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University of Florida Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering

Degree Requirements

At least 30 credit hours beyond bachelor’s degree are required. These hours include MSADS master’s degree work taken at the University of Florida or, if approved, up to 9 hours of master’s degree work earned at another approved university outside UF. Course substitutions must be petitioned and are considered on a case-by-case basis.

Requirements include completion of the following:

  • MSADS core courses: 21 credits
  • MSADS specialization courses: 6 credits
  • MSADS Capstone Project: 3 credits

Curriculum

A standard 4-semester curriculum will look like the following:

  • EGN 6445 Mathematical Foundations for Data Science for Engineers (3 credits)
  • EGN 5442 Programming for Applied Data Science (3 credits)
  • EGN 6933 AI Ethics for Tech Leaders (3 credits)
  • CAP 5771 Introduction to Data Science (3 credits)
  • EGN 6556 Mathematical Foundations for Data Science for Engineers II (3 credits)
  • EEE 5776 Applied Machine Learning (3 credits)
  • EEE 6778 Applied Machine Learning II (3 credits)

Choose two (2) courses in one of the following specializations:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

  • EGN 5XXX AI for Automated Sensor Data Interpretation (3 credits)
  • ABE 5038 Fundamentals and Applications of Biosensors (3 credits)
  • ABE 6840 Data Diagnostics
  • ABE 5643C Biological Systems Modeling (3 credits)
  • ABE 6649C Advanced Biological Systems Modeling (3 credits)


Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • EVN 6932 Algorithms for Imaging Spectroscopy (3 credits)
  • ESI 6617 High-Dimensional Data Analytics (3 credits)
  • EEE 6512 Image Processing and Computer Vision (3 credits)


Biomedical

  • BME 6522 Biomedical Multivariate Signal Processing (3 credits)
  • BME 6938 Multimodal Data Mining (3 credits)
  • BME 6938 Biomedical Data Science (3 credits)


Chemical Engineering

  • ECH 6845 Chemical Process Data Science (3 credits)
  • ECH 6937 Fundamentals of Artificial Neural Networks (3 credits)


Data Analytics in Industrial Systems Engineering (ISE)

  • EIN 6905 Data Analytics for Systems Monitoring (3 credits)
  • ESI 6617 High-Dimensional Data Analytics (3 credits)


Environmental

  • OCP 6168 Data Analysis Techniques for Coastal Ocean (3 credits)
  • ABE 6035 Advanced Remote Sensing: Science and Sensors (3 credits)
  • EVN 6932 Algorithms for Imaging Spectroscopy (3 credits)
  • EEE 6512 Image Processing and Computer Vision (3 credits)


Transportation

  • EGN 5215 Machine Learning Applications in Civil Engineering (3 credits)
  • TTE 6505 Discrete Choice Analysis (3 credits)
  • EGN 6933 Project in Applied Data Science (Non-Thesis Project) (3 credits)