Classes

See the Registrar's office website for the list of classes currently being offered, and their webpages.

  • 145 -- Algorithmic Design I (4) (Prereq: Placement in MATH 141 or grad of C or better in MATH 115) Problem-solving, algorithmic design, and programming. Three lectures and two laboratory hours per week. Open to all majors. www.csce145.com. Syllabus
  • 146 -- Algorithmic Design II (4) (Prereq: Grade of C or better in both CSCE 145 and MATH 141) Continuation of CSCE 145. Rigorous development of algorithms and computer programs; elementary data structures. Three lecture hours and two laboratory hours per week. Open to all majors. Syllabus
  • 190 -- Computing in the Modern World (1) (Coreq: CSCE 145, 204, 205, 206 or equivalent) An introduction to the field of computing: trends in computing technology, the profession, and careers; subdisciplines in computing; the nature of research and development. Open to all majors. Not auditable. Syllabus
  • 201 -- Introduction to Computer Security (3) (Prereq or coreq: CSCE 101) Introduction to the theory and practice of computer security, including security policies, authentification, digital certificates, firewalls, malicious code, legal and ethical issues, and incident handling. Not auditable.
  • 204 -- Program Design and Development (=MGSC 298) (3) (Prereq: CSCE 101 or MGSC 290) Fundamental algorithms and processes used in business information systems. Development and representation of programming logic. Introduction to implementation using a high-level programming language.
  • 205 -- Business Applications Programming. (3) (Prereq: MGSC 290 or CSCE 101 or above) Introduction to computer applications in business. Programming exercises in COBOL. Syllabus
  • 206 -- Scientific Applications Programming (3) (Prereq: MATH 122 or 141) Introduction to computer applications in science and engineering. Programming exercises in a high-level language. Open to all majors. Syllabus
  • 207 -- UNIX System Administration (3) (Prereq: MATH 122 or 141) The Unix programming environment: I/O programming, Unix processes, fork, exec, pipes and signals, and tools. Open to all majors.
  • 209 -- Special Topics in Computer Programming (3) Programming and application development using selected programming languages. Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes by suffix and title.
  • 210 -- Computer Hardware Foundations (3) (Prereq: CSCE 145, 204, 205, 206, or 207) Number representation, data formats, CPU and memory organization, assembly language, I/O and peripherals, computer networks. Syllabus
  • 211 -- Digital Logic Design (3) (Prereq: MATH 141) Number systems, Boolean algebra, logic design, sequential machines. Syllabus
  • 212 -- Introduction to Computer Architecture (3) (Prereq: CSCE 211 and either 145 or 206) Computer architecture, components. and organization; memory addressing; Input/Output; instruction sets; interrupts; assembly-language programming. Syllabus
  • 215 -- UNIX/Linux Fundamentals (1) (Prereq: CSCE 145) UNIX operating system, user-level system commands, and programming tools. UNIX scripting languages. Syllabus
  • 240 -- Introduction to Software Engineering (3) (Prereq: CSCE 215, grade of C or better in CSCE 146) Fundamentals of software design and development; software implementation strategies; object-oriented design techniques; ethics in software development. Syllabus
  • 242 -- Client-Server Computing (3) (Prereq: CSCE 190, 146)) Web technologies to support client-server computing. Implementation of client-server applications.
  • 304 -- Applied Problem Solving and Programming (=MGSC 398) (3) (Prereq: CSCE 204 or MGSC 298) Systematic problem definition, solution formulation, and computer implementation for business and related areas. Internet and database applications. Programming exercises in a high-level programming language.
