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ECE MASTER OF SCIENCE COMPREHENSIVE EXAM


Students graduating with an MS Degree must either submit a thesis or pass the written Comprehensive Exam. The written Comprehensive Exam will be given in the first weeks of the Fall quarter, and possibly in the first weeks of the Spring quarter, as needed.

Exam Format and Schedule

The written exam will be held on Saturday, October 17, 2009  from 8:00 am to noon in Warren Lecture Hall (WLH), room 2005.


Pass/Fail grades will be e-mailed to all students who took the exam the week following the exam.

Students who fail the written exam may petition to take an oral exam within one month.

Students may not retake the written comprehensive exam.

 

Comprehensive Exam (**)
Students must sign up for the exam by September 18, 2009.  To do so, please send an email to Bernadette Villaluz (villaluz@ece.ucsd.edu) specifying which depth topic you would like to be tested.


This exam is a written exam covering a broad range of topics at the undergraduate level plus a single depth topic (of your choice) at the graduate level.

The topics are:

  • Mathematics (required)
    •     - Practice Questions
        - Fall 2008
        - Spring 2009
    plus the student’s choice, during the exam, of any two of the following:

  • Electricity & Magnetism,
    •     - Practice Questions
        - Fall 2008
        - Spring 2009

  • Signals & Systems,
    •     - Practice Questions
        - Fall 2008
        - Spring 2009

  • Solid State Electronics,
    •     - Practice Questions
        - Fall 2008
        - Spring 2009

  • Circuits, and
    •     - Practice Questions
        - Fall 2008
        - Spring 2009
  • Logic Design.
    •     - Practice Questions
        - Fall 2008
        - Spring 2009

    plus one of the following depth topics (please specify your choice in your email to villaluz@ece.ucsd.edu):

  • Applied Physics - Electronic Devices & Materials
    •     - Practice Questions
        - Fall 2008
        - Spring 2009

  • Communication Theory & Systems
    •     - Practice Questions
        - Fall 2008

  • Computer Engineering
    •     - Practice Questions
        - Fall 2008
        - Spring 2009

  • Electronic Circuits & Systems
    •     - Practice Questions
        - Fall 2008
        - Spring 2009

  • Intelligent Systems, Robotics and Control
    •     - Practice Questions
        - Fall 2008
        - Spring 2009

  • Nanoscale Devices & Systems
    •     - Practice Questions
        - Fall 2008

  • Photonics
    •     - Practice Questions

  • Signal & Image Processing
    •     - Practice Questions
        - Fall 2008
        - Spring 2009

    Students must pass three of the four topics to pass the exam.

     ** If you would like to see questions from old exams (option A), please click here

    Written comprehensive examination guidelines for M.S. students can be viewed on this website: Degree Information and Procedures

     

    Contact

    Should you have questions that are not addressed on this website, you should direct them exclusively to Adolfo Juarez(ajuarez@ece.ucsd.edu)

    ** Effective Fall 2009, only one version of the exam will be offered, which is similar to the "Option B" exam offered in the 2008-2009 academic year.

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