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Students must take 3 required courses, 2-3 project-based elective courses, 0-1 topical design electives (15 credits minimum). Students may take up to 2 Professional Engineering (PE) courses as permitted.
Please note that EN.663.653 is also a requirement for MSEM’s Management Track.
Required:
EN.663.653 – Innovation and Design I – 3 credits
EN.663.657 Innovation and Design II – 3 credits
EN.660.xxx Action Lab – 3 credits
Project-Based Design Electives (2-3):
(Other team-based design courses may be approved by the student’s advisor on a case-by-case basis.)
| Course No. | Course Title | Semester | Credits | PE |
| EN.520.654 | Control System Design | Fall | 3 | |
| EN.520.657 | Design of Biomedical Instruments and Systems | Fall | 3 | |
| EN.520.663 | ECE Ideation and Design Lab* | Fall & Spring | 6 | |
| EN.520.738 | Advanced Electronic Lab Design | Spring | 3 | |
| EN.530.627 | Computer-Aided Design | Fall / Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.530.674 | Effective and Economic Design for Biomedical Instrumentation | Fall | 3 | |
| EN.530.721 | Medical Robotics System Design | Fall | 3 | |
| EN.635.661 | Principles of Human Computer Interaction | Fall | 3 | x |
| EN.540.621 | Project in Design: Pharmacodynamics | Spring | 3 | |
| EN.540.632 | Project in Design: Pharmacokinetics | Fall | 3 | |
| EN.575.736 | Designing for Sustainability: Applying a Decision Framework | Fall | 3 | x |
| EN.575.738 | Transportation, Innovation, and Climate Change | Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.580.697 | Biomedical Data Design* | Fall | 4 | |
| EN.580.638 | Biomedical Data Design II* | Spring | 4 | |
| EN.580.771 | Principles of the Design of Biomedical Instrumentation | Fall | 3 | |
| EN.585.702 | Medical Device Innovation and Design | Spring | 3 | |
| EN.601.686 | Machine Learning: Artificial Intelligence System Design & Development | Fall | 3 | |
| EN.605.768 | Advanced Game Design and Development Engines | Fall | 3 | x |
| EN.645.767 | System Conceptual Design | Fall / Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.645.768 | System Design & Integration | Fall / Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.655.767 | Healthcare System Conceptual Design | Fall / Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.655.768 | Healthcare System Design & Integration | Fall / Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.685.652 | Data Engineering Principles and Practice | Fall / Spring | 3 | x |
* two-semester sequence
Topical Design Electives (0-1)
(Other engineering design courses may be approved by the student’s advisor on a case-by-case basis.)
| Course No. | Course Title | Semester | Credits | PE |
| EN.510.636 | Biomaterials for Cell Engineering | Spring | 3 | |
| EN.510.640 | Stealth Science & Engineering | Fall | 3 | |
| EN.525.616 | Communication Systems Engineering | Fall / Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.525.624 | Analog Electronic Circuit Design | Fall / Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.525.634 | High Speed Digital Design | Fall / Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.525.642 | FPGA Design Using VHDL | Fall / Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.525.656 | Antenna Design for Space Systems | Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.525.658 | Digital VLSI System Design | Fall | 3 | x |
| EN.525.659 | Mixed-Mode VLSI Circuit Design | Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.525.684 | Microwave Systems & Receiver Design | Fall / Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.525.726 | Applications of Power Electronics Design | Fall | 3 | x |
| EN.525.732 | Advanced Analog Electronic Circuit Design | Fall / Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.525.742 | System-on-a-Chip FPGA Design Laboratory | Fall / Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.525.746 | Image Engineering | Fall / Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.525.787 | Microwave Monolithic Integrated Circuit Design | Fall | 3 | x |
| EN.525.788 | Power Microwave Monolithic Int Circuit Design | Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.525.790 | RF Power Amplifier Design Techniques | Fall | 3 | x |
| EN.530.623 | Design of Marine Robots | Spring | 3 | |
| EN.530.643 | Fundamentals, Design Principles and Applications of Microfluidic Systems | Fall | 3 | |
| EN.530.691 | Haptic Interface Design for Human-Robot Interaction | Fall | 3 | |
| EN.535.628 | Computer-Integrated Design and Manufacturing | Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.535.652 | Thermal Systems Design and Analysis | Fall | 3 | x |
| EN.535.660 | Precision Mechanical Design | Fall / Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.540.604 | Transport Phenomena in Practice | Spring | 3 | |
| EN.540.614 | Computational Protein Structure Prediction & Design | Fall | 3 | |
| EN.540.658 | Modeling and Design of Sustainable Chemical Processes | Spring | 3 | |
| EN.540.671 | Advanced Thermodynamics in Practice | Spring | 3 | |
| EN.540.673 | Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering in Practice | Spring | 3 | |
| EN.540.674 | Advanced Separation and Purification Processes in Practice | Fall | 3 | |
| EN.560.629 | Preservation Engineering I: Theory and Practice | Fall | 3 | |
| EN.560.636 | Lateral Forces: Analysis and Design of Building Structures | Spr | 3 | |
| EN.560.661 | Additive Manufacturing and Design | Fall | 3 | |
| EN.570.695 | Environmental Health & Engineering Systems Design | Fall | 3 | |
| EN.580.689 | Modern Optical Microscopy: Theory and Practice | Fall | 3 | |
| EN.580.720 | Immunomodulatory Biomaterials: Design, Synthesis, and Applications | Spring | 3 | |
| EN.595.793 | Applied Innovation for Technical Professionals | Fall | 3 | x |
| EN.601.625 | Software System Design | Fall | 3 | |
| EN.605.607 | Agile Software Development Method | Fall / Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.605.615 | Compiler Design with LLVM | Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.605.704 | Object-Oriented Analysis and Design | Fall / Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.605.789 | Service API Design and Development | Fall / Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.635.792 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Corporate Success | Fall | 3 | x |
| EN.675.622 | Spacecraft Hardware Design Considerations | Fall / Spring | 3 | x |
| EN.705.651 | Large Language Models: Theory and Practice | Fall | 3 | x |