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2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Minor: Computer Engineering


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OVERVIEW OF DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Minimum number of credits required to earn minor: 19

GPA requirements to earn minor: 2.0

Minimum Grade requirements for courses to count toward minor: No grades below C-.

Contact Information: Donald Hummels, Chair and Castle Professor, 101 Barrows Hall, 207-581 -2223, donald.hummels@maine.edu


PLEASE NOTE: This minor is not available to Electrical Engineering and/or Computer Engineering majors.

The Computer Engineering Minor is designed to provide engineering majors outside of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and students from other disciplines an introduction to the wide-ranging content of the computer engineering major. The minor consists of 13 credit hours of required courses and a minimum of six credit hours of ECE elective courses.

Examples of Optional Courses: (Six credit hours minimum)


 Generally any Computer focused 300 or 400 level ECE course counts as an optional course.

Note for Computer Science Majors


For students majoring in Computer Science:

  • ECE 177 can be substituted by COS 225 (Introduction to Object Oriented Programming and Design) Credits: 4
  • ECE 271 can be substituted by COS 335 (Computer Organization and Architecture) Credits: 4
  • ECE 331 can be substituted by COS 431 (Operating Systems)  Credits: 3

 

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