Transforming Engineers into Leaders
Why University of California, Riverside Online?
At the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering, we don’t waste time. Our unique structure allows you to go from bachelor’s to master’s in as few as 13 months while you maintain employment.
UC Riverside’s Master of Engineering program proudly offers nine specializations for engineering professionals who want to add a business background and technical edge to help advance their career. Students can qualify for all nine available specializations with a bachelor’s degree in engineering, regardless of undergraduate emphasis.
Graduate in as few as 13 months
Add a business background and technical edge to help advance your career
Qualify for all specializations with a bachelor’s degree in engineering
Student Support
The student support specialists at the University of California, Riverside are dedicated to helping students successfully navigate their educational journey. They provide you with institutional information, guidelines, and policies and procedures regarding your enrollment. Once you are accepted, your student support specialist can assist you with academic course requirements, course registration and timelines to help you complete your course of study quickly.
Student support specialists are available to every online engineering student from enrollment through graduation.
The Education Journey
Engineering students may be able to complete their program in as few as four quarters; each quarter is 11 weeks. However, all online engineering programs at the University of California, Riverside operate on a carousel model. Once you begin your coursework, if you need to take a break, you’ll have to wait until the carousel cycles back around to where you left off. Student support specialists are always available to help you stay on track, or if it becomes necessary to take a break, get you back into the program as soon as possible.
You will take a minimum of one Core Engineering Course and one Specialization Course per quarter. Typically, students will be registered in nine credits per quarter under this model. Your quarter schedule will be provided to you by your student support specialist during each registration period.
Master of Science in Engineering Core Courses
This course addresses the adaptive challenges facing engineers in a global environment. Its elements cover relevant business dynamics, national and international requirements, as well as less formal elements beyond the realm of core technical competence. An expanded understanding of how companies make outsourcing decisions is relevant whether one is participating or is impacted in other ways.
Virtual technologies enable professionals to communicate more effectively in a multinational environment assisted by workflow software, videoconferencing and other virtual technologies. These tools enable project design to be executed in real-time across continents at all hours. They can also facilitate active collaboration with contractors and clients through implementation phases.
Compliance with applicable regulatory requirements can minimize costly delays. Enhanced awareness of these added elements is essential whether a project is operating domestically or internationally. Global engineers must also apply what may be referred to as “soft skills.” Each nation has unique business protocols. Arriving late to a meeting in one country may instantly damage a professional relationship, while bypassing informal conversation in some cultures could be considered comparably offensive. There may also be essential protocols when interacting with personnel on-site in an unfamiliar national context. The topics below are designed to widen the engineering practice framework to incorporate necessary added skills to succeed in an increasingly global environment.
This course provides an in-depth coverage of these fundamentals, including sources of innovation, innovation project management, innovation protection management, organizational structuring and collaboration, and human resource management of technical professions. Business models, leading academic research and current organizational concerns are brought together in a blended learning environment that explores real companies and their strategies for harnessing the technology innovation value proposition.
Subjects such as requirements analysis, concept definition, system synthesis, design analysis, design tradeoffs, risk tradeoffs, interface definition, engineering design, systems integration and others are described as they relate to the overall life cycles of complex systems. The course will consist of lectures, reading, problem solving, a midterm and final exam.
MSE Online Specialization Courses
BIEN 223
Engineering Analysis of Physiological Systems
4 credits
BIEN 224
Cellular and Molecular Engineering
4 credits
BIEN 249
Integration of Computational and Experimental Biology
4 credits
BIEN 264
Biotransport Phenomena
4 credits
BIEN 270
Transport with Reactions in Biological Systems
4 credits
CS 229
Machine Learning
4 credits
CS 235
Data Mining Techniques
4 credits
CS 236
Database Management Systems
4 credits
CS 242
Information Retrieval and Web Search
4 credits
CS 240
Pattern Recognition
4 credits
EE 241
Advanced Digital Image Processing
4 credits
EE 243
Advanced Computer Vision
4 credits
PHYS 222
Data Visualization and Big Data Tools
4 credits
STAT 206
Statistical Computing
4 credits
**EE 123
Power Electronics
4 credits
**EE 153
Electric Drives
4 credits
EE155
Power Systems Analysis
4 credits
EE 218
Power Systems Steady State and Market Analysis
4 credits
EE 232
Introduction to Smart Grids
4 credits
*ENGR 160
Intro to Engineering Optimization Techniques
4 credits
*This course is taken in place of ENGR 200, ENGR 201, ENGR 202 or ENGR 203.
**Students will choose between EE 123 or EE 153.
CEE 241
Water Chemistry in Natural and Engineered Systems
4 credits
CEE 243
Advanced Treatment Systems
4 credits
CEE 226
Biological Treatment Processes
4 credits
CEE 225
Physical and Chemical Separation Processes
4 credits
MSE 201
Thermodynamic Foundations of Materials
4 credits
MSE 210
Crystal Structure & Bonding
4 credits
MSE 238
Introduction to Microelectromechanical Systems
4 credits
CMSE 248
NanoScale Science & Engineering
4 credits
ME 203
Design and Analysis of Engineering Experiments
4 credits
ME 210
Sustainable Product Design
4 credits
ME 223
Secure & Reliable Control Systems
4 credits
ME 240 A
Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics
4 credits
ME 274
Plasma-Aided Manufacturing & Materials Processing
4 credits
ENGR 204
Projects Portfolio Management
4 credits
ENGR 205
Quality Management
4 credits
ENGR 206
Engineering Economics
4 credits
ENGR 207
Engineering Leadership and Organizational Behavior
4 credits
CEE 200
Advanced Engineering Computation
4 credits
CEE 202
Transport Phenomena
4 credits
CEE 204
Advanced Kinetics and Reactor Design
4 credits
CEE 206
Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
4 credits
About the University of California, Riverside
Bourns College of Engineering
Accreditation
UCR Online Engineering School Rankings
The University of California, Riverside has been recognized by a number of academic publications for a variety of different programs and attributes. In 2013, Leiden Ranking named UC Riverside No. 10 in the world for natural sciences and engineering. In its most recent graduate school rankings, U.S. News & World Report counted UC Riverside among the top 33 percent of engineering schools in the nation. The publication also ranked UCR No. 12 in diversity, an honor that reflects our longstanding commitment to cultural, professional and geographical diversity.
Military Friendly
Victory Media selected UC Riverside as a “Military Friendly School” for 2015, acknowledging our longstanding commitment to providing educational opportunities for transitioning veterans. The list recognizes only the top 20 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools that are doing the most to assist U.S. military service members and veterans as students.
Cost of Attendance
Tuition
Per Credit Hour: $963
Total Tuition: $34,668
Fees
Application Fee: $135 non-refundable fee
Books/Supplies: Other additional fees include books and an online proctoring service. The online proctoring service charges $16 for the first hour and $7 per each additional hour.
Travel/Residency: None