The fundamental courses listed in Table 1 are covered as part of the core program for Electrical, Mechanical and Systems Design students, however the Computer Engineering students are missing the thermodynamics course, E&CE 309. Computer Engineering students can take this or an equivalent thermodynamics course as a TBE or instead of a CSE in their 2BQ term. Two of the options core courses (Table 2), E&CE 241 and E&CE 324 are also part of the normal program for the Computer Engineering students. Then, ME 321 or SYDE 382 could be taken in 3AQ as another TBE or in place of a CSE, and ME 269 or E&CE 362 could be taken as an extra course or in place of a CSE in the 3BQ term, to complete the core requirement. Students can make up missed CSEs during a work term or as an extra course in an academic term. Note that there is some flexibility where these courses are taken and there may be scheduling constraints that affect the choice for any particular class.
In fourth year, the students need to take at least one course from each of the 5 groups listed in Table 3. Because of the limited availability of the courses in these groups, students will need to take E&CE 484 (group 3) and either E&CE 463 or ME 561 (group 1) in their 4AQ term. As part of the 3AQ core program, students have already taken E&CE 354 which is a group 2 course, so they are not required to take another course in group 2. The remaining courses are the 4AQ core, which includes E&CE 427 and the design project E&CE 492A and one additional TE, TBE or CSE. In their 4BQ term, the minimum requirement is for the students to take at least one of the available courses from group 4 (E&CE 486, ME 547, SYDE 422 or SYDE 558) and one from group 5 (ME 322, ME 524 or SYDE 454). The remaining three courses in 4BQ could be any combinations of TE, TBE or CSEs that will result in the student satisfying ALL the Computer Engineering Degree requirements.
Finally, it is expected that the Electrical students will do a Mechatronics Project as part of the new Engineering Design Project course sequence in the Electrical Engineering program.