Students who select to earn the MSME or MSE degrees can accept University Fellowship or Departmental Graduate Assistantships, if offered. The MME degree requires an additional 12 hours of approved electives, for a total of 33 semester hours. A thesis is different from a project in that the thesis must follow the guidelines of the College of Engineering and the Graduate School. Theses are kept in the College of Engineering library and the University of South Florida library as well as the University Archives. A project is similar in format to a thesis except that it is only kept in the College of Engineering Library.
Projects are normally of a design nature rather than an analysis nature.
All degrees require a minimum of 16 hours of work at the 6000 level and can accept a maximum of 6 hours of credit at the 4000 level. A GPA of 3.0 or higher is required for graduation and no grade below C can be credited towards the degree. Students should be aware that merely satisfying hourly requirements with satisfactory grades will not meet requirements for the degree. It is critical that each student have a supervisory committee appointed and approved by the department chairman as early as possible. Failure to do so may result in taking courses which the committee may not approve.