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Computer Engineering B.Comp.E.

Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Science and Engineering
  • Program Type: Baccalaureate
  • Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2014
  • Required credits to graduate with this degree: 124
  • Required credits within the major: 108
  • Degree: Bachelor of Computer Engineering
The mission of the computer engineering program is to educate students in core topics, as well as in a broad set of specialties of computer engineering; to impart students with professional attributes that characterize a well-schooled engineer and citizen; and to provide students with opportunities for research experience in one of the leading computer engineering centers of scholarship. The field of computer engineering resulted from the tremendous development of computers and, in particular, the evolution of microprocessors. The design process for almost every electronic system includes the specification and development of the control program for the system's microprocessor. A particular computer engineering job can be more closely related to hardware or software, to functional design or detailed design. The B.Comp.Eng. degree provides the background necessary for persons, with continuing study, to work in many computer engineering subfields. The bachelor's degree itself does not, however, provide highly specialized knowledge in any particular subfield.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
Admission Requirements
Students must complete 9 courses before admission to the program.
Freshman and transfer students are usually admitted to pre-major status before admission to this major.
Students interested in pursuing a degree in computer engineering or electrical engineering are encouraged to take EE 1001 in their first year.
For information about University of Minnesota admission requirements, visit the Office of Admissions website.
Required prerequisites
Mathematics
MATH 1271 - Calculus I [MATH] (4.0 cr)
or MATH 1371 - CSE Calculus I [MATH] (4.0 cr)
or MATH 1571H - Honors Calculus I [MATH] (4.0 cr)
MATH 1272 - Calculus II (4.0 cr)
or MATH 1372 - CSE Calculus II (4.0 cr)
or MATH 1572H - Honors Calculus II (4.0 cr)
MATH 2243 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations (4.0 cr)
or MATH 2373 - CSE Linear Algebra and Differential Equations (4.0 cr)
or MATH 2573H - Honors Calculus III (4.0 cr)
Required prerequisites
Physics
PHYS 1301W - Introductory Physics for Science and Engineering I [PHYS, WI] (4.0 cr)
or PHYS 1401V - Honors Physics I [PHYS, WI] (4.0 cr)
PHYS 1302W - Introductory Physics for Science and Engineering II [PHYS, WI] (4.0 cr)
or PHYS 1402V - Honors Physics II [PHYS, WI] (4.0 cr)
Required prerequisites
Lower Division Core Courses Required for Admission to Upper Division
CSCI 1113 - Introduction to C/C++ Programming for Scientists and Engineers (4.0 cr)
CSCI 1913 - Introduction to Algorithms, Data Structures, and Program Development (4.0 cr)
EE 2001 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)
EE 2301 - Introduction to Digital System Design (4.0 cr)
General Requirements
All students in baccalaureate degree programs are required to complete general University and college requirements including writing and liberal education courses. For more information about University-wide requirements, see the liberal education requirements. Required courses for the major, minor or certificate in which a student receives a D grade (with or without plus or minus) do not count toward the major, minor or certificate (including transfer courses).
Program Requirements
Additional Lower Division Courses
Mathematics
MATH 2374 - CSE Multivariable Calculus and Vector Analysis (4.0 cr)
or MATH 2263 - Multivariable Calculus (4.0 cr)
or MATH 2574H - Honors Calculus IV (4.0 cr)
or MATH 3584H {Inactive} (5.0 cr)
Lower Division Core Courses
EE 2002 {Inactive} (1.0 cr)
EE 2011 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)
EE 2361 - Introduction to Microcontrollers (4.0 cr)
CSCI 2011 - Discrete Structures of Computer Science (4.0 cr)
Upper Division Required Courses
Computer Science Core
CSCI 4041 - Algorithms and Data Structures (4.0 cr)
CSCI 4061 - Introduction to Operating Systems (4.0 cr)
Electrical Engineering Core
EE 3015 - Signals and Systems (3.0 cr)
EE 3025 - Statistical Methods in Electrical and Computer Engineering (3.0 cr)
EE 3101 - Signals, Circuits and Electronics Laboratory (1.0 cr)
EE 3102 {Inactive} (2.0 cr)
EE 3115 - Analog Electronics (3.0 cr)
EE 4363 - Computer Architecture and Machine Organization (4.0 cr)
CompE Technical Electives
Students must complete 28 technical elective credits, with a minimum of 22 coming from EE 4xxx, EE 5xxx, CSCI 4xxx, or CSCI 5xxx courses. Of the technical electives, one course must be chosen from 4 of the 6 specialty areas, and at least 2 courses must be chosen from 1 of the 6 specialty areas. A senior design project is also required, as are two additional approved lab courses. Students who complete the two-semester senior honors project only need to take one additional EE lab course.
