hello and welcome to today's
webinar for the Master of Science and
electrical engineering from the
University of Colorado Boulder my name
is Diana Sunshine and I'm on the
Coursera team working with the boulder
team and I'm really excited to welcome
you to today's webinar the first thing I
want everyone to do is to get used to
the zoom interface and if you mouse over
towards the bottom you're going to be
able to see that there's a QA polling
and a chat screen and if you click on
chat if you can just start typing in
where you are coming in from today
typically we see people engaging with us
from all around the world so we're
really excited oh I see New York India
Wooster Ohio Canada Kansas City New
Jersey Long Beach this is great and I'm
someone from Costa Rica so fabulous so
um I'd like to say good morning good
afternoon good evening for wherever you
are coming in from are very very very
excited to have you today the second
thing I'd like to do is I'm gonna put
out a poll so that you can get used to
how we do polls on here and I'm gonna
launch a poll right now and this is to
see um if you have attended the previous
webinar we're really interested to see
did any of you attend the one on April
25th if not did you watch the recording
or did you do both or not so as soon as
we get some of the polls information in
here I will share that out to everyone
people are still answering right now and
that's wonderful the other the final
thing is that we're going to be taking
all of our questions and answers from
the Q&A section at the bottom what we
would like to ask is that you don't ask
any questions until the presentation is
over because we find that most the
questions are answered during the
presentation and then it gets hard for
us to understand which questions to ask
so make sure that you hold your
questions to the very end and I am going
to share the poll that just came out and
it looks like that most people have did
not intend on attend the last webinar so
this is great this is kind of all new
information for you I'd like to
introduce our panelists we have Bob
Erickson who is the department chair for
electrical
engineering at Boulder and we have Adam
Sadoff who is the graduate advisor so in
Erik I'm handing it off to you okay good
afternoon
so I'm Bob Erickson I'm professor and
the department chair of electrical
computer and energy engineering as Dana
said I'm the graduate advisory in this
department hello I'm Robin McClanahan
I'm manager of operations for the
department and I will be fielding the
questions for the two presenters great
so to get started we'll just describe
what we're gonna be going over today and
that will involve an overview of the MS-EE
degree followed by many of the common
questions that we've received in the
recent months weeks and days leading up
to this webinar and followed ultimately
by your own questions which again we
would request that you submit at the end
of our presentation so we're excited to
offer the world's first EMS electrical
engineering degree that is available via
the MOOC format through Coursera this
degree is at the same level and same
material as our regular resident or
on-campus degree but it is offered
through the online 100% online MOOC
format so it's designed really to be
customizable and really meet the needs
of distance students typically working
professionals or international students
are those who can't come to campus and
need more flexibility
the
we rely on a performance-based
admissions process that is supposed to
be streamlined and very easy so the the
level of the courses is the same
graduate technical level as our regular
on-campus graduate degree but we don't
require the formal admissions process
rather we ask you to show that you can
handle the work basically and so we ask
you to take a full course of
specialization for credit and earn
maintain a grade point average of at
least 3.0 or be average to show that you
can handle the work you can then push a
button and and enroll or be enrolled as
a degree student okay and you'll earn it
the degree that is the same as the
on-campus students so you'll get a
diploma that says master of science and
electrical engineering there are no
further qualifications it doesn't say
online or anything like that you can get
transcript transcripts of your earned
credits and again they're simply regular
regular courses that that do not have
any further qualifiers such as online we
have been asked about accreditation and
our innovative curriculum has received
accreditation from the Higher Learning
Commission the HLC
this means you've received the same
high-quality educational experience as
our traditional on-campus program as
Professor Erickson is just said and if
you choose to pursue the full degree the
credits will carry with it the same
weight as any on-campus CU master's
degree our courses are available both in
non-credit and for credit format and
what what we suggest that you do if
you're not sure whether
you have the prerequisite knowledge is
to give it a try so sign up for the
non-credit version of the course or
specialization and see how it goes and
if you find that you can handle the
material then you're able to upgrade
from the non-credit version to the for
credit version at anytime in the middle
of the course so your assignments that
you complete it in the non-credit
version will then be applied or loaded
into the for credit experience you look
at that time within paid tuition and
complete the the material for the the
for credit version so non-credit courses
do not confer of course credit they
don't appear on your university
transcript they of course don't apply
towards the degree or towards university
certificates you can receive Coursera
certificates at upon completion of a
non-credit course so here's a little
diagram of what you do oops
so you can for some of the course
content you can actually view the
material for free on a trial basis you
can pay a monthly subscription through
Coursera to sign up for the full
non-credit version that includes graded
assignments and when you complete a
specialization in the non-credit version
then you can earn Coursera certificates
of completion and again at any time
during the non-credit version you can
upgrade to the for credit version by
paying University tuition and then
you'll do the additional work such as
taking exams and earning grades that
would then appear on your universe
city transcript and regarding that
tuition you would pay per credit hour
not per semester which allows for
maximum flexibility tuition is assessed
on a pay-as-you-go per course basis many
courses invite students to test their
skills through hands-on labs or
exercises in these courses curate sets
of lab kits for students to purchase and
use at home the lab kits are around U.S.