  • 311 -- Operating Systems (3) (Prereq: CSCE 240, CSCE 210 or 212, MATH 374) Operating system structure and function; process implementation, scheduling, and synchronization; memory management; security; naming protection; resource allocation; network file systems. Syllabus
  • 313 -- Embedded Systems (3) (Prereq: CSCE 211, 212) Fundamentals of embedded systems: hardware components, software components, hardware/software interface design, and hardware/software co-design. Syllabus
  • 317 -- Computer Systems Engineering (3) (Prereq: CSCE 212, MATH 242, STAT 509) System-level modeling and evaluation of computer systems: requirements elicitation and specification, architectural design, reliability and performance evaluation, Markov modeling, life-cycle cost analysis, project management. Syllabus
  • 330 -- Programming Language Structures (3) (Prereq: CSCE 240, MATH 374) Formal specification of syntax and semantics; structure of algorithms; list processing and string manipulation languages; statement types, control structures, and interfacing procedures. Syllabus
  • 350 -- Data Structures and Algorithms (3) (Prereq: CSCE 146, MATH 374) Techniques for representing and processing information, including the use of lists, trees, and graphs; analysis of algorithms; sorting, searching, and hashing techniques. Syllabus
  • 355 -- Foundations of Computation (3) (Prereq: CSCE 211, 212, 350) Basic theoretical principles of computing as modeled by formal languages, grammars, automata, and Turing machines; fundamental limits of computation. Syllabus
  • 374 -- Robotic Applications and Design (3) (Prereq: CSCE 212, 240) Design and control of robots. Interactions between robots, sensing, actuation, and computation.
  • 390 -- Professional Issues in Computer Science and Engineering (3) (Prereq: CSCE 240, SPCH 140) Professional issues in the information technology professions; history and social context of computing; professional responsibilities; privacy; intellectual property; risks and liabilities of computer-based systems. Syllabus
  • 416 -- Introduction to Computer Networks (3) (Prereq: CSCE 311) Concepts and components of computer networks and the Internet; network applications; network protocol stack. Syllabus
  • 490 -- Capstone Software Engineering Project I (3) (Prereq: CSCE 240, 311, either ENGL 462 or 463) Major team-based software design project to be undertaken in a student's final year of study; project planning, software requirements analysis, design, and specification. Written reports and oral presentations in a technical setting.
  • 491 -- Capstone Computer System Project (3) (Prereq: CSCE 311, 317) Advanced computer systems engineering. Team projects. Syllabus
  • 492 -- Capstone Software Engineering Project II (3) (Prereq: CSCE 490) Continuation of CSCE 490. Computer system implementation, testing, verification and validation of results. Written reports and oral presentations in a technical setting. Syllabus
  • 498 -- Independent Study (3) (Prereq: Approval of project proposal by instructor and department advisor) Individual investigation or study of special topics. At most three credits may be applied toward a degree
  • 500 -- Computer Programming and Applications (3) Concepts and properties of algorithms; programming exercises with emphasis on good programming habits. Credit may not be received for both CSCE 500 and CSCE 145. Open to all majors. May not be used for major credit by computer science and engineering majors.
  • 510 -- System Programming (3) (Prereq: CSCE 215, 240) System software such as command language interpreters, client-server applications, debuggers; mail systems, browsers, macroprocessors, and revision control systems; file systems, processes, threads, and interprocess communication. Syllabus
  • 512 -- System Performance Evaluation (3) (Prereq: CSCE 311, STAT 509) Measuring, modeling, analyzing, and predicting performance of computer systems and networks; bottleneck analysis; Markovian queuing systems and networks; use of operational and probabilistic models. Syllabus
  • 513 -- Computer Architecture (3) (Prereq: CSCE 211, 212) Design methodology; processor design; computer arithmetic: algorithms for addition, multiplication, floating point arithmetic; microprogrammed control; memory organization; introduction to parallel architectures. Syllabus
  • 515 -- Computer Network Programming (3) (Prereq: CSCE 311) Computer networks and communication protocols; socket programming; interprocess communication; development of network software; case studies. Syllabus
  • 516 -- Computer Networks (3) (Prereq: STAT 509) Structure, design, and analysis of computer networks; ISO/OSI network architecture. Syllabus
  • 517 -- Computer Crime and Forensics (3) (Prereq: CSCE 311) Methodical approaches for collecting and preserving evidence of computer crimes. Foundational concepts such as file system structures, MAC times, and network protocols; tools for extracting evidence; general legal issues. Syllabus
  • 520 -- Database System Design (3) (Prereq: CSCE 240 or GEOG 563) Database management systems; database design and implementation; security, integrity, and privacy. Syllabus
  • 522 -- Information Security Principles (3) (Prereq: CSCE 311 or MGSC 596) Threats to information resources and appropriate countermeasures. Cryptography, identification and authentication, access control models and mechanisms, multilevel database security, steganography, Internet security, and intrusion detection and prevention Syllabus
