 5560 – Compound Semiconductor Materials and Devices

In the senior year, in addition to the approved graduate courses, the student is required to take all remaining courses required for the Mechanical and Energy Engineering, BS.

After receiving his or her bachelor’s degree and being enrolled in the graduate program, the student is required to take all remaining courses required for the MS degree with a major in electrical engineering (see Graduate Catalog).