twenty dollars more information can be
found in the course description pages we
have attempted to make the registration
process as simple and streamlined as we
can so it is an automated enrollment and
registration process you can register
for a credit version of a course at any
time and you can again be admitted into
the degree program for completion of a
pathway specialization you pay as you go
on the tuition as Adam just mentioned so
you'll pay by the course at the rate of
six hundred sixty seven dollars per
credit hour so we will offer several of
our specializations on a limited
enrollment basis this October and then
we'll offer the full degree program
beginning in January so the for-credit
version for the October launch you'll be
able to register pay tuition and enroll
in September there will be limited
enrollments in the three specializations
that we offer then so they will fill up
at some point in October the first
courses of the pathway specializations
will be available and you can start them
before then you can sign up for the
non-credit versions if you like
get a head start and then as if you
complete all of the courses within the
pathway specialization with an overall
grade point average of at least B or 3.0
then you can ask to be admitted to the
degree program and and you will be
automatically admitted upon request upon
your request we will have offer both the
degree Master of Science and electrical
engineering which requires 30 credit
hours of completed work with an overall
grade point average of at least B so as
if you continue in the program when you
learn the 30 credits you will receive at
the diploma and the Master of Science
degree we will also offer certificates
which you can take either along the way
in the degree program or you can take
them without being admitted to the
degree program but by taking the the
credit versions of the courses these
generally are nine credit hours of
courses in a in a unified topic so the
degree is designed to be customizable
and flexible to meet the needs of
working professionals and international
students and distance learners as
Professor Erickson described previously
the duration of time the coursework
takes will vary student by student any
given course and may require as many as
four to six hours of work in a week so
you may plan on how many courses you
could sustain concurrently accordingly
courses are often offered for fractional
credits so not all of them will be the
traditional one credits some could be
point eight point six all the way up to
two two credits this is because we have
redesigned our campus curriculum in two
focused manageable topics that allow you
the flexibility to pursue only the
education that you need if you
already enrolled in one or more courses
affiliated with a pathway program you
have to pay tuition and enroll for
credit versions and complete any
remaining coursework for credit a
specialization on the Coursera platform
is a collection of courses so typically
several roughly month-long courses are
grouped into a specialization and the
specialization is roughly equivalent to
an on-campus three credit hour course
although the actual number of credit
hours can vary we also have graduate
certificates which generally are a
collection of specializations or perhaps
specializations and additional courses
that are in a unified area so we have
these courses that are typically a month
long there are a fraction of what we
would normally give offer on campus in a
semester so and they're typically
roughly one credit hour possibly more or
less in the for credit versions of these
courses generally we'll have an exam at
the end so that you can think of this as
being maybe a third of a semester long
course with a midterm exam but you'll
get a grade for this course each course
that will appear on your transcript
several courses maybe three to three or
four courses or five courses are grouped
into a specialization then which is
roughly again like a semester long
on-campus course multiple
specializations can be grouped into a
graduate certificate that is at least
nine credit hours or perhaps more and
then the overall degree is a total of 30
credit hours and as a reminder those 30
credit hours could be your choice this
is a flexible degree that you take for
the courses that work best for your
professional career and your personal
interests and goals of
learning the material as mentioned
previously three limited enrollment
pathways specializations for credit
we'll be launching in October and to get
started on that process please declare
your intent by clicking the start now on
our Coursera and MS-EE description
page in January and beyond many more
courses in the elective curriculum will
roll out but only some of them will be
additional pathway specializations
needed to enter the degree so the this
October we will offer three pathway
specializations so there's a power
electronics it's a new version of power
the power electronics course will be
offered optical engineering and the
third one is embedding sensors and
motors these these will have a limited
enrollment but but will be all any one
of these three can be a pathway
specialization that if you complete with
a grade of at least a B you you can use
it to be admitted into the MS degree