  • 526 -- Service Oriented Computing (3) (Prereq: CSCE 311) Cooperative information systems and service-oriented computing. Techniques for achieving coordinated behavior among a decentralized group of information system components. Distributed databases, multiagent systems, conceptual modeling, Web services, and applications. Syllabus
  • 531 -- Compiler Construction (3) (Prereq: CSCE 240) Techniques for design and implementation of compilers, including lexical analysis, parsing, syntax-directed translation, and symbol table management. Syllabus
  • 547 -- Windows Programming (3) (Prereq: CSCE 240) Object-oriented methods and tools for application programming with graphically interactive operating systems. Syllabus
  • 548 -- Building Secure Software (3) (Prereq: CSCE 510 or consent of instructor) Construction of software systems resistant to vulnerabilities and attacks. Cryptographic tools. Language, operating system, and network security. Case studies. Development of best practices through programming assignments. Syllabus
  • 551 -- Theory of Computation. {=MATH 562} (3) (Prereq: CSCE 350 or MATH 526 or 544 or 574) Basic theoretical principles of computing as modeled by formal languages and automata; computability and computational complexity. Syllabus
  • 552 -- Computer Game Development (3) (Prereq: CSCE 240, 350) Design and development of computer games, with emphasis on the technologies used. Hands-on development of computer games.
  • 555 -- Algorithms in Bioinformatics (3) (Prereq: CSCE 350) Concepts, algorithms and tools for important problems in Bioinformatics, including nucleotide and amino acid sequence alignment, DNA fragment assembly, phylogenetic reconstruction, and protein structure visualization and assessment. Syllabus
  • 557 -- Introduction to Cryptography {=MATH 587} (3) (Prereq: CSCE 145, MATH 241, and either CSCE 355 or MATH 574) Design of secret codes for secure communication, including encryption and integrity verification: ciphers, cryptographic hashing, and public key cryptosystems such as RSA. Mathematical principles underlying encryption. Code-breaking techniques. Cryptographic protocols. Syllabus
  • 561 -- Numerical Analysis. {=MATH 527} (3) (Prereq: MATH 242 or 520) Interpolation and approximation of functions; solution of algebraic equations; numerical differentiation and integration; numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations and boundary value problems; computer implementation of algorithms Syllabus
  • 563 -- Systems Simulation (3) (Prereq: CSCE 240, STAT 509) Computer simulation of real systems; principles of system organization; random number generation; programming exercises in a simulation language. Syllabus
  • 564 -- Computational Science (3) (Prereq: MATH 526, CSCE 146 or 207 or 500) Parallel algorithms; scientific visualization; techniques for solving scientific problems. Syllabus
  • 565 -- Introduction to Computer Graphics (3) (Prereq: CSCE 240, MATH 526 or 544) Graphics hardware; graphics primitives; two-dimensional and three-dimensional viewing; basic modeling. Syllabus
  • 567 -- Visualization Tools (3) (Prereq: CSCE 145 or 206 or 207) Scientific visualization tools as applied to sampled and generated data; methods for data manipulation and representation; investigation of visualization techniques. Syllabus
  • 569 -- Parallel Computing (3) (Prereq: knowledge of programming in a high-level language; MATH 526 or 544) Architecture and interconnection of parallel computers; parallel programming models and applications; issues in high-performance computing; programming of parallel computers. Syllabus
  • 574 -- Robotics (3) (Prereq: CSCE 211, 212, and 240) Design and application of robotic systems; emphasis on mobile robots and intelligent machines. Syllabus
  • 578 -- Text Processing (3) (Prereq: CSCE 330, 355) Text and natural language processing; formal models and data structures appropriate for text processing; selected topics in computational linguistics, stylistics, and content analysis. Syllabus
  • 580 -- Artificial Intelligence (3) (Prereq: CSCE 350) Heuristic problem solving, theorem proving, and knowledge representation, including the use of appropriate programming languages and tools. Syllabus
  • 582 -- Bayesian Networks and Decision Graphs. {=STAT 582} (3) (Prereq: CSCE 350 and STAT 509) Normative approaches to uncertainty in artificial intelligence. Probabilistic and causal modeling with Bayesian networks and influence diagrams. Applications in decision analysis and support. Algorithms for probability update in graphical models. Syllabus
  • 590 -- Topics in Information Technology (3) Reading and research on selected topics in information technology. Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of courses by suffix and title. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
  • 611 -- Advanced Digital Design (3) (Prereq: CSCE 212) Design techniques for logic systems; emphasis on higher-level CAD tools such as hardware description languages and functional modeling. Syllabus
  • 612 -- VLSI System Design (3) (Prereq: CSCE 211) VLSI design process models, introduction to EDA tools, HDL modeling and simulation, logic synthesis and simulation, benchmark design projects Syllabus
  • 613 -- Fundamentals of VLSI Chip Design (3) (Prereq: ELEC 371) Design of VLSI circuits, including standard processes, circuit design, layout, and CAD tools. Lecture and guided design projects. Syllabus
  • 711 -- Advanced Operating Systems (3) (Prerequisites: CSCE 311) Operating system organization and interactive processing systems, multiprogramming systems, process management, task scheduling, resource control, deadlocks.
