IEEE

[tulum]

Not to beat a dead horse but...

I see IEEE has teamed up with Drexel to offer a MS in Power systems. Being from the great white north, I am not too familiar with Drexel. Is it a good school? Seeing the IEEE stamped leads me to beleive it must hold some merit.

http://www.drexel.com/partners/ieee/index.asp

Regards,
TULUM

 

[KWman]

I went to school at U of Delaware. Reputation for Drexel is very good in that region. I do not have specifics, just an impression of quality.

 

[AusLee]

First i see this is a 45 credits course. I think other universtities give it for 30 credits if you have an Electrical Engineering major, otherwise 36 credits.

For the IEEE, (and i know because i'm a member), i can tell you that really and honestly it does not help in Anything. IEEE in academy is something quite different than purple book and 802 series. Read Spectrum online to see they now have their heads on one of Jupiter's moons, or was it Saturn! Besides,

The Only thing i think you will get is a free access to their technical library, but you can buy that for $35/month, but you really don't need it: so many articles are available from the authors or universities' websites.

The curriculum is not interesting at all. You will need the probability course for the telecommunications, so that's 3 credits down the drain in terms of learned material. I'd go for something like Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Environment, Micromachines ... Operations Research (II) and Project Management are really important though.

The good thing is that your degree will not show that you got it online.

In the end, if you're looking and you do have a choice, choose another.

 

[DUMechEng]

I'm actually a drexel grad from the mechanical dept but i have several friends that were electrical. they seemed to be happy with the undergrad program, i cant really speak about the graduate/online programs as i'm not familiar with them. but as kwman mentioned the school does have a very good reputation among engineering schools in the region. And about the credits...Drexel is on a quarter system, so instead of two terms and a summer break/term, they have 4 terms throughout the year. Thats why it takes 45 credits. The classes are only 10 weeks long on that system. To cover the same amount of material another school does in a single course, sometimes drexel has to offer two seperate ones. So basically you are taking the same amount of material, simply broken up into more, shorter classes. Assuming you take 2 classes a term for all 4 terms in a year, you can knock out that degree in 2 years. Thats pretty standard for a graduate degree i think.

 

[Rich2001]

Like KWman, I too went to the University of Delaware. I have a few friends that went to Drexel. An engineer that I worked with several years ago went to Drexel to obtain his Masters in EE. He liked the program.

Drexel is a good school and has been a leader in distance learning. It not only is teamed up with the IEEE but with other Engineering organizations like ASME, NSPE and ASCE.