Beyond the Core Subjects
The student may choose as many additional courses as he or she can handle in order to obtain greater depth in the various topical subareas of Area I, greater breadth in other areas, or just to satisfy intellectual curiosity or be exposed to a great teacher. However, keep in mind that:
- Again, it is best to do well in fewer courses than not so well in more courses
- There will be plenty of time at MIT to take all the courses your heart desires
The MIT Bulletin, your graduate counselor, your research supervisor, your instructors, and your graduate student peers are all excellent sources of suggestions for subjects that may be a good match to Area I students and interests. While Area I students invariably end up taking at least as many subjects outside Area I’s offerings as they do inside, in the remainder of this section we summarize some of the historically popular Area I follow-on offerings:
- 6.231 (Dynamic Programming and Stochastic Control)
- 6.242 (Advanced Linear Control Systems)
- 6.243J (Dynamics of Nonlinear Systems)
- 6.245 (Multivariable Control Systems)
- 6.252J (Nonlinear Programming)
- 6.263J (Data-Communication Networks)
- 6.291 (Seminar in Systems, Communication, and Control Research)
- 6.343 (Digital Speech Processing)
- 6.344 (Two-Dimensional Signal and Image Processing)
- 6.345 (Automatic Speech Recognition)
- 6.435 (System Identification)
- 6.441 (Transmission of Information)
- 6.442 (Optical Networks)
- 6.451 (Principles of Digital Communication II)
- 6.452(Principles of Wireless Communication)
- 6.454 (Graduate Seminar in Area I)
- 6.455 (Sonar, Radar and Seismic Signal Processing)
- 6.456 (Array Processing)