Programme Aim

The MSc programme aims to provide an enhancement of specialist technical knowledge in strategically selected areas, such as RF & microwaves circuits & applied electromagnetics, wireless communications, networking & data communications, and optical communications that are relevant to the current and anticipated future needs from industry. Due to the rapid advances of existing technologies, the programme is designed for practicing engineers who want to upgrade and update their knowledge in this field.

The programme offers a good selection of business management electives, preparing engineers with knowledge on top of their technical fronts to take up managerial positions in their engineering career.

The programme also offers Industrial or Research Internship experience via the Applied Research Internship Scheme preparing students for full employment immediately after their research internships, or for further studies as PhD candidates in their related technology areas either locally or in overseas countries.

Programme Intended Learning Outcomes

With the global trend towards the adoption of the outcomes based approach to education, City University embarked on the Outcomes-based Teaching and Learning (OBTL) project in 2005 to signify its determination to continue to enhance the education experience for its students. All taught postgraduate programmes and courses of EE have adopted this outcomes based approach since 2009. Sets of intended learning outcomes on both course level and programme level have been developed. Course Intended Learning Outcomes (CILOs) of individual courses and their constructive alignment with programme outcomes can be found in respective course syllabuses while Programme Intended Learning Outcomes (PILOs) are listed below for students' reference:

1.	Describe current and anticipated trends in the selected areas including Wireless Communications; Networking and Information Engineering; Optical Communications; and RF & Microwave Circuits and Applied Electromagnetics.
2.	Evaluate and analyze new technologies in the selected areas.
3.	Apply specialist knowledge in the selected areas.
4.	Assess, evaluate and formulate solutions to problems or specifications, in the selected areas.
5.	Carry out research and develop new technologies and products in the selected areas.
6.	Apply effective communication skills in their professions.
7.	Manage teams of technologists with good senses of business and marketing (BM option only).
8.	Manage a research project and develop strong ability to do academic/ industrial research (IR option only).

Programme Requirement

MSEIE: Students must complete a total of 30 CUs for the award. A minimum of 24 CUs must be Technical elective courses¹ where at least 6 CUs must be information engineering related courses (denoted by an asterisk * on the list below). In addition, at least 12 CUs should be Level 6 courses.

Industrial Research (IR) Option²: Students must complete a total of 45 CUs of which 15 CUs should earn by taking EE6691 Applied Research Internship Scheme in Electronic Engineering. For the rest of 30 CUs, a minimum 24 CUs of Technical elective courses¹ where at least 6 CUs must be information engineering related courses (denoted by an asterisk * on the list below) and at least 12 CUs should be Level 6 courses, excluding EE6691.

Business Management (BM) Option³: Students must complete a total of 45 CUs of which at least 15 CUs, but not more than 18 CUs must be Business Management (BM) elective courses (denoted by sign # on the list below). A minimum of 24 CUs must be Technical elective courses¹ where at least 6 CUs must be information engineering related courses (denoted by an asterisk * on the list below). In addition, at least 12 CUs should be Level 6 courses. Click here to download the application form and the guidance.

Students who cannot complete the MSc degree may be eligible to apply for the PGD or PGC as an intermediate award, subject to meeting the requirements for the PGD or PGC award.

PGD: Students who have earned 24 CUs (at least 15 CUs of EE taught courses; no less than 6 CUs of information engineering related courses; and no more than 9 CUs of level 5 technical elective courses) but do not intend to complete the full programme may apply in writing for conferment of the PGD award.

PGCs: Students are required to complete a total of 12 CUs of EE elective courses selected from the relevant topics listed below, where no more than 6 CUs can be earned from Level-5 courses. Students may apply to transfer to the MSEIE programme, with credit transfer, after satisfactory completion of at least 6 CUs required in the PGC programme.

Notes:
1.Technical elective courses consist of all EE and CS elective courses.
2.The award title shown will be “Master of Science in Electronic Information Engineering with Industrial Research.”
3.The award title will be “Master of Science in Electronic Information Engineering with Business Management.”

Elective courses:
3 credit units each, except for EE6680 Dissertation (9 CUs) and EE6691 Applied Research Internship Scheme in Electronic Engineering (15 CUs). Elective courses offered are under continuous review. The electives available in any particular year are therefore subject to change. Besides, a minimum enrolment of at least 18 students is required for an elective course to be offered.

Tentative Timetable for 2018/19

Curriculum Structure for MSEIE, IR Option and BM Option

The following table show the curriculum structure of the programme and its exit options. Please refer to the above session for the Programme Requirements for the programme or exit options.

