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The Ohio State University

College of Engineering


GE-ACE program

Questions?

Please contact Mark Cooper, Graduate Studies Coordinator for the MSE department. Mark may be reached at:

The General Electric Advanced Course in Engineering program (GE-ACE) permits qualified employees of General Electric Corp. the opportunity to earn a Master's without Thesis degree in the MSE department (Master's degrees from other departments in the OSU College of Engineering are also available--contact the GE-ACE coordinator for details).

Admission requirements

Go to general application requirements. GE-ACE participants are to apply for admission to the MSE graduate degree program by means of the standard OSU Graduate School application process. This link provides complete information on application requirements, including deadlines, required supporting documents, and more.

Plan of study

Each GE-ACE student is to develop a plan of study in cooperation with his/her OSU academic advisor. This plan of study should detail how the student intends to meet the MS non-thesis requirements within the constraints of the GE-ACE program.

The plan should be submitted to the MSE Graduate Studies Committee Chair before the end of the student's first full-time quarter at OSU. Deviation from the plan will require approval from the GE-ACE office and the MSE Graduate Studies Committee.

Typical path. Though each student's plan of study may vary, our GE-ACE students tend to take 3-5 graduate level courses in their first quarter in the program. The student then returns to GE to take the B and C courses, registering for MSE 693A in the Autumn quarter following successful completion of the A & B courses. Three to five quarters after initial enrollment in OSU, GE students return to campus to complete their graded graduate-level course work. In the GE student's final quarter in the program, s/he is to register for 10 credits of MSE 793 under his/her MSE advisor. This provides the student with graduate level credit for time spent developing his/her GE project. The student defends his/her findings before a committee comprised of the MSE advisor and one additional MSE faculty member.

University credit for GE A and B courses

GE provides, on-site, a sequence of courses for members of the GE-ACE program (these courses are known as "A, B, and C"). A total of 12 graded graduate credit hours will be granted by the MSE department for successful completion of A and B courses, six credits each. These 12 credits will be applied toward the 33 credits of graded graduate-level course work required for the MS non-thesis degree.

GE students are to register for 12 credits of MSE 693A in the quarter following successful completion of the A and B courses.

Project or thesis

Students completing their project must follow GE policy in regard to Approval of Technical Papers and Presentations. Publication and review requirements for projects may dictate restrictions on content. Projects or theses requiring disclosure of GE proprietary information to non-GE personnel will require a Proprietary Information Agreement.

Summary of minimum credit hour requirements

A total of 45 graduate-level credits are required to earn a Master's degree at Ohio State. For the MS non-thesis degree available through the GE-ACE program, these 45 credits are to be arranged as follows:

Graded graduate credits

Description

Credits

MSE 693A (A Course)

6

MSE 693A (B Course)

6

MSE courses > 700 level

6

MSE courses > 600 level

12

Add'l grad credit (may be out of MSE)

3

Non-graded graduate credits

Description

Credits

MSE 795, Seminars in MSE

2

MSE 793 Individual Study (project work)

10

 

Questions and petitions

Questions about the GE-ACE program in MSE should be directed to Mark Cooper, Graduate Studies Coordinator for the MSE department. Please contact Mark as well for guidance in the petition of the MSE Graduate Studies Committee to deviate from these instructions.

Mark may be reached at: