Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

In addition to the Qualifying Examination, students are required to take 5 courses that will provide breadth to their program of study.

All five courses must be taken at Iowa State University, with at least one course to be from outside the department (400-level or higher) and the remaining to be taken within the department. The following list of courses CANNOT be used to fulfill this breadth requirement within the same area that you are taking the written examination.

You may include any other graduate (500-level or higher) courses that are not on this list from within your area or all graduate courses outside the area.

Communications and Signal Processing:

EE 520, EE 521, EE 523, EE 524, EE 527, EE 528, EE 573, EE 621X, EE 622X

Computer Systems Architecture:

CprE 541, CprE 542, CprE 543, CprE 545, CprE 582, CprE 583, CprE 585, CprE 586, CprE 588

Electric Power and Energy Systems:

EE 553, EE 554, EE 555, EE 653

Information Systems Security and Networking:

CprE 530, CprE 531, CprE 532, CprE 533, CprE 535X, CprE 536X, CprE 537

Microelectronics and Photonics:

EE 530G, EE 530H, EE 532, EE 535, EE 536, EE 538, EE 590H, EE 690

Nondestructive Evaluation and Electromagnetics:

EE 512, EE 513, EE 514, EE 516X, EE 517, EE 519

Software Systems:

CprE 526, CprE 550X, CprE 556, CprE 558, CprE 626

Systems and Controls:

EE 573, EE 574, EE 575, EE 576, EE 577, EE 578

VLSI (EE major):

EE/CprE 434, EE/CprE 435, EE/CprE 465, EE/CprE 501, EE/CprE 505, EE/CprE 507, EE 508

VLSI (CprE major):

EE/CprE 434, EE/CprE 435, EE/CprE 465, EE/CprE 501, CprE 563, CprE 564, CprE 566, CprE 567