Our program

Curriculum

MTIS consists of 9 technical and 3 professional career development courses for a total of 12 courses (16.5 units). Of the 9 technical courses, 4 are required, while 5 are electives to be chosen by the student.

Four core technical courses

• ECE514 - Design and Analysis of Computer Communication Networks
• ECE567 - Advanced Network Security
• ECE570 - Computer Forensics Methodologies
• ECE597 - Capstone Project

Three core professional development courses

• ECE591 - Professional Foundation (1.0)
• ECE592A - Professional Career Development I (1.0)
• ECE592B - Professional Career Development II (1.0)

Electives

Students must complete three elective courses from List 1, and also complete another two electives courses from either List 1 or 2.

List 1 elective courses

• CSC529 - Cryptography
• ECE512 - Digital Communications
• ECE515 - Information Theory
• ECE516 - Advanced Wireless Communications
• ECE548 - Cyber-System Security
• ECE572 - Security, Privacy, and Data Analytics
• ECE574 - Practice of Information Security and Privacy

List 2 elective courses

• CSC503 - Data Mining
• CSC567 - Switching, Network Traffic and Quality of Service
• CSC569 - Wireless and Mobile Networks
• CSC579 - Overlay and Peer-to-Peer Networking
• ECE504 - Random Signals
• ECE511 - Error Control Coding
• ECE522 - Antennas and Propagation
• ECE535 - Data Analysis and Pattern Recognition
• ECE586 - Multiresolution Signal and Geometry Processing With C++
• ECE590 - Directed Study

Notes: ECE 590 is subject to approval.

Up to 3.0 units at the 400-level may also be taken for credit, subject to approval.

Selected topics

In addition, some of the following Selected Topics courses may qualify as a List 1 or List 2 elective, upon approval:

• ECE519A - Selected Topics in Digital Communications
• ECE519B - Selected Topics in Computer Communications
• ECE519C - Selected Topics in Secure Communications
• ECE569A - Selected Topics in Computer Engineering