Course Code	Course Title	IR Option	MSEIE/ BM option/ PGD	PGC- NIE	PGC- WC	PGC- RFC&AE	PGC- OC
CS5351*	Software Engineering
CS5348*	Software Quality Engineering
EE5410	Signal Processing
EE5412*	Telecommunication Networks
EE5413*	Advanced Internet Technologies (not offered in 2018/19)
EE5414*	Development and Design in Embedded System (not offered in 2018/19)
EE5415*	Mobile Applications Design and Development
EE5425	Fundamentals of Radio Frequency (RF) Circuit Engineering
EE5432	Applications of Lasers in Optoelectronics (not offered in 2018/19)
EE5433*#^	Innovation in Multimedia Technology and marketplaces for Mobile Applications (not offered in 2018/19)
EE5604	Applied Electromagnetics in Electronic Design
EE5805*	Java Network Programming
EE5806*	Topics in Image Processing
EE5808*	Topics in Computer Graphics
EE5809*	Digital Audio Processing and Applications
EE5815*	Topics in Security Technology
EE6412*	Signaling, Switching and Routing in Telecommunication Networks (not offered in 2018/19)
EE6413*	Advanced Topics in Networking Technologies (not offered in 2018/19)
EE6426	Radio Frequency (RF) Circuit Engineering
EE6428	Optical Communications
EE6430	Discrete-Time Control Systems (not offered in 2018/19)
EE6432*	Topics in Digital Video Broadcasting (not offered in 2018/19)
EE6435*	Multi-Dimensional Data Modeling and its Applications
EE6449	Electromagnetic Compatibility - EMC Theory, Design & Measurement
EE6453*	Mobile Communication and Networks
EE6601	Topics in Radio Frequency Circuit Design and Applications (not offered in 2018/19)
EE6603*	Wireless Communication Technologies
EE6605*	Complex Networks : Modeling, Dynamics and Control (not offered in 2018/19)
EE6609	Nonlinear Optical Devices (not offered in 2018/19)
EE6610*	Queueing Theory with Telecommunications Applications
EE6611	Directed Studies for Taught Postgraduate Students
EE6612# ^	Studies on Electronics Industry in China and Asia Pacific (not offered in 2018/19)
EE6613	Green Electronics-Theory, Eco-design, Experiments and Applications
EE6614	Reliability Engineering in Electronics Industry
EE6615	Nanotechnology for Devices and Microsystems
EE6617*	Detection and Estimation - Theory and Applications in Communications (not offered in 2018/19)
EE6618*	Three Dimensional (3D) Video Display Technology
EE6619*	Antenna Design for Wireless Communications
EE6620	Linear Systems Theory and Design (new course code subject to approval)
EE6680 μ	Dissertation (9 CUs)
EE6690	Internship Scheme in Electronic Industry
EE6691@	Applied Research Internship Scheme in Electronic Industry
EE6802	Advances in Digital Signal Processing (not offered in 2018/19)
EE6805*	Video and Speech Compression (not offered in 2018/19)
EF5010#	Economics for Business (not offered in 2018/19)
EF5042#	Corporate Finance
FB5632#	e-Marketing and Customer Relationship Management (not offered in 2018/19)
FB6622#	Services Marketing (not offered in 2018/19)
MGT5204#©	Organizational Behaviour
MGT5205#©	Strategic Management
MGT5313#©	International Organizational Behavior
MGT5316#©	Human Resources Management
MGT6209#©	High Performance Collaborations
MGT6314#©	Global Human Resources Management
MGT6318#©	Employee Engagement and Performance
MGT6323#©	Cross-Cultural Negotiation
MGT6325#©	International Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship
MGT6326#©	Managing International Business
SEEM6009#	Project Management
SEEM6012#	Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship
SEEM6015	Supply Chain Management
SEEM6037#	Managing Strategic Quality
SEEM6044#	China Engineering Enterprise Management (not offered in 2018/19)

*	Information Engineering (IE) related course - Students are required to earn at least 6 CUs of IE related courses.
#	Business Management (BM) elective course – Students choose Business Management (BM) option are required to earn at least 15 CUs, but not more than 18 CUs from BM elective courses.
©	Two-year full-time working experience (internship experience or similar are not counted) is required for taking this Management (MGT) course.
^	CUs earned from this course could be counted as either fulfilling credit unit requirement of EE technical elective or that of business management elective.
μ	Upon successful completion of the programme requirement, students who have taken EE6680 Dissertation (9 credit units) will be considered eligible to apply PhD programme of CityU, provided that the English proficiency requirements are met.
@	EE6691 Applied Research Internship Scheme in Electronic Engineering (15 credit units) is for full-time students who opt for Industrial Research (IR) exit award only.
	*Reimbursable Courses under Continuing Education Fund.*