  • 713 -- Advanced Computer Architecture (3) (Prerequisites: CSCE 311 and 513) Architecture of high-performance computers, including array processors, multiprocessor systems, data flow computers, and distributed processing systems.
  • 715 -- Network Systems Security (3) (Prerequisites: CSCE 515 or 516) Analysis of security threats in TCP/IP networks. Design of safeguards. Coverage of security threats at each of the OSI layers. Application of cryptographic protocols for secure communication across a network.
  • 716 -- Design for Reliability (3) (Prerequisites: STAT 509 or 511, or MATH 511) Design of more reliable systems through the application of reliability theory and models; reliability modeling; design techniques; testing; and requirement specifications.
  • 717 -- Computer System Performance and Reliability Analysis (3) (Prerequisites: STAT 509 or 511) Evaluation of computer system performance and reliability using reliability block diagrams, fault trees, reliability graphics, queuing networks, Markov models, and Markov reward models.
  • 718 -- Real-Time Computer Applications (3) (Prerequisites: CSCE 245, 311) Problems of real-time computer applications in process control or similar areas; task scheduling; real-time operating systems; advanced interrupt structures; memory management techniques.
  • 719 -- Security and Privacy for Wireless Networks (3) (Prerequisites: CSCE 416) This course focuses on the security and privacy issues associated with wireless networks. Various attacks against wireless networks and their defense strategies will be analyzed. Students are able to embark in research of wireless network security.
  • 721 -- Physical Database Design (3) (Prerequisites: CSCE 520) Components of a database management system; implementation issues; query optimization; file organization; file organizations’ transaction management; fault recovery; security; system performance.
  • 723 -- Advanced Database Design (3) (Prerequisites: CSCE 520) Database design methodologies and tools; data models; implementation languages; user interfaces.
  • 725 -- Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Models (3) Structure, design, evaluation, and use of information retrieval systems; algorithms and mathematical models for information retrieval; storage and retrieval of textual data in information systems.
  • 727 -- Information Warfare (3) (Prerequisites: CSCE 522) Current trends and challenges in information warfare. High-level analysis of information warfare threats, like cyber terrorism, espionage, Internet fraud, intelligence activities, cyber ethics, and law enforcement.
  • 730 -- Programming Language Semantics (3) (Prereq: CSCE 531) Approaches for specifying programming language semantics, including operational, axiomatic, and denotational specification.
  • 740 -- Software Engineering (3) (Prerequisites: CSCE 240) Current practices and research in software development, requirements definition, design, program testing and reliability, maintenance, and management.
  • 741 -- Software Process (3) Personal, team, and organizational software processes; personal and organizational maturity; application of software process and management concepts during software development, primarily at the individual level.
  • 742 -- Software Architectures (3) ( ) Structural organizations for software systems as collections of interconnected components: formal models and languages; design tools and guidelines.
  • 743 -- Software Requirements (3) (Prereq: CSCE 740) Elicitation, analysis, and validation of software requirements, specification of software systems including formal specification methods; CASE tools.
  • 744 -- Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (3) (Prerequisites: CSCE 350) Fundamentals of object-oriented technology; object modeling of structure, function, and time-dependent behavior; system analysis and design.
