MEng Degree Requirements

The MEng Degree requires at least 25 total units of credit and comprehensive exam. Those credits are allocated across three essential areas:

• 12 units of ME department 200 level course work in your area of concentration
• 8 units of Fung Institute Business & Leadership classes
  • 2 units of boot camp short courses in mid August
    • ENGIN 270A Organizational Behavior & Negotiations
    • ENGIN 270B R&D Tech Management and Ethics
  • 2 units of boot camp short courses in early January
  • Choose 2 x 1-unit electives (Note: Electives listed below are subject to change)
    • ENGIN 270D: Entrepreneurship & Entrep Finance
    • ENGIN 270G: Marketing & Product Management
    • ENGIN 270H: Accounting & Finance
    • ENGIN 270I: Digital Platform Strategy
    • ENGIN 270J: Industry Analysis
    • ENGIN 270L: Global Leadership Expertise
    • ENGIN 270M: Professional Ethics in Tech, Law & Business
• 2 units of Communications – ENG 295 (total, fall and spring)
• 1 unit of ENGIN 270C Teaming & Project Management (fall)
• 1 unit of ENGIN 270K Coaching for High Performing Teams (spring)
• 5 units of ENGIN296MA and 296MB Capstone Project (total, fall and spring)
  • Includes a final team report
  • Students receive a final capstone grade at the end of Spring semester. Several weeks after receiving the final grade for E296, the spring and the fall records are reconciled and “IP” is removed. More information about In Progress (IP) grades is listed in the A203 Berkeley Academic Senate webpage.
• Plan II Masters Comprehensive Exam: pass both leadership (fall) and technical (spring) parts

 

Master of Engineering: Plan II Master’s Comprehensive Exam

Passing the comprehensive exam is a mandatory requirement to graduate with the Master of Engineering degree. The exam is not part of a grade for any course, and is administered in two parts: leadership and technical.  The leadership exam is a written exam administered by the Fung Institute towards the end of the fall or beginning of the spring semesters. The technical exam is administered by the degree-granting department and may be oral or written, based on the format the engineering department technical faculty deem most effective. The technical exam may be administered at the end of the fall semester or in the spring semester, as determined by the department. 

A student will generally be given two opportunities to pass each part of the comprehensive exam. A student who fails one or both components of the exam may, with the concurrence of the examining committee and Graduate Advisors, re-take the component(s) of the exam that he or she failed. Students who fail one component of the exam and then fail the re-take of that component of the exam will either be recommended to the Dean of Graduate Division for dismissal from the program (in consultation with Graduate Advisors) or opt to voluntarily leave the program. In rare circumstances, the examining committee (again, in consultation with Graduate Advisors) may recommend to the Dean of the Graduate Division that a student be dismissed without the opportunity to re-take the failed portion(s) of the comprehensive examination.

A student who has been dismissed from graduate standing will no longer be permitted to register. Once dismissed, a student is granted access to campus resources, including faculty time, only to the degree that such access is accorded the general public.

Your individual engineering departments will communicate their technical exam format and timing to students directly.  The exam timing and format will vary by department. Some departments hold their exams in the fall; others — in the spring. In some cases, it’s based on capstone projects; in others — on coursework. Please inquire with your GSAO for details about your department’s technical exam.