Minor: Computer Engineering

OVERVIEW OF DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Minimum number of credits required to earn minor: 21-22

Minimum Cumulative GPA required to earn minor: 2.0

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

Other GPA requirements to earn minor: None.

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 12-13 credit hours of required courses and a minimum of nine credit hours of ECE elective courses.

Core Courses (12-13 credit hours)

ECE 177 - Introduction to Programming for Engineers Credits: 4
ECE 210 - Electric Circuits Credits: 4
or
ECE 209 - Fundamentals of Electric Circuits Credits: 3
ECE 271 - Microcomputer Architecture and Applications Credits: 3
ECE 275 - Sequential Logic Systems Credits: 3

Examples of Optional Courses: (9 credit hours minimum)

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

ECE 331 - Introduction to Unix Systems Administration Credits: 3
ECE 417 - Introduction to Robotics Credits: 3
ECE 471 - Embedded Systems Credits: 3
ECE 473 - Computer Architecture and Organization Credits: 4
ECE 477 - Hardware Applications Using C Credits: 3
ECE 478 - Industrial Computer Control Credits: 3
ECE 486 - Digital Signal Processing Credits: 4
COS 431 - Operating Systems Credits: 3