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Earn Your Master's in Computer Engineering in USA
For students who want to expand their technical expertise, the Syracuse University's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) offers master of science (M.S.) degrees in computer engineering. Computer Engineering’s popularity and relevance have grown tremendously with the recent proliferation of digital computers in our daily lives. The Master of Science in Computer Engineering (MSCE) program in the Department of EECS has three areas of primary focus:
1) Hardware Systems: including the design and test of VLSI systems, performance, and analysis of complex hardware systems, design methodology based on formal methods and CAD tools.
2) Software Systems: including the development of large software systems, analysis of the performance of programs, the design of reusable software.
3) Assured Systems: including computer and network security, formal methods, and verification. More details about these focus areas are given at the end of this section.
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The Master of Science in Computer Engineering program teaches students to create groundbreaking hardware, software, and assured solutions for new and emerging systems. The M.S. in Computer Engineering curriculum is crafted around our faculty’s groundbreaking research in the areas of: Artificial intelligence; Application of data mining methodologies; Assured systems that degrade the face of attack and failure; and the Intersection of computational complexity, formal methods, and programing language semantics. Students learn innovative thinking strategies and solve computer engineering challenges in areas such as security and assurance, network systems, computer architecture, and advanced programming.
Graduates from our master’s programs are well represented in such corporations as IBM, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Intel.
Computer Engineering
Student Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate the ability to specify system functionality, map the functionality into layers of design abstraction, and translate the functionality at each layer into component level design.
- Demonstrate the ability to design and conduct experiments, simulations, and verification, as well as analyze and interpret the results.
- Demonstrate proficiency in the use of advanced mathematical and analytical techniques and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.
- Demonstrate the proficiency in system modeling, architecture, design and implementation using hardware description languages or diagramming and analysis tools.
- Demonstrate the ability to analyze hardware/software application requirement and apply the knowledge of system, architecture, and design methodology to perform application development.
- Apply knowledge of computer architecture (including supports for parallelism) to achieve software performance goals
Employment Outcomes
- Companies that hire our graduates: IBM, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hitachi Energy, Huawei, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Nvidia, Samsung, Tesla, Tableau, US Renal Care, Walmart Global Tech, Yahoo, WebAI, Vivo Communication Technology Co. Ltd., & many more.
- Job location: 88% in the US, 12% outside of US
- Job titles: Net Developer, Associate Software Engineer, Electrical Product Engineer, Embedded Systems Software Engineer, Founder, iOS Developer, Java Developer, Jr. Software Engineer, MTS-2 Software Engineer, Principal Engineer, Program Engineer/ Software Engineer, Programmer Analyst, Research Engineer, RF Engineer, Systems Design Engineer, Senior Engineer, Senior Product and Applications Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Software Developer, Software Engineer, System operator, Technology Analyst, Test Engineer
- Base salary range: $45,000 – $120,000 or more
- Median base salary range: $110,000 – $114,999
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