Take 28 or more credit(s) from the following:
Department Electives
Take 22 or more credit(s) including 0 or more sub-requirements(s) from the following:
Senior Design Project
A senior design project is required.
· EE 4951W - Senior Design Project [WI] (4.0 cr)
or EE 4981H - Senior Honors Project I (2.0 cr)
EE 4982V - Senior Honors Project II [WI] (2.0 cr)
· Lab Courses
Two additional EE lab courses are required. Senior honors project students only need to take one.
Take 2 or more course(s) from the following:
· EE 4111 - Advanced Analog Electronics Design (4.0 cr)
· EE 4235 - Linear Control Systems Laboratory (1.0 cr)
· EE 4237 - State Space Control Laboratory (1.0 cr)
· EE 4301 - Digital Design With Programmable Logic (4.0 cr)
· EE 4341 - Embedded System Design (4.0 cr)
· EE 4505 - Communications Systems Laboratory (1.0 cr)
· EE 4703 - Electric Drives Laboratory (1.0 cr)
· EE 4722 - Power System Analysis Laboratory (1.0 cr)
· EE 4743 - Switch-Mode Power Electronics Laboratory (1.0 cr)
· EE 4930 - Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratory (1.0-2.0 cr)
· EE 5141 - Introduction to Microsystem Technology (4.0 cr)
· EE 5173 - Basic Microelectronics Laboratory (1.0 cr)
· EE 5327 - VLSI Design Laboratory (3.0 cr)
· EE 5545 - Digital Signal Processing Design (3.0 cr)
· EE 5613 - RF/Microwave Circuit Design Laboratory (2.0 cr)
· EE 5622 - Physical Optics Laboratory (1.0 cr)
· EE 5628 {Inactive} (1.0 cr)
· EE 5657 - Physical Principles of Thin Film Technology (4.0 cr)
· CSCI 4511W - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence [WI] (4.0 cr)
· CSCI 5511 - Artificial Intelligence I (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5551 - Introduction to Intelligent Robotic Systems (3.0 cr)
· Breadth and Depth Requirements (Specialty Areas)
One course chosen from four specialty areas and two courses chosen from one specialty area.
Computer Architecture
Take 0 or more course(s) from the following:
· EE 4389W - Introduction to Predictive Learning [WI] (3.0 cr)
· EE 5364 - Advanced Computer Architecture (3.0 cr)
· EE 5371 - Computer Systems Performance Measurement and Evaluation (3.0 cr)
· EE 5393 - Circuits, Computation, and Biology (3.0 cr)
· EE 5351 - Applied Parallel Programming (3.0 cr)
Robotics and Embedded System Design
Take 0 or more course(s) from the following:
· EE 4231 - Linear Control Systems: Designed by Input/Output Methods (3.0 cr)
· EE 4233 - State Space Control System Design (3.0 cr)
· EE 4341 - Embedded System Design (4.0 cr)
· CSCI 4511W - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence [WI] (4.0 cr)
· CSCI 5143 - Real-Time and Embedded Systems (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5551 - Introduction to Intelligent Robotic Systems (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5552 - Sensing and Estimation in Robotics (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5511 - Artificial Intelligence I (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5512 - Artificial Intelligence II (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5521 - Machine Learning Fundamentals (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5561 - Computer Vision (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5525 - Machine Learning: Analysis and Methods (3.0 cr)
VLSI and CAD
Take 0 or more course(s) from the following:
· EE 4301 - Digital Design With Programmable Logic (4.0 cr)
· EE 5301 - VLSI Design Automation I (3.0 cr)
· EE 5302 - VLSI Design Automation II (3.0 cr)
· EE 5323 - VLSI Design I (3.0 cr)
· EE 5324 - VLSI Design II (3.0 cr)
· EE 5327 - VLSI Design Laboratory (3.0 cr)
· EE 5329 - VLSI Digital Signal Processing Systems (3.0 cr)
· EE 5333 - Analog Integrated Circuit Design (3.0 cr)
Networks and Communication
Take 0 or more course(s) from the following:
· EE 4501 - Communications Systems (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 4131 - Internet Programming (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 4211 - Introduction to Computer Networks (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5211 - Data Communications and Computer Networks (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5221 - Foundations of Advanced Networking (3.0 cr)
· EE 5583 - Error Control Coding (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5271 - Introduction to Computer Security (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5231 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)
· EE 5381 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)
Systems and Software Design
Take 0 or more course(s) from the following:
· CSCI 4707 - Practice of Database Systems (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5103 - Operating Systems (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5105 - Introduction to Distributed Systems (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5106 - Programming Languages (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5115 - User Interface Design, Implementation and Evaluation (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5161 - Introduction to Compilers (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5708 - Architecture and Implementation of Database Management Systems (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5801 - Software Engineering I (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5802 - Software Engineering II (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 4011 - Formal Languages and Automata Theory (4.0 cr)
· CSCI 5271 - Introduction to Computer Security (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5421 - Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5607 - Fundamentals of Computer Graphics 1 (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5707 - Principles of Database Systems (3.0 cr)
Computational Science
Take 0 or more course(s) from the following:
· CSCI 5609 - Visualization (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5302 - Analysis of Numerical Algorithms (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5304 - Computational Aspects of Matrix Theory (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5451 - Introduction to Parallel Computing: Architectures, Algorithms, and Programming (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5461 - Functional Genomics, Systems Biology, and Bioinformatics (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5481 - Computational Techniques for Genomics (3.0 cr)
· CSCI 5523 - Introduction to Data Mining (3.0 cr)
· Other Approved Technical Electives
Up to 6 credits can count from the following courses, fulfilling a portion of the required 28 technical elective credits.
· AEM 2011 - Statics (3.0 cr)
or AEM 2012 - Dynamics (3.0 cr)
or AEM 2021 - Statics and Dynamics (4.0 cr)
or AEM 4601 - Instrumentation Laboratory (3.0 cr)
or BBE 3013 - Engineering Principles of Molecular and Cellular Processes (3.0 cr)
or BIOC 3021 - Biochemistry (3.0 cr)
or BMEN 5401 - Advanced Biomedical Imaging (3.0 cr)
or CEGE 3502 - Fluid Mechanics (4.0 cr)
or CHEM 2301 - Organic Chemistry I (3.0 cr)
or CHEM 2302 - Organic Chemistry II (3.0 cr)
or CHEM 2311 - Organic Lab (4.0 cr)
or IE 5441 - Financial Decision Making (4.0 cr)
or IE 5511 - Human Factors and Work Analysis (4.0 cr)
or IE 5513 - Engineering Safety (4.0 cr)
or IE 5522 - Quality Engineering and Reliability (4.0 cr)
or IE 5531 - Engineering Optimization I (4.0 cr)
or IE 5541 - Project Management (4.0 cr)
or IE 5551 - Production and Inventory Systems (4.0 cr)
or IE 5553 - Simulation (4.0 cr)
or MATH 3283W - Sequences, Series, and Foundations: Writing Intensive [WI] (4.0 cr)
or MATH 4xxx
or MATH 5xxx
or MATS 3011 - Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering (3.0 cr)
or MATS 3012 - Metals and Alloys (3.0 cr)
or MATS 3013 - Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Materials (3.0 cr)
or MATS 3851W - Materials Properties Lab [WI] (4.0 cr)
or ME 3324 - Introduction to Thermal Science (3.0 cr)
or ME 3331 - Thermodynamics (3.0 cr)
or ME 3332 - Fluid Mechanics (3.0 cr)
or ME 3333 - Heat Transfer (3.0 cr)
or PHSL 3061 - Principles of Physiology (4.0 cr)
or PHYS 2303 - Physics III: Physics of Matter (4.0 cr)
or PHYS 2403H {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
or PHYS 2503 - Physics III: Intro to Waves, Optics, and Special Relativity (4.0 cr)
or PHYS 2601 - Quantum Physics (4.0 cr)
or PHYS 2605 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)
or PHYS 4101 - Quantum Mechanics (4.0 cr)
or PHYS 4201 - Statistical and Thermal Physics (3.0 cr)
or STAT 5041 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)
or STAT 5101 - Theory of Statistics I (4.0 cr)
or STAT 5102 - Theory of Statistics II (4.0 cr)
or BMEN 5101 - Advanced Bioelectricity and Instrumentation (3.0 cr)
or BMEN 5111 - Biomedical Ultrasound (3.0 cr)
or BMEN 5151 - Introduction to BioMEMS and Medical Microdevices (2.0 cr)
or BMEN 5421 - Introduction to Biomedical Optics (3.0 cr)
or IE 5111 - Systems Engineering I (2.0 cr)
or IE 5112 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)
or IE 5113 - Systems Engineering II (4.0 cr)
or Students must complete EE 3041 and EE 4043W to receive credit. The third course in the sequence, EE 4044, is optional.
