ECE Students must pre-enrol in all elective courses.
Courses without sufficient numbers after pre-enrollment will be canceled.

Each ECE student of the Class of 2014+ must take two Natural Sciences Electives (NSEs) (see the Undergraduate Calendar). Two lists of courses have been approved and each student must take one course from List 1 Intensive Natural Sciences Courses and a second course from either List 1 or List 2 Natural Sciences Courses. With approval, it is possible to instead take three (3) courses from List 2; however, the third course must be taken as an extra during a Co-op Work-term or as an extra course during an Academic Term.

Natural sciences electives allow students to choose their specialization in the sciences. For example, a student may choose to focus in one of the following areas:

• Biology
• Chemistry
• Earth Sciences
• Environmental Sciences
• Physics

Note that only computer engineering students may count ECE 209 Electronic and Electrical Properties of Materials as a NSE.

The department will offer three scheduled List-1 NSE courses in 4A and 4B starting in Spring 2013 and Winter 2014, respectively:

• ECE 403 Thermal Physics (4A)
• ECE 404 Geometrical and Physical Optics (4B)
• ECE 405 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (4B)

These courses will be cross-listed with PHYS courses.

If you read through the List-1 Natural Science Intensive Courses in the Undergraduate Calendar, you will note that many of the courses are associated with associated with laboratories. Unlike ECE courses, it is necessary to enrol in both the course and the laboratory separately. The List-1 courses that are listed with a laboratory component are also listed in List 2 if a student chooses to take just the course component without the associated laboratory.