program we will have two more pathways
specializations that will launch later
this fall FPGA design for embedded systems
and then semiconductor devices these
also are pathway specializations then
starting in January we will the full
degree program will be opened up and
enrollments will not be limited on the
specializations and we will roll out
courses over the over 20 20 year 2020 so
in the power electronics area we will
have a second course in power
electronics on modeling and control of
power electronics there will be a
capstone project course that will be
part of the power electronics
certificate we intend to have a
course on simulations and applications
and power electronics and we will launch
a course on analog integrated circuit
design in addition to the optics course
launched in October we will have three
additional photonics and optics courses
active optical devices Fourier optics
and photovoltaics in embedded systems in
addition to the October course we have
these five additional specializations in
the works embedded interface design the
industrial Internet of Things soft
processor designs domain-specific
architecture processors and real-time
embedded systems and we have six
additional specializations in the works
in other areas so digital communications
channel estimation and equalization
basic control systems course antennas
stochastic environmental signal
processing and computer aided
verification now we’ve been asked about transfer
credits currently the MSEE cannot
accept transfer credit from another
program you may be able to transfer
credits earned for the MSDE courses you
taste to another university or program
at the discretion of that receiving
institution okay as scholarships and
financial aid so because of the
accreditation process for this new
experimental online degree we're not
able to offer financial aid or
scholarships at this time we know cost
is a consideration for everybody and so
really we've been able to greatly reduce
the tuition to about half of the
on-campus rate and this is a
pay-as-you-go program so you can spread
the costs out really you pay by the
month long
course which may be a fraction of a
credit hour and therefore would cost a
fraction of the six hundred sixty seven
dollars per credit hour our on-campus
students complete the degree in
generally in two years how fast you you
completed as distance student depends on
the pace at which you're able to take
the courses you can complete it in two
years or even less but typically it will
take longer than that the courses expire
in the eighth year so you need to
complete the degree or you want you
would want to complete the degree in
seven years and now you can declare your
atention role today by completing the
one-minute form visiting the URL of the
chat box okay so let's start the
questions and answers so what happens if
your GPA falls below three point zero
let's say you are a two point seven or
27 out of 30 credits through the degree
gotten straight B's and you get a C on
the course dropping your GPA below that
required are you then kicked out no
you're not kicked out but you will need
to raise your GPA to graduate so you
need to take additional courses right
there's also most of an option to retake
one course one time and try to improve
the great great
I listened when you talked about the HLC
accreditation I'm in Canada and I wonder
if this master can be accredited by the
engineering order in Canada like the EE
Bachelor of
university of colorado is based on the
washington agreement the Washington
Accord generally my understanding of
that is that it is an exchange accord
between countries that recognizes
engineering accreditation so in the
United States we it's called abet
accreditation and our undergraduate
programs are abet accredited and then
students in the United States who take
our master's degree get credit towards
the professional license or professional
engineering so under this Accord
generally I would expect it to apply
Coursera charges $79 per month after the
seven day free trial do you keep paying
the $79 per month even after being
admitted to the MS program on top of the
six hundred and sixty seven dollars per
credit so if you sign up for the
non-credit version you will pay the
seventy nine dollars if you sign up for
the for credit version then you'll pay
the tuition and not the seventy nine
dollars is there a difference between
the for credit pathway specializations
and the online certificates available on
Coursera the main difference is that the
one offered via Coursera that's the
non-credit option that does not count
towards credit as we said nor do you
receive a transcript with those marked
through our university those are through
Coursera if you do upgrade to the for
credit experience then yes those will
appear on the transcript and they will
count towards a certificate professional
certificate on our campus and the for
credit versions have additional work at
a minimum they have an exam
that is figured into the grade that
appears on the transcripts their
graded homeworks and other works as well
and there may be additional material we
try to have practice exams and other
materials to prepare for the exam that's
available only in the for credit version
how far into a class can you switch from
non-credit to for credit all the way