Maximum Period of Study

	MSEIE		MSEIE with BM Option		MSEIE with IR
	Full-time	Part-time/ combined mode	Full-time	Part-time/ combined mode	Full-time	Part-time/ combined mode
Normal period of study	1 year	2 years	1.5 year	3 years	1.5 years	N/A
Maximum period of study	2.5 years	5 years	3.5 years	7.5 years	3.5 years	N/A

Student Handbook , Academic Regulations and Guidelines

Student Handbook contains useful programme information that students should get yourself familiar with. Please click here for Student Handbook.

Please also observe the Academic Regulations and Guidelines stipulated by the University, as well as the information about Continuing Education Fund (applicable to local students only).

	Academic Regulations

	Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedure

	Rules on Academic Honesty

	University Assessment Policy and Principles for Taught Programmes

	Continuing Education Fund

Tuition Fees and Leave of Absence

Tuition Fees

	Tuition fee: $3,350 per credit unit ( Local Students ) and $ 5,050 per credit unit ( Non Local Students )

	Minimum tuition fee of two credit units should be paid before the start of Semesters A and B

	Cut-off date for calculating the balance of tuition fee: At the end of University Web Registration Period which is normally the first teaching day in Week 2

Leave of Absence

	If a student does not wish to take any courses in any semester, he/ she has to apply for Leave of Absence before the Web Registration Period ends in a semester/term. Successful applicant is required to pay a Continuation Fee of $1,500 to maintain an active enrolment status in the University.

	Late application for Leave of Absence
	Ø	If a student applies for Leave of Absence from Week 3 till the end of Week 6^# in Semester A/B (or the end of Week 3^# in Summer Term), the student will be liable for 50% of the tuition fee payable for that semester/term, or the minimum tuition for two credit units (for programmes charged on a per credit unit basis), whichever is higher.

	Ø	If a student applies for Leave of Absence in Week 7^# and afterwards in Semester A/B (or Week 4^# and afterwards in Summer Term), the student will be liable for 100% of the tuition fee payable for that semester/term, or the minimum tuition for two credit units (for programmes charged on a per credit unit basis), whichever is higher.

	^#	Sunday is the first day of the week

Financial Assistance (For HK citizen only)

Government's Non-means Tested Loan Scheme

Application forms are obtainable from District Office and the Student Financial Assistance Agency. For details shall refer to http://www.sfaa.gov.hk or make enquiries at 2150 6223

Continuing Education Fund

The CEF support is applicable to students in the self-financing mode only and who are Hong Kong residents having the right of abode or the right to land or to remain in Hong Kong without restriction (i.e. “A” (right of abode), “R” (right to land) or “U” (remain in Hong Kong without restriction) should appear below the date of birth on the HK smart ID card). The following courses have been included in the reimbursable course list of the Continuing Education Fund (CEF). Successful applicants can apply for reimbursement of up to 80% of the course fee, subject to a maximum ceiling of 4 claims and a maximum limit of HK$10,000 within four years after the application is approved. Each claim can contain more than one course.

Course Code	Title	CEF Code	Name of Institution/Course Provider	Institution Code	Offered in
EE5806	Topics in Image Processing ( Module from Master of Science in Electronic Information Engineering)	28Z04745-A	City University of Hong Kong	005	Semester A, 2018/19
EE5808	Topics in Computer Graphics ( Module from Master of Science in Electronic Information Engineering)	28Z04742-5	City University of Hong Kong	005	Semester B, 2018/19
EE5809	Digital Audio Processing and Applications ( Module from Master of Science in Electronic Information Engineering)	28Z07313-2	City University of Hong Kong	005	Semester A, 2018/2019
EE6613	Green Electronics-Theory, Eco-design, Experiments and Application (Module from Master of Science in Electronic Information Engineering)	22Z081627	City University of Hong Kong	005	Semester B, 2018/2019
EE6614	Reliability Engineering in Electronics Industry (Module from Master of Science in Electronic Information Engineering)	22Z082380	City University of Hong Kong	005	Semester A, 2018/2019
EE6805	Video and Speech Compression ( Module from Master of Science in Electronic Information Engineering)	28Z04744-1	City University of Hong Kong	005	Not offered in 2018/19
SEEM6015	Supply Chain Management	25Z03874-6	City University of Hong Kong	005	Semester A, 2018/19
SEEM6037	Managing Strategic Quality	21Z04187-8	City University of Hong Kong	005	Semester A, 2018/19
SEEM6044	China Engineering Enterprise Management	21Z04174-6	City University of Hong Kong	005	Not offered in 2018/19

Remarks: Students will be notified via email if more courses are included in the reimbursement course list of CEF in the future.

