Program Overview

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Online Graduate Certificate Advanced Control Systems Electrical and Computer Engineering

The graduate certificate in Advanced Control Systems incorporates the broad range of control systems into its curriculum. Students enrolled in this certificate will take two required courses and two elective courses.

Required Courses

• ELEC ENG 5300 Digital Control
• ELEC ENG 6300 Linear Control Systems

Elective Courses

• ELEC ENG 5320 Neural Networks Control and Applications
• ELEC ENG 5330 Fuzzy Logic Control
• ELEC ENG 5350 Plantwide Process Control
• ELEC ENG 5360 System Simulation And Identification
• ELEC ENG 5380 Autonomous Mobile Robots
• ELEC ENG 6310 Optimal Control And Estimation
• ELEC ENG 6330 Robust Control Systems
• ELEC ENG 6390 Current Topics In Control Theory
• ELEC ENG 6335 Discrete-Time Neural Network Control or ELEC ENG 6350 Neural Network Control of Nonlinear Continuous-time Systems
• ELEC ENG 5325 Applied Nonlinear Control or ELEC ENG 6320 Nonlinear Control Systems

Alternative courses may be substituted with departmental approval.

Admission Requirements

This graduate certificate is open to all persons holding a bachelor's degree in any field of engineering from an ABET-accredited undergraduate program, or a degree in a closely related technical field such as physics or mathematics. Minimum undergraduate GPA ≥ 2.5 is required. Students who do not have all of the prerequisite courses necessary to take the courses in the certificate program will be allowed to take "bridge" courses at either the graduate or undergraduate level to prepare for the formal certificate.

Once admitted to the program, the student must take four designated courses. In order to receive a graduate certificate, the student must have an average GPA of ≥ 3.0 in the certificate courses taken.

Students admitted to the certificate program will have non-degree graduate status and be given three years to complete the certificate program.

When the graduate certificate is successfully completed, the student can apply for admission to the master's degree program in electrical engineering, provided that all other program prerequisites and admission requirements are met. The credit earned in the graduate certificate program will count toward the master's degree.

Pathway to a Master's Degree

The graduate certificate program is designed as a pathway to a master's degree. Completion of a graduate certificate program does not automatically guarantee admission into a corresponding graduate degree program. To continue in a master's degree program, you must apply.

Related Degrees

This graduate certificate may act as a pathway to the following master's programs:

• Electrical Engineering (MS)