through at any time during the
non-credit version do all
specializations have programming
components if so what languages are
featured so no they don't all have
programming components so this depends
completely on the topic of the course so
some of the embedded systems courses
have programming typically there C but
they can be other they may may be other
programming languages many of our
courses for example of power electronics
courses do not have program is the
program geared for professionals who
already have a full-time job how many
hours a week is a student expected on
average to commit so as yes it is and on
average probably about four to six any I
know how much you could take on at one
time or to six hours a week yes yes we
do advise you to you know see how it
goes in your first class both again
taking a non-credit version first until
you know that you feel comfortable and
can master large parts to the material
before you upgrade to the for credit and
similarly take take one class initially
and see how that goes for you don't
overload yourself too much especially if
you're working full-time
what is roughly the percentage breakdown
between theory and application for each
Wow there's a lot of courses here and
there are they're pretty different
generally these courses are intended as
professional type graduate courses
rather than at courses that prepare
people to do research towards a PhD so
they are they are at least application
oriented but generally I would expect
some combination of both theory and
practice in most of our courses
okay how many students is each TA
assigned to I'm just trying to
understand the level of support we will
receive from the TA
so there we call them course
facilitators but they're effectively TAS
so we are playing that by ear right now
actually to see how many we need what we
will require is that each of these
course facilitators hold office hours by
zoom on a regular weekly schedule I
expect we will have at least in our
initial offerings this fall that our
limited enrollment that will have two
per course and and we'll see how it goes
well the lab supplies be offered through
the university or will we continue to
need to obtain them from third-party
sources and generally our campus for the
kits they sell them through the campus
or there have no I think there so that
these are purchased some of any embedded
systems courses that have these kits and
they are you can order them online from
a third party I'm not an American and I
don't need a visa to visit the US if I
show up on campus would I be considered
a regular student for example would I be
able to join this Key Club I know this
is a distinct and separate program in
that regard and especially to come here
you you would need to be granted it's
possible you're one of many students
already who has a visa and academic base
approach through another institution in
the United
States but this is separate our students
pay additional fees for those types of
activities and access we're trying to
keep this a very very affordable degree
for you and and so this is completely
online that way and not add fees yes I
have taken four power electronics courses
through Coursera already can these
courses be applied to the MS EE program
you would need to take the take the for
credit version of the courses and the
for credit version will be offered as
this version two of the power
electronics Coursera course it's very
similar to the version one that's up now
except it has four courses in it in the
specialization instead of six
it's courses one two three and five of
the current version but it will also
have exams and grades so you will if
you've taken before courses then that
should make it easy for you
I think but you will need to sign up for
the for credit version when it's
available and then take the exams and
other parts you might not have
had non-credit version right will I be
able to complete a thesis for the MSE ii
program once admitted no this is a non
thesis master's degree program these are
these are professional if you are
interested in a thesis then please do
apply to our on-campus program it would
be happy to assist you with that yes you
can find that on our general website for
applying to graduate school can you
transfer course credits will these be
accepted by other schools so other the
courses taken in this program will be
will appear on your transcript as
regular courses and and then what you
would do is take that and submit it to
the other school and ask for transfer
credit for
those courses are there any plans to
include remote remote sensing yes one of
the courses that was on the slides is a
remote sensing course and we have
additional courses in works as well
stochastic environmental signal
processing courses specifically a remote
sensing course and there will be a
follow-up second course appearing later
in 2020 is there a method to ask
specific questions related to my
background and situation you contact the
email address of ECE - MOOC MOOC at
Colorado edu you can get your questions
answered that way yes
I'm not sure about this question are
there any updates to current non-degree
curriculum I'm having trouble with the
current lab equipment requirements lab
equipment we don't have we have left
kits we don't have large equipment you
