Admission requirements

Students applying to the grad track option should be majors in the Computer Science, BS  program. Students are eligible to apply to the grad track option during their junior year, after completing at least 75 credit hours. Other requirements include:

• A cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher is required at the time of application
• A personal statement, curriculum vitae and two letters of recommendation from materials science and engineering faculty members

The student’s application will be reviewed by both undergraduate and graduate advisors in the respective BS and MS programs. Once approved, the student must apply to the Toulouse Graduate School within the first semester of their senior year.

Program policies

After completing at least 90 credit hours and after authorization from undergraduate and graduate advisors, the student may begin taking graduate courses as electives for the BS requirements. Students should earn a B or higher in these graduate courses to be counted toward the MS degree.

Students admitted to the grad track option will be admitted to the MS on a conditional basis. Once the student has satisfied all course work for the BS degree and maintained a GPA of 3.0 or higher, they will be fully admitted to the MS program with all the rights and privileges of a graduate student.

The student must enroll in the graduate school in the long semester after finishing the BS degree and should take the remaining graduate courses in the following year(s) to complete the MS degree. If the student does not enroll in the graduate school in the long semester after finishing the BS degree, those graduate course credit hours will not be counted for the MS degree, even if the student comes back for graduate school in the future.

The student will be awarded the BS degree immediately upon successful completion of the requirements for the undergraduate degree.

Program requirements

Students in the grad track option may choose 9 hours from the following graduate-level courses to replace electives in the BS degree with the approval of the undergraduate coordinator and advisor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the graduate coordinator in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

• BMEN 5324 – Applications of Biomedical MEMS 
• CSCE 5210 – Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence 
• CSCE 5215 – Machine Learning 
• CSCE 5380 – Data Mining 
• MEEN 5140 – Advanced Mathematical Methods for Engineers 
• MEEN 5300 – Advanced Thermodynamics 
• MEEN 5310 – Conduction and Radiation Heat Transfer 
• MEEN 5440 – Finite Element Analysis 
• MEEN 5520 – Advanced Manufacturing 
• MEEN 5610 – Sensors and Actuators 
• MTSE 5000 – Thermodynamics of Materials 
• MTSE 5010 – Bonding, Structure, and Crystallography 
• MTSE 5020 – Mechanical Properties of Materials 
• MTSE 5070 – Tribology of Materials 
• MTSE 5100 – Fundamental Concepts of Materials Science 
• MTSE 5200 – Advanced Concepts of Metallurgical Science 
• MTSE 5210 – Corrosion and Oxidation of Materials 
• MTSE 5300 – Science and Technology of Modern Ceramics 
• MTSE 5400 – Advanced Polymer Physics and Chemistry 
• MTSE 5500 – Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Materials 
• MTSE 5520 – Physical and Chemical Based Integrated Circuit Fabrication 
• MTSE 5550 – Materials and Mechanics for MEMS Devices 
• MTSE 5560 – Compound Semiconductor Materials and Devices 
• MTSE 5600 – Materials Characterization 
• MTSE 5610 – Fundamentals of Surface Thin Film Analysis 
• MTSE 5620 – Scanning Electronic and Ion Microscopy 
• MTSE 5710 – Computational Materials Science 

If the student wishes to take other graduate courses to satisfy the grad track option requirements, he or she will need to obtain approval from both the undergraduate advisor in Computer Science and Engineering and graduate advisor in Materials Science and Engineering. Students should earn a B or higher in these courses in order to be counted toward the MS degree.

All remaining courses for the Computer Science, BS  must be completed according to the catalog.