High-Speed Digital Engineering Program FAQs

It is a Professional Master’s degree program offered by CU Boulder’s Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (ECEE) in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. It leads to a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (MSEE). Through five core courses and five elective options, students enrolled in this program pursue a ten course, 30-credit-hour, MSEE degree.

The emphasis of this program is on gaining the practical skills required to be a successful design team member and be able to quickly and efficiently solve signal integrity, power integrity and EMC problems. This means having a firm grasp of the fundamental principles, hands-on familiarity with the design tools, simulation tools, and measurement tools. The core curriculum emphasizes mastery of the industry established best design practices, best measurement practices and best analysis practices. Most courses emphasize practical, hands-on experience, understanding and solving real world problems faced by the electronics industry today. 

30 credit hours of graduate-level coursework are required, this is typically 10 courses.

Five core courses in High Speed Digital Engineering are required:

ECEN 5224 High Speed Digital Design,

ECEN 5514 Principles of EM for HSDE,  

ECEN 5524 Principles of Computational Electromagnetics for Signal and Power Integrity,

ECEN 5534 Measurement Techniques for Signal Integrity,

ECEN 5730 Fabrication and Measurement Techniques for High Speed Printed Circuit Board Design and Debugging

Of the remaining five courses, at least two must be approved High Speed Digital Engineering technical electives.