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The Ohio State University

College of Engineering


MS non-thesis degree requirements

GE-ACE program

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General Electric employees may pursue a Master's non-thesis degree through the GE-ACE program. Includes unique degree requirements and other information specific to this program.

The master's degree program is designed to give students the opportunity to gain additional knowledge and necessary skills in a specific area of Materials Science. A non-thesis option master's primarily involves academic course work followed by the defense of a written document, such as critical literature review, during the final quarter of enrollment. The structured research component of the MS with Thesis is not present in the non-thesis option. The requirements for the MS non-thesis degree, as established by the MSE Graduate Studies Committee, are as follows:

I 45 total graduate credit hours are required for an MS degree.

Courses that apply toward the degree:

  • MSE courses at the 600 level or above that may be taken for graduate credit.
  • Non-MSE courses at the 500 level or greater in the hard-sciences, math, and engineering that may be taken for graduate credit.

A Of these 45 hours, at least 33 credit hours must be graded graduate level courses.

  1. Of these 33 hours, at least 18 credit hours must be taken in MSE.Of these 18 hours, at least 6 credit hours must be taken at the 700 level or above in MSE.
  2. Of these 33 hours, at least 15 credit hours in addition to the 18 listed in A1. These 15 hours may be taken within the Dept. or outside MSE--if taken outside MSE, it is understood that all 15 hours are to be related to the student's area of materials study unless previously approved by the Graduate Studies Committee.

B At least 12 hours of the 45 credit hours should come from other courses, besides those listed in A1&2, to bring the total graduate credit hours to 45 or greater.

  1. Of these 12 hours, no more than 6 credit hours of MSE 795 (Graduate Seminar and Colloquium) may apply towards this 12 hour total (though registration in MSE 795 is required for AU, WI, & SP quarters, regardless of the total number of 795 credits a student has earned, unless the student normally works off-campus).
  2. Credit for MSE 793 (Individual Study) may be earned toward fulfillment of this 12 hour minimum during completion of the written document (see II below).

II Submission of a written document

This document may be, for example, a critical review of a technical topic, presented to the examining committee for an oral defense. MSE 793 credit is earned during its preparation. PRIOR approval of the topic by the examining committee is REQUIRED. Approval of the topic is to take place before the end of the second quarter of study in the program.

 

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