1. Curriculum Sheets. These map out a typical course schedules for EE, CE, ECE, EE-Physics, CE-Physics, and the 5-year BS/MS programs in EE and CE. The ECE curriculum has considerable flexibility, so your schedule will probably not look just like what you see on the sheet (but it can!).
2. Graduation Requirements. This will let you keep track of what you still need to take to finish your degree. You can fill in the courses that you have taken.
3. Course Prerequisite Map. This helps you figure when to take the courses you need as prerequisites for the electives you want.
4. Projected Course Offerings. This is a schedule of when we plan to offer courses in the future, and will help you figure out when courses are available and when you will need to take any prerequisite courses.
This will be an iterative process, and you will probably change your mind as you go through the curriculum and learn more about what interests you. We suggest that you plan a schedule so that you understand how the curriculum works, knowing that you will probably modify it as you learn more in your time at Northeastern.
In general terms, you will need:
1. The two broad, introductory, sophomore-level ECE courses: Embedded Design: Enabling Robotics and Circuits and Signals: Biomedical Applications.
2. Four of the Fundamentals courses (or 6 for ECE majors).
3. Four ECE technical electives (can include Fundamentals courses).
4. Two semesters of capstone.
5. The required math and science courses for each major (8 courses, or 9 for ECE).
6. Two writing courses, as specified.
7. A level one social science elective and a level one arts or humanities elective.
8. GE 1000, GE1110, and GE1111.
9. In the EE or CE curriculum, these requirements leave you 5 general electives that can be anything that is not remedial or repetitive. If you take a minor or a combined major, you will use some or all of these general elective slots to satisfy the requirements.
10. You also have one "hole" in your schedule. That is, in 8 semesters you have room for 32 4-credit courses, but you are only required to take 31. So... You can leave more time in your schedule when you are taking capstone or in another semester that you need extra time, or you can take an extra elective.