  • 745 -- Object-Oriented Programming Methods (3) (Prereq: CSCE 245) Object-oriented programming paradigm, including encapsulation, inheritance, reusable classes, object classification, specialization, and message passing; case studies and applications.
  • 747 -- Software Testing and Quality Assurance (3) (Prereq: CSCE 740) Structural and functional techniques for testing software; code inspection, peer review, test verification and validation; statistical testing methods; preventing and detecting errors; testing metrics; test plans; formal methods of testing. Not auditable.
  • 750 -- Analysis of Algorithms (3) (Prereq: CSCE 350) Algorithm design techniques; algorithms and data structures for sets and graphs; time and space complexity; sorting and searching; NP-complete problems.
  • 755 -- Computability, Automata, and Formal Languages (3) (Prereq: CSCE 355 or 551)) Formal models of computation, including finite state automata, Turing machines, recursive functions, formal grammars, and abstract complexity theory.
  • 758 -- Probabilistic System Analysis (3) (Prereq: STAT 509 or 511) Application of probability theory and stochastic processes to analyze the dynamic behavior of engineering systems.
  • 760 -- Numerical Analysis I (3) (Prereq: MATH 526 or 544) Numerical solution of equations and systems of linear equations, polynomial approximation, difference calculus, solution of ordinary and partial differential equations, least squares and sets of orthogonal polynomials, Gaussian quadrature.
  • 761 -- Numerical Analysis II. {=MATH 727} (3) (Prereq: CSCE 760) Continuation of CSCE 760.
  • 763 -- Digital Image Processing (3) Concepts and techniques for digital image processing; emphasis on low-level processes that analyze discrete images at the pixel level.
  • 765 -- Computer Graphics System Design (3) (Prereq: CSCE 565) Graphics data structures, graphics languages, modeling, raster displays, 3-D shading, hidden surface algorithms.
  • 766 -- Scientific Visualization (3) (Prereq: CSCE 565) Visualization techniques for scientific computing; interactive steering of calculations; animation and rendering techniques for multivariate data analysis.
  • 767 -- Interactive Computer Systems (3) Principles for the design of systems supporting effective human-computer interaction; interaction styles; displays and interactive devices; user assistance; system design and evaluation.
  • 768 -- Pattern Recognition and Classification (3) (Prereq: STAT 509 or 510 or 511) Bayesian classifiers; optimal risk schemes; error rates; numerical methods; implementation; architectures.
  • 769 -- Computational Structural Biology (3) (Prereq: consent of instructor) Theoretical concepts and algorithmic tools currently utilized in the field of protein folding such as Xplor-NIH and ROSETTA are presented. Participants are enabled to embark in research of protein folding.
  • 771 -- Computer Processing of Natural Language. (3) (Prereq: CSCE 580) Computational models for the analysis and synthesis of natural language; representations for syntax and semantics; applications to text-to-speech conversion, speech recognition, and language understanding.
  • 772 -- Computer Speech Processing (3) (Prereq: CSCE 580) A/D conversion, digital filters, discrete Fourier transform and FFT, acoustics of speech, and synthesis and recognition of speech.
  • 774 -- Robotics Systems (3) (Prereq: CSCE 574) Design and operation of robot systems; dynamics, control, and motion trajectories of manipulators; visual, auditory, and tactile sensing systems; planning and learning.
  • 780 -- Knowledge Representation (3) (Prereq: CSCE 580) Representation techniques and languages for symbolic knowledge, including predicate calculus, frame-based systems, and terminological systems; computer reasoning using these systems.
  • 781 -- Knowledge Systems (3) (Prereq: CSCE 580) Expert system domains, knowledge representation techniques, inference engines, and knowledge acquisition methods.
  • 782 -- Multiagent systems (3) Coordinated problem solving by multiple knowledge systems.
  • 784 -- Neural Information Processing (3) (Prereq: MATH 526 or 544) Mathematical foundations of biological and artificial neural networks, supervised and unsupervised systems, applications.
  • 787 -- Introduction to Fuzzy Logic (3) (Prereq: MATH 174) Principles of fuzzy set theory, fuzzy relations, and fuzzy logic; fuzzy "if-then" rules.
