General Information

The M.Eng. program is designed for part-time study by practicing engineers and is based on a set of courses, normally offered in the evenings, plus a project performed in industry. The principal areas of study offered in the M.Eng. program are electronics, communications and signal processing. The M.A.Sc., on the other hand, is a full-time program in which primary emphasis is on the thesis, rather than course work. It is more exploratory than the M.Eng., and hence the areas of study cover a greater range.

Admission

The normal admission requirement to the M.Eng. and M.A.Sc. program is a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Engineering Science or a related area, with a cumulative G.P.A. of at least 3.0 (B) from a recognized university, or the equivalent. Note that the size of the faculty limits the number of M.A.Sc. students.

Transfer from M.Eng. Program to M.A.Sc. Program

Normally transfer from M.Eng. Program to M.A.Sc. Program will be considered under the following conditions:

Undergraduate GPA. Minimum undergraduate CGPA of 3.3 required
M.Eng. GPA. On at least to courses, a minimum CGPA of 3.5

Degree Requirements

Course Work
M.Eng. candidates are required to complete a minimum of 21 semester hours course work at the graduate level. Of the courses in the Graduate Courses list, students must take ENSC 820. In addition for those specializing in communications, ENSC 805, ENSC 810 are required, for those in electronics, one of ENSC 851, ENSC 852 or ENSC 853 must be taken, and for students in intelligent systems and control, ENSC 801 must be taken.

Project
A key component of the M. Eng. program is a significant industrial project which integrates knowledge gained during the course of the student's graduate studies. This project is to be performed in the workplace, typically in industry or government laboratories. An appropriate level of design, documentation and reporting responsibility is required. The project would be expected to take a minimum of two person-months.

During the project, the student will receive academic supervision, as required, from the student's senior supervisor at the university, and day-to-day supervision from the student's manager, or a designated associate, in his or her place of work. The industrial supervisors, who will sit on the student's Supervisory Committee, will be appointed by the Faculty. In the case of very small companies, alternative arrangements will be made for supervision.

In addition to submission of a technical report at the completion of the project, the student will make an oral presentation to at least the Supervisory Committee and the graduate chair or his/her designate.

M.Eng. Fees

Students registered in the Master of Engineering degree program may complete their program before they have paid the minimum total fee for a Master's degree. In such cases, an additional payment would be required prior to graduation to satisfy the minimum fee requirement of 6 full-time fee units. See Graduate Fees in the SFU Calendar or at http://www.reg.sfu.ca/ for more details.

Application Procedures

Application forms are avaliable either via the Registrar's Office or online in both postscript and pdf format.