EC ENGR 181DB · EE 181DBHonors Thesis
Electrical and Computer Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Limited to seniors. Research by individuals or small teams under supervision of faculty mentor, leading to composition and presentation of honors thesis. Study of fundamentals of modern research and development: project conception, planning, development and testing; design iteration cycle; research and data documentation standards; how to read technical literature. Planning, execution, and documentation of original open-ended research/development project. Iterations of design. Written documentation in form of thesis documenting results in their societal and technical contexts, and oral presentation/demonstration of final results.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 181DA.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EC ENGR 181DB
- EC ENGR 181DAHonors Thesis
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.