Electrical Computer Engineering

Address
University of Missouri-Kansas City
546 Robert H. Flarsheim Science and Technology Hall
5110 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110-2499

(816) 235-1193
Fax: (816) 235-5159

Undergraduate Programs

A BS/MS Option for completing both an undergraduate degree and a masters degree within five years is available for ECE/EE.

The bachelor of science in electrical and computer engineering (B.S.) is for students wanting to pursue a career in electrical engineering or electrical and computer engineering.

Graduate Programs:

Electrical Computer Engineering also participates in the Ph.D. program of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. This program is administered through the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and requires a student to select both a primary discipline and a co-discipline. Many doctoral students choose both primary and co-disciplines in our department or the School of Science and Engineering, but other disciplines can be taken as well. For more information, please refer to the School of Graduate Studies in this catalog.

Academic Regulations for Electrical and Computer Engineering

Minimum Grade Requirement

A grade of "C-" or better must be earned in all major courses required in the electrical and computer engineering degree programs.

Audits

A student cannot take a course for audit and later expect to take the same course for credit in the degree program. For that reason, students must not audit any courses required in their program, unless credit has already been established. To audit an elective course, written consent from both the student’s advisor and the instructor of the course is required. After the first week of classes, a student cannot change from credit to audit or audit to credit.

Petitions

To receive an exception from stated departmental guidelines or curriculum, the student must file a petition with the academic advisor. For transfer credit taken at another institution that is not articulated, a student may need to submit a petition to receive transfer credit.  If the petition is denied by the Electrical & Computer Engineering Degree Program Committee, the student may appeal the decision to the Dean of the School of Science & Engineering.

Academic Standing

The University tries to assure that students progress satisfactorily toward their goals and receive clear warning when they do not. The Electrical & Computer Engineering program follows the university policy related to Academic Standing.

Satisfactory Academic Progress

Students will be expected to maintain continuous satisfactory academic progress and can be removed from the civil engineering program after evaluation by the Academic Committee if it finds that satisfactory academic progress is not being made.

Academic Appeals

If a student has become academically ineligible, the student may be allowed to continue academic studies, provided that the student successfully appeals to the Academic Appeals Committee. The primary concern of the Appeals Committee is the likelihood of the student’s future success. Accordingly, any appeal should include causes for the student’s past poor performance and reasons for expecting better performance in the future. When the Appeals Committee allows a student to re-enroll, it may set conditions such as courses to be taken, minimum grades, total hours, etc. to which the student must adhere.A grade-point average deficiency may be removed by repeating a course or by taking additional courses that qualify as eligible electives in the curriculum.

Financial Assistance for Doctoral Students

Graduate assistantships are available to prospective doctoral students, but are highly competitive. Currently, most full-time Ph.D. students in the CSEE department are supported either as a graduate assistant or as graduate research assistant, or as graduate teaching assistant.

Doctoral students already in the program are eligible to apply for several fellowships available from the School of Graduate Studies. Check the School of Graduate Studies Web site at www.umkc.edu/sgs/financial.asp for additional information.