EE 3041 {Inactive} (2.0 cr)
EE 4043W - Industrial Assignment II [WI] (4.0 cr)
or Other Business, Law, and Entrepreneurial Related Courses
Students may take a maximum of 4 credits from the following courses in partial fulfillment of the technical elective requirements
BLAW 3058 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
or MOT 4001 - Leadership, Professionalism and Business Basics for Engineers (2.0 cr)
or MGMT 4080W - Applied Technology Entrepreneurship [WI] (4.0 cr)
or Management Minor
Students must complete a management minor to receive any credit. Only the following courses count.
ACCT 3001 - Strategic Management Accounting (3.0 cr)
or FINA 3001 - Finance Fundamentals (3.0 cr)
or MGMT 3001 - Fundamentals of Management (3.0 cr)
or MKTG 3001 - Principles of Marketing (3.0 cr)
or HRIR 3021 - Human Capital Management (3.0 cr)
or MGMT 3015 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship (4.0 cr)
or SCO 3001 - Sustainable Supply Chain and Operations (3.0 cr)
or PA 3003 - Nonprofit and Public Financial Management (3.0 cr)
or PA 4101 - Nonprofit Management and Governance (3.0 cr)
or IDSC 3001 - Information Systems & Digital Transformation [TS] (3.0 cr)
or Accounting Minor
Students must complete an accounting minor to receive any credit. Only the following courses count.
ACCT 5101 - Intermediate Accounting I (4.0 cr)
or ACCT 5102 - Intermediate Accounting II (4.0 cr)
or ACCT 5201 - Intermediate Management Accounting (2.0 cr)
or ACCT 5135 - Fundamentals of Federal Income Tax (4.0 cr)
or ACCT 5161 - Financial Statement Analysis (2.0 cr)
or ACCT 5181 - Consolidations and Advanced Reporting (2.0 cr)
or ACCT 5311 - International Accounting (2.0 cr)
or Biochemistry Minor
Students must complete a biochem minor to receive any credit. Only the following courses count.
BIOC 4331 - Biochemistry I: Structure, Catalysis, and Metabolism in Biological Systems (4.0 cr)
or BIOC 4332 - Biochemistry II: Molecular Mechanisms of Signal Transduction and Gene Expression (4.0 cr)
or BIOC 4025W - Laboratory in Biochemistry [WI] (2.0 cr)
or Biology Minor
Students must complete a biology minor to receive any credit. On
BIOL 3xxx
or BIOL 4xxx
or BIOL 5xxx
or Other Minors as approved by director of UG studies
Other minors may count toward technical electives if approved by the ECE director of UG studies.
Upper-division Writing Intensive within the major
Students are required to take one upper-division Writing Intensive course within the major. If that requirement has not been satisfied within the core major requirements, students must choose one course from the following list. Some of these courses may also fulfill other major requirements.
Take 0 - 1 course(s) from the following:
· ACCT 5102 - Intermediate Accounting II (4.0 cr)
· CSCI 4511W - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence [WI] (4.0 cr)
· EE 4043W - Industrial Assignment II [WI] (4.0 cr)
· EE 4389W - Introduction to Predictive Learning [WI] (3.0 cr)
· EE 4951W - Senior Design Project [WI] (4.0 cr)
· EE 5657 - Physical Principles of Thin Film Technology (4.0 cr)
· MATH 3283W - Sequences, Series, and Foundations: Writing Intensive [WI] (4.0 cr)
· MATS 3851W - Materials Properties Lab [WI] (4.0 cr)
· MGMT 4080W - Applied Technology Entrepreneurship [WI] (4.0 cr)
 
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MATH 1271 - Calculus I (MATH)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Math 1271/Math 1381/Math 1571/
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Differential calculus of functions of a single variable, including polynomial, rational, exponential, and trig functions. Applications, including optimization and related rates problems. Single variable integral calculus, using anti-derivatives and simple substitution. Applications may include area, volume, work problems. prereq: 4 yrs high school math including trig or satisfactory score on placement test or grade of at least C- in [1151 or 1155]
MATH 1371 - CSE Calculus I (MATH)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Math 1271/Math 1381/Math 1571/
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Differentiation of single-variable functions, basics of integration of single-variable functions. Applications: max-min, related rates, area, curve-sketching. Use of calculator, cooperative learning. prereq: CSE or pre-bioprod concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in biosys engn (PRE), background in [precalculus, geometry, visualization of functions/graphs], instr consent; familiarity with graphing calculators recommended
MATH 1571H - Honors Calculus I (MATH)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Math 1271/Math 1381/Math 1571/
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Differential/integral calculus of functions of a single variable. Emphasizes hard problem-solving rather than theory. prereq: Honors student and permission of University Honors Program
MATH 1272 - Calculus II
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Math 1272/Math 1282/Math 1372/
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Techniques of integration. Calculus involving transcendental functions, polar coordinates. Taylor polynomials, vectors/curves in space, cylindrical/spherical coordinates. prereq: [1271 or equiv] with grade of at least C-
MATH 1372 - CSE Calculus II
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Math 1272/Math 1282/Math 1372/
Typically offered: Every Spring
Techniques of integration. Calculus involving transcendental functions, polar coordinates, Taylor polynomials, vectors/curves in space, cylindrical/spherical coordinates. Use of calculators, cooperative learning. prereq: Grade of at least C- in [1371 or equiv], CSE or pre-Bioprod/Biosys Engr
MATH 1572H - Honors Calculus II
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Math 1272/Math 1282/Math 1372/
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Continuation of 1571. Infinite series, differential calculus of several variables, introduction to linear algebra. prereq: 1571H (or equivalent) honors student
MATH 2243 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Math 2243/Math 2373/Math 2574H
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Linear algebra: basis, dimension, matrices, eigenvalues/eigenvectors. Differential equations: first-order linear, separable; second-order linear with constant coefficients; linear systems with constant coefficients. prereq: [1272 or 1282 or 1372 or 1572] w/grade of at least C-
MATH 2373 - CSE Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Math 2243/Math 2373/Math 2574H
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Linear algebra: basis, dimension, eigenvalues/eigenvectors. Differential equations: linear equations/systems, phase space, forcing/resonance, qualitative/numerical analysis of nonlinear systems, Laplace transforms. Use of computer technology. prereq: [1272 or 1282 or 1372 or 1572] w/grade of at least C-, CSE or pre-Bio Prod/Biosys Engr
MATH 2573H - Honors Calculus III
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Math 2263/Math 2374/Math 2573H
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Integral calculus of several variables. Vector analysis, including theorems of Gauss, Green, Stokes. prereq: Math 1572H (or equivalent), honors student
PHYS 1301W - Introductory Physics for Science and Engineering I (PHYS, WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Phys 1201W/1301W/1401V/1501V
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Use of fundamental principles to solve quantitative problems. Motion, forces, conservation principles, structure of matter. Applications to mechanical systems. Prereq or Concurrent: MATH 1271/1371/1371H or equivalent
PHYS 1401V - Honors Physics I (PHYS, WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Phys 1201W/1301W/1401V/1501V
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Comprehensive, calculus-level general physics. Emphasizes use of fundamental principles to solve quantitative problems. Description of motion, forces, conservation principles. Structure of matter, with applications to mechanical systems. Prereq: Honors program or with permission, Prereq or Concurrent: MATH 1271/1371/1571H or equivalent
PHYS 1302W - Introductory Physics for Science and Engineering II (PHYS, WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Phys 1202W/1302W/1402V/1502V
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Use of fundamental principles to solve quantitative problems. Motion, forces, conservation principles, fields, structure of matter. Applications to electromagnetic phenomena. Prereq: PHYS 1301 or equivalent, Prereq or Concurrent: MATH 1272/1372/1572H or equivalent
PHYS 1402V - Honors Physics II (PHYS, WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Phys 1202W/1302W/1402V/1502V
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Fundamental principles to solve quantitative problems. Description of motion, forces, conservation principles, fields. Structure of matter, with applications to electro-magnetic phenomena. Honors program or with permission, PHYS 1401V or equivalent, Prereq or CC: MATH 1272/1372/1572H or equivalent
CSCI 1113 - Introduction to C/C++ Programming for Scientists and Engineers
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Programming for scientists/engineers. C/C++ programming constructs, object-oriented programming, software development, fundamental numerical techniques. Exercises/examples from various scientific fields. The online modality for CSci 1113 will only be offered during the summer session. prereq: Math 1271 or Math 1371 or Math 1571H or instr consent.
CSCI 1913 - Introduction to Algorithms, Data Structures, and Program Development
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Advanced object oriented programming to implement abstract data types(stacks, queues, linked lists, hash tables, binary trees) using Java language. Searching/sorting algorithms. Basic algorithmic analysis. Scripting languages using Python language. Substantial programming projects. Weekly lab. prereq: (EE major and EE 1301) or (CmpE major and EE 1301) or 1103 or 1113 or instr consent
EE 2301 - Introduction to Digital System Design
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Boolean algebra, logic gates, combinational logic, logic simplification, sequential logic, design of synchronous sequential logic, Verilog modeling, design of logic circuits. Integral lab. Prereq: [EE 1301 (preferred) or CSCI 1113 or CSCI 1103 or CSci 1133]
MATH 2374 - CSE Multivariable Calculus and Vector Analysis
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Math 2263/Math 2374/Math 2573H
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Derivative as linear map. Differential/integral calculus of functions of several variables, including change of coordinates using Jacobians. Line/surface integrals. Gauss, Green, Stokes theorems. Use of computer technology. prereq: [1272 or 1282 or 1372 or 1572] w/grade of at least C-, CSE or pre-Bioprod/Biosys Engr
MATH 2263 - Multivariable Calculus
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Math 2263/Math 2374/Math 2573H
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Derivative as linear map. Differential/integral calculus of functions of several variables, including change of coordinates using Jacobians. Line/surface integrals. Gauss, Green, Stokes Theorems. prereq: [1272 or 1372 or 1572] w/grade of at least C-
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Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Math 2243/Math 2373/Math 2574H
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Advanced linear algebra, differential equations. Additional topics as time permits. prereq: Math 1572H or Math 2573H, honors student and permission of University Honors Program
EE 2361 - Introduction to Microcontrollers
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Basic computer organization, opcodes, assembly language programming, logical operations and bit manipulation in C, stack structure, timers, parallel/serial input/output, buffers, input pulse-width and period measurements, PWM output, interrupts and multi-tasking, using special-purpose features such as A/D converters. Integral lab. Prereq: [EE 2301]
CSCI 2011 - Discrete Structures of Computer Science
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: CSci 2011/CSci 2011H
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Foundations of discrete mathematics. Sets, sequences, functions, big-O, propositional/predicate logic, proof methods, counting methods, recursion/recurrences, relations, trees/graph fundamentals. prereq: MATH 1271 or MATH 1371 or instr consent
CSCI 4041 - Algorithms and Data Structures
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: CSci 4041/CSci 4041H
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Rigorous analysis of algorithms/implementation. Algorithm analysis, sorting algorithms, binary trees, heaps, priority queues, heapsort, balanced binary search trees, AVL trees, hash tables and hashing, graphs, graph traversal, single source shortest path, minimum cost spanning trees. prereq: [(1913 or 1933) and 2011] or instr consent; cannot be taken for grad CSci cr
CSCI 4061 - Introduction to Operating Systems
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: CSci 4061/INet 4001
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Processes/threads, process coordination, interprocess communication, asynchronous events, memory management/file systems. Systems programming projