Rowan ECE Curriculum

Rowan ECE Curriculum with Rowan Core (Fall 2021 and beyond)

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Use this curriculum, if you entered the program as a first-year student in Fall 2021 or later. If you entered the program as a transfer student before Fall 2023 or a first-year student before Fall 2021, please use the former ECE curriculum (click link or scroll below).  

Total Program Credits: 128

Notes:

Courses listed in boldface need to be completed with a minimum grade higher than D+ (C or C-, depending on the course) to satisfy the prerequisites of one or more subsequent courses.

1.  C++ or Java-based course.
   
   
2. Junior Engineering Clinic and Senior Engineering Clinic must each be taken twice, once in Fall and once in Spring.
   
   
3. Must be one of the following approved courses: CCHEM 06.100 College Chemistry I, BIOL 01.112 General Biology, Environmental Focus, BIOL 01.113 General Biology, Human Focus; BIOL 01.115 General Biology – Plants and People; BIOL 10.210 Human Anatomy and Physiology; PHYS 00300 Modern Physics; PHYS 00221 Introductory Thermo, Fluid, Wave and Optics.
   
   
4. Business elective must be one of the following: ECON 04.101 Introduction to Macroeconomics, ECON 04.102 Introduction to Microeconomics, ENT 06.240 Entrepreneurship and Innovation, or ENT 06.326 Small Business Management.
   
   
5. The ECE program requires a total of five technical electives. In general,  we recommend that you take a diverse set of electives to broaden your scope on both traditional Computer Engineering (CpE), Electrical Engineering (EE), as well as cross-cutting and emerging topics. An ECE elective is generally a 400-level ECE course that is not already required under core requirements. ECE program allows one non-ECE course to be counted towards ECE electives as long as that course is i) a 400-level course; and ii) has technical content that is reasonably associated with engineering. Most 400-level non-ECE engineering courses will qualify, as well as some courses from other colleges. If you want to take a non-ECE class, please check with the UG chair and/or Department Head to make sure that it will count towards ECE electives.
   NEW - Effective Fall 2022:
   a. We now offer Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) courses. Select EET courses - including some 300-level ones - are also available and will count towards ECE electives.
   b. Students who are completing a department approved official co-op program may count ECE 09.499 Co-op Experience in ECE towards one ECE elective. 
   
   
6. Rowan Core requires six literacies: Communication, Quantitative, Scientific, Artistic, Global, Humanistic. The first three are satisfied by major courses. The remaining three must be taken from the appropriate bank of courses, one of which must carry the "Literature" attribute. Some business electives may satisfy HUML requirements. 
   
   
7. OOD / Multidisciplinary experience requirement can be satisfied by either
   a. Participating in one out-of-discipline clinic project;
   b. Providing consulting services to a non-ECE clinic or another research project through Clinic Consultant;
   c.Taking a non-ECE class as an elective, or an elective offered by the ECE Department but one that is clearly outside of the traditional boundaries of ECE providing non-ECE content (such as bioinformatics, biomedical systems and devices);
   d. Completing a Minor in any field (which automatically satisfied item (c) above). 

Rowan ECE Curriculum with Rowan Core (Pre Fall 2021)

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If you have entered the program before Fall 2021, you are under the following curriculum:

Total Program Credits: 128

Notes:

Courses listed in boldface need to be completed with a minimum grade higher than D+ (C or C-, depending on the course) to satisfy the prerequisites of one or more subsequent courses.

0. Junior Engineering Clinic and Senior Engineering Clinic must each be taken twice, once in Fall and once in Spring.

1. Rowan Core requires six literacies: Communication, Quantitative, Scientific, Artistic, Global, Humanistic. The first three are satisfied by major courses. The remaining three must be taken from appropriate bank of courses, one of which must carry "Literature" attribute. Some business electives may satisfy HUML requirement. 

2. Java-based language course if available.

3. Must be one of the following approved courses: CCHEM 06.100 College Chemistry I, BIOL 01.112 General Biology, Environmental Focus, BIOL 01.113 General Biology, Human Focus; BIOL 01.115 General Biology – Plants and People; BIOL 10.210 Human Anatomy and Physiology; PHYS 00300 Modern Physics; PHYS 00221 Introductory Thermo, Fluid, Wave and Optics.

4. Business elective must be one of the following: ECON 04.101 Introduction to Macroeconomics, ECON 04.102 Introduction to Microeconomics, ENT 06.240 Entrepreneurship and Innovation, or ENT 06.326 Small Business Management.

5. The ECE program requires a total of five technical electives. In general,  we recommend that you take a diverse set of electives to broaden your scope on both traditional Computer Engineering (CpE), Electrical Engineering (EE), as well as cross-cutting and emerging topics. An ECE elective is a 400-level ECE course that is not already required under core requirements. ECE program allows one non-ECE course to be counted towards ECE electives as long as that course is i) a 400-level course; and ii) has technical content that is reasonably associated with engineering. Most 400-level non-ECE engineering courses will qualify, as well as some courses from other colleges. If you want to take a non-ECE class, please check with the UG chair and/or Department Head to make sure that it will count towards ECE electives.  

6. OOD / Multidisciplinary experience requirement can be satisfied by either

a. Participating in one out-of-discipline clinic project
b. Providing consulting services to a non-ECE clinic or another research project through Clinic Consultant;
c.Taking a non-ECE class as an elective, or an elective offered by the ECE Department but one that is clearly outside of the traditional boundaries of ECE providing non-ECE content (such as bioinformatics, biomedical systems and devices)
d. Completing a Minor in any field (which automatically satisfied item (c) above)