Application Procedures

Please visit http://www.sfaa.gov.hk/cef/ for guidelines and download the application form. Please note the following:

If you enrol in more than one CEF course, you are only required to submit your application once. Students who have already obtained approval in-principal for other courses previously need not apply again.

Tuition Fee (Sem A 2018-19):

Since you are only required to pay the full tuition fee by 14 October 2018, please write down "HK$10,050 (The payment due date for this course is 14 October 2018) " for each course at the "Actual Tuition Fees Paid" item in the application form.

Commencement Date:

Please include the following information in the application form. The dates are for CEF application purpose only. You should check the class schedule of individual course for the exact date for attending classes.

For CEF courses commencing in Sem A: 3 September 2018

For CEF courses commencing in Sem B: 14 January 2019

The application form MUST be submitted to the CEF office before the course commencement. LATE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The date of receipt of the application by the CEF Office will be taken as the date of application.

To ensure you can submit your application form to the CEF Office in time, you MUST:

EE Applications

Submit the application in person to Ms Kate Szeto of the EE General Office for certification (Rm G6322, 6/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building) during office hours OR;
Drop in the “EE General Office” drop-in box adjacent to Lift 7, 6/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building out of office hours.

Submission schedule

For the course commencing in Semester A 2018/19
1 - 10 August 2018 (9:00am - 12:15pm, 1:30pm – 6:30pm, Mon – Fri)
13 - 31 August 2018 (9:00am - 12:15pm, 1:30pm – 5:00pm, Mon – Fri)

For the course commencing in Semester B 2018/19
17 - 21 December 2018 (9:00am - 12:15pm, 1:30pm – 6:30pm, Mon – Fri)
27 December 2018 - 11 January 2019 (9:00am - 12:15pm, 1:30pm - 5:00pm, Mon - Fri)

SEEM Applications

Please visit the SEEM website at http://www.cityu.edu.hk/seem/std-cef.htm for application details.

You should then submit the application form, together with a copy of your HKID card, to the CEF office before the course commencement date.

Reimbursement Procedures

To be able to obtain reimbursement from the CEF Office, you MUST satisfy ALL of the following completion requirements:

A minimum attendance rate of 75% (Students should sign on the attendance record during class)
At least 50% passing mark for the final course assessment
A receipt showing that you have settled the tuition fee before the due date

The instructions for lodging claims to students:

Please complete the Reimbursement Claim Form provided by the CEF office in the approval-in-principle letter.
Then drop the Reimbursement Form together with a self-addressed stamped envelope into the Drop-in Box at the EE General Office or send it by post to Ms Kate Szeto, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong.
Please do NOT send any receipts or bank statements to us.
Please visit the SEEM website at http://www.cityu.edu.hk/seem/std-cef.htm for reimbursement details of SEEM courses.

Eligible claimants will receive the verified Form together with a Letter of Completion within 2 weeks after submission of the Reimbursement Claim Form for verification by EE Department. Unsuccessful claimants will also be notified by post.

The eligible claimant should then submit the Form and all the supporting documents (tuition fee receipts, the Letter of Completion and the front page of his/her bank passbook/statement showing the name, account number and bank name / bank code) to the CEF office. Please check http://www.sfaa.gov.hk/cef/ for more information.

Office Hours of EE General Office:

Monday – Friday : 8:30am - 12:15pm
1:30pm - 6:30pm

Office Hours of SEEM General Office:

Monday – Friday : 8:30am to 5:30pm

Lunch Break: 12:30pm to 1:45pm

Enquiries:

Continuing Education Fund Office: 3142 2277
Department of Electronic Engineering
3442 7869 (Ms Kate Szeto); 3442 7740 (General Enquiries)
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
3442 9321 (General Enquiries)

Programme Management Team

Associate Programme Leader (Postgraduate Programmes):	Dr Leanne L H Chan
Executive Officer:	Ms Teresa Chow Tel: (852) 3442 7087 Email: lychow@cityu.edu.hk
Clerical Officer:	Ms Kate Szeto Tel: (852) 3442 7869 Email: kmkszeto@cityu.edu.hk

Enquiries

Department of Electronic Engineering
Tel: (852) 3442 7869 (Ms Kate Szeto); (852) 3442 7087 (Ms Teresa Chow)
Fax: (852) 3442 0562
Email: eemseie@cityu.edu.hk