know associate with that particular
program do you anticipate that most
students will have an undergraduate
engineering degree yes that's the
assumption yes
while we don't formally require that as
part of the performance-based admissions
we do assume and teach these we do
assume that those be entering students
have the equivalent of an undergraduate
electrical engineering degree or at
least have the prerequisite knowledge
that someone who had such a degree would
have and these these are graduate
courses taught at the same level as our
on-campus graduate program is it
possible to do one or two courses on
campus no this this is exclusively this
material is offered exclusively through
the Coursera platform there's no mixing
or matching in fact you should not be
simultaneous I enrolled in both you
should really be in one or the other are
there any other fees beyond the per
credit per credit hour and lab equipment
such as matriculation will there be a
graduate fee when completed there are no
other fees would I be able to use the GI
Bill for this program currently not we
are looking into that but it is not a
it's not a it's not available at this
time should I wait to take power
electronics version two
it available now is non credit for it
power electronics version 1 is available
non-credit now version 2 will be
available by the end of August as a
non-credit course and then the for
credit version of power electronics 2
will be offered for credit starting in
October so that's your choice I guess
version 2 again is similar to version 1
as an online alumni will we get a valid
student ID that would give us access to
student discount learning tools such as
MATLAB mmm they'd love to look into that
because there's there's again this
something's our feed for our own campus
students and we will look into whether
we can do that for this program we're
attempting to give everybody and I a
campus identikey tanika which is a
campus ID and password that could then
be used for such things as student
MATLAB this is one of the things we're
still working on and is pretty
complicated but so I hope I hope the
answer is yes where will we keep track
of our GPA slash transcript
in Coursera itself or in MyCU info it
will be in my Cu info but that the CU
website will will track your credit for
credit earnings and grades and with this
my Cu info which is our Campus student
student portal you can you can see your
transcript if I have an interest in
taking more than 30 credit hours of
courses how would this be reflected in
the transcript
they will continue to be recorded
you can keep taking courses after you
are in the master's degree if you want
to if my company will pay for the degree
who do they contact to take care of that
how does that work I think it depends on
the company in many instances workers
will pay upfront and their employers
will reimburse them particularly due to
the short timeframe of these particular
courses the way they're divided up
however if other companies are able to
pay upfront and they may be able to work
that out with our bursar's office its
general and you'll pay online or the
credit card if I get a C in a course and
then retake the class and get an A is
the grade averaged or replaced with the
new grade deliver our intention
ultimately is the latter
do you have it replace it is taking time
to work with programmers to effect a
change and and we have a lot of people
working on this - great canvas rules are
changing right now but I think the way
it's going to work is the last earned
grade is the one that counts whether the
higher or lower right I'm a mechanical
engineer who has taken circuits courses
in the past how can I best prepare
myself for the power electronics
specialization that sounds pretty good I
would suggest that you just try the
non-credit first course and see how it
goes I'd encourage you to give it a try
and see if it fits you know how you can
handle it it's going very well then
upgrade to the far right and just
continue apace then just go ahead and go
right ahead yeah I am a US citizen and
resident can I use federal student loans
to pay the tuition if I take a certain
amount of credits in a given period but
we've currently still there's not that
type currently no we cannot administer
federal student loans for this program
and this is again because of the
experimental nature of the degree and
the accreditation limitations
how will the timeline of coursework be
structured that is deadlines for
assignments during the course and
limited window of time for taking a
course it is it a hundred percent
automated lecture with on-demand grading
or are there some limitations most
courses are 100 percent on-demand a
typical course is four weeks long so it
will have four modules that are roughly
one week modules that you will have
eight weeks to complete the course so if
something happens or you go on a trip
you there is some additional time
allocated before you have to complete
the course so generally we will have
eight week sessions in which you need to
complete the the course and generally
the courses are shorter than eight weeks
long can this MS-EE degree count toward
taking an engineering PhD with the
University of Colorado Boulder again
this is a it's a just designed as a
professional masters and intended for
you to continue along or enter industry
after that that said under the campus
rules if you follow the rules for credit
transfers you can apply to transfer
those towards a subsequent PhD in general this
is a master's is intended to
lead you to industry or if you want to
continue for a PhD you would have to
apply to our ph.d program
be admitted and then you would transfer
the credits into that program under the
campus rules
right I have a master in mechanical
aerospace engineering how much knowledge
is required in electrical engineering to
be able to excel in this program so
again generally you need to understand
undergraduate Electrical Engineering
material we generally assume that you
have had freshmen and sophomore calculus
courses that you've taken circuits and
electronics in the computer area we we
generally assume that students have
digital logic and basic like
microprocessor knowledge but the exact
prerequisite knowledge for each course
will be different so if you have this
technical engineering background that's
pretty good you may very well satisfy
all of those things and I again I think
the best way to to see is just to try
the non-credit version first and see how
it goes and we're urging it towards that
because it cause you know it's crazy
it's very very affordable and once you
are really certain then you feel good
about that then pay the tuition to
upgrade to the for credit version of the
course right I have taken to power like
it says I have taken the power
electronics specialization and used your
recommended design free software ltspice
I was wondering if I sign as a student
in the university will I have access to
more industry software like Cadence's
virtuoso in
addition what kind of lab equipment can
I use as a student would you elaborate
on the lab equipment so this distance
course does not have power electronics
labs because the lab equipment is pretty
involved and expensive and we don't
assume that everybody around the world
has access to that so there is no lab
equipment required for power electronics
in this degree on campus we do offer
some power electronics laboratories and
those laboratories have quite a bit of
equipment such as power supplies and
oscilloscopes and current probes and
other things
cadance we currently don't intend to
offer that in any of the courses in this
program a problem with cadence is that
there are export controls on the
software and this this program is
intended to to be available worldwide so
we aren't allowed we do have it have
MATLAB in some of the more advanced
courses and students enrolled in those
courses will have access to MATLAB
if a student needs extra help our
professors or student helpers available
to tutor or give resources what is the
equivalent to the offer office hours
availability these of course
facilitators who will hold least weekly
sessions online vision will serve that
purpose yes so in it there there are the
discussion forums between the students
and then the course facilitators will
hold regular online office hours do you
recommend do you have a recommended
curriculum in power electronics for
example or listing of courses or
prerequisites
online do we have that online yet we're
working on it okay so that it's not it's
not up yet but it will be soon so these
slides had a list of of the early
courses to be posted and there there
will be a full certificate in power
electronics that will be available in
early 2020
if I finish the degree online
will I be invited to the University for
the graduation ceremony their discipline
option yes yes you may you may come to
the graduation ceremony in May
are there any live sessions so the the
office hours are live generally the
lectures are recorded we will have
additional live events that are
department-wide events so for example
the department seminars will be
broadcast how imperative is it that I
have a background in electrical
engineering
I have no undergraduate experience
are there prerequisite courses that you
can recommend that I take to get started
to get me up to speed
yes so I would suggest that you take the
undergraduate circuits and electronics
courses and there are several good ones
available today on Coursera in this area
so you know take the non-credit versions
of those and I think that should help
you come up to speed save for the math
another complementary type course you
haven't had calculus you want to take
that first can you become a TA after
completing a course um we'll talk about
that depends on where you live and you
know what rules there are for us to be
able to hire you but we will be looking
for course facilitators generally they
are our graduate students who have
completed the courses from okay so it's
from but they're on campus generally but
I think we're not prohibited from hiring
off-campus
within within certain certain parameters
you have to look into especially how
that works out between various countries
in your geographical we can huh yeah
yeah we can't hire people on the other
side of the world we I think they'll
have to be in the US
what are some changes from version one
to version 2 of the power
electronics pathway so in version one
course for is removed and will be part
of the new second course second
specialization in power electronics
course five
I am rerecording and course six is
the design project that is also taken
out of version two and it will be
available as a separate course within
the our electronic certificate so the
material will be basically the same for
courses one two three and five what was
the motivation to launch a program like
this we saw a need and an opportunity so
you know we've I've been teaching
distance courses for decades more than
three decades and I've always enjoyed it
but I I see some of the limitations
first of all the semester long courses
can be a long difficult call for people
who have jobs and lives so dividing the
courses into smaller chunks which really
we learned from Coursera is something
that makes it more manageable for for
distance professionals also we we have
disconnected this from the regular
campus semester system so for example in
power electronics we offer our on-campus
our first semester every fall and then
the second and third semesters are
offered in alternate Springs so if you
want to take the second or third course
you might have to wait a year and a half
before we even offer it so the most
distance people want it now and I don't
blame them so
so this format allows us to really offer
the courses here year-round and really
meet the demand that we've seen through
the years well all the course
facilitators be on-campus students or
will this be an option for online as
well initially initially they are be on
campus and it's possible in the future
we we could extend this to selected off
campus students upon successful
completion of the MS-EE requirements how
are we going to receive the diploma
would it be a physical or electronic
diploma the campus now has an electronic
diploma it's it's parchment yes
so so now our diplomas are issued via
parchment this is the name of the
software that issues them right
not to be confused as a physical
parchment how many students do you plan
on accepting into the program and will
there be a lot of collaboration between
students so beginning in January there
will be no limit so we allow as many
people in as as our willing and able our
runs our first offerings in October will
be limited well actually just make just
out make sure all the software's
functioning campus-wide they did built a
lot of you stuff for functionality for
this and you know pioneering new
degree we had to do something so that
differently than our traditional degrees
that are on campus so so it will be a
trial run in October and then the we
will open the gates
will there be peer graded coursework
this depends on the course yes their
name sometimes there is for example in
power electronics the project course is
peer graded the remainder of the
material is not peer graded and we
perceive feedback from students who
actually very much appreciate that type
of interaction that type of grading
they're very very enthusiastic about it
to get that type of peer feedback and to
provide their feedback as well to their
peers I think we've learned how to do
peer grading so it has very well-defined
and elaborate rules for for the peer
grading that make it very worthwhile
yeah worthwhile but also make it
consistent in the grading and as far I
didn't answer the collaboration question
so students generally can collaborate
and the the discussion forums are the
primary way to do that granted you will
do your own exams and all that we have
you know the same expectations of
academic honesty to do your own work
when it comes down to the exams and
homeworks but certainly you can
collaborate and ask each other questions
other parts of the course right I am a
controls engineer in a manufacturing
plant
would you suggest power electronics or
embedded systems they're both there they
could both be applicable to such a job
and you would have the opportunity to
take courses from both areas yeah unless
you're doing the certificates themselves
have fairly you know but fairly
localized but the but the the degrees is
offered and the degree is wide open
exactly if I take the non-credit course
and then want to upgrade it
do I pay tuition and basically retake
the course again you pay tuition the the
work on basically the homework
assignments for the non-credit version
will get transferred automatically to
the for credit version but then there
will be an additional work such as an
exam yet that you'll have to complete as
well and potentially additional
homeworks as well depending on the other
specific course right how do you
anticipate this program to perform in
rankings that compare online graduate
engineering programs for example US News
qsr etc against more established
programs well this is the first program
of its kind so there is no one to
compare us to today so we'll add I guess
I don't know how US News and World
Report is going to approach this so we
are out of time we have many many
questions that we were unable to get to
you could send your questions or we will
actually compile all these questions we
didn't get to and we will send out
responses or you can send your questions
direct email your questions to us at
MS-EE MOOC at Colorado edu and you will
send you answers as soon as we can okay
thank you thank you for your interest
and we hope that you find find this a
rewarding program and hope to see you in
the fall looking forward to seeing you soon