  • 790 -- Topics in Information Technology (3) Reading and research on selected topics in information technology. Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of courses by suffix and title. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
  • 791 -- Seminar in Advances in Computing (1) Technical writing and presentations in major computing research areas; ethics in research and writing.
  • 793 -- Internship in Software Engineering (1) Work. Written report required. Not auditable. Pass-Fail Grading.
  • 797 -- Individual Study and Research (12) Individual research to be arranged with the instructor. Pass/Fail grading.
  • 798 -- Directed Study and Research (12) Individual research to be arranged with the instructor.
  • 799 -- Thesis Preparation (12) Thesis preparation.
  • 813 -- Internet Security (3) (Prereq: CSCE 522 and CSCE 715) Study security threats and prevention/detection/response techniques on the Internet, including hackers, masqueraders, information spoofing, sniffing, and distribution of damaging software. Security analysis of Web applications.
  • 814 -- Distributed Systems Security (3) (Prereq: CSCE 522) Security mechanisms of distributed software systems, including cryptographic applications. Secure multiparty computation, group-based cryptography, and security mechanisms for emerging distributed architectures.
  • 815 -- Computer Communications (3) (Prereq: CSCE 515 or 516) Contemporary computer communication protocols and network architectures.
  • 818 -- Top-Down VLSI Design (3) (Prereq: CSCE 611 or CSCE 612) VLSI system design automation, hardware description language-based design, multi-methodology design, and introduction to HDL support tools.
  • 819 -- Custom VLSI Design (3) (Prereq: CSCE 611 or 612) Custom design methodology design rules, stick notation, logic synthesis, and circuit layout; symbolic layout languages; introduction to CAD tools.
  • 821 -- Distributed Database Design (3) (Prereq: CSCE 520) Architecture, design, and implementation of distributed database managements systems; data fragmentation, replication, and allocation; query processing and transaction management; distributed object database management systems.
  • 822 -- Data Mining and Warehousing (3) (Prereq: CSCE 520) Information processing techniques and mathematical tools to assemble, access, and analyze data for decision support and knowledge discovery.
  • 824 -- Secure Database Systems (3) (Prereq: CSCE 522) Security threats to database systems. Access control models, multilevel security, integrity, Web-based databases, and data inference problem. Formal models of multilevel security, confidentiality versus availability and integrity.
  • 826 -- Cooperative Information Systems (3) (Prereq: CSCE 520, 580) Strategies for achieving coordinated behavior among a heterogeneous group of information system components; world-wide information networks and applications in health care, logistics, telecommunications, and manufacturing automation.
  • 846 -- Software Reliability and Safety (3) (Prereq: STAT 509 or 510 or 511) Reliability and safety of computer-intensive systems; software reliability models and analysis; operational profiles; hazard analysis using fault trees and event trees; formal verification of safety-critical systems. Not auditable.
  • 850 -- Advanced Analysis of Algorithms (3) (Prereq: CSCE 750) Definitions of algorithms and formal models of computation; concepts of space and time; synthesis and analysis of algorithms for sorting, search graphs, set manipulation and pattern matching; NP-complete, and intractable problem.
  • 853 -- Formal Methods in Computer Security (3) (Prereq: CSCE 522 and 715) Formal techniques applied to computer security, including formal specification language for security properties, security analysis utilities, domain-specific security concerns, and case studies of formally verified secure systems.
  • 865 -- Advanced Computer Graphics (3) (Prereq: CSCE 765) Input and display devices, data structures, architectures, primitives, and geometrical transformations appropriate to computer graphics, parametric surfaces.
  • 867 -- Computer Vision (3) (Prereq: CSCE 763 ) Scene segmentation using texture, color, motion; representation of 2-D or 3-D structures; knowledge-based vision systems.
  • 868 -- Advanced Pattern Recognition (3) (Prereq: CSCE 768) Feature nomination, selection, extraction, and evaluation; deterministic, stochastic, and fuzzy models for classifier design; parameter estimation; error rate estimation; clustering and sequential learning.
  • 883 -- Machine Learning (3) (Prereq: CSCE 580) Fundamentals of machine learning including rote learning, learning from examples, learning from observations, and learning by analogy; knowledge acquisition for expert systems.
  • 895 -- Ph.D. Seminar (3) Ph.D Seminar.
  • 899 -- Dissertation Preparation (12) Dissertation Preparation