The M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (Thesis or Non-Thesis Option) requires 30 credit hours. Requirements for the thesis M.S. are 24 hours of coursework and 6 hours of thesis research. The non-thesis option requires 30 hours of coursework. A maximum of 6 Independent Study course units can be used to fulfill degree requirements.

The EECS department has nine areas of research activity that stem from the core fields of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science: (1) Antennas and Wireless Communications, (2) Applied Algorithms and Data Structures, (3) Education (4) Energy Systems and Power Electronics, (5) High Performance Computing, (6) Human-Centered Robotics, (7) Information and Systems Sciences, (8) Machine Learning, and (9) Networking. Additionally, students may study areas such as Embedded Systems and/or Robotics, which include elements from both Computer Science and Electrical Engineering disciplines. In many cases, individual research projects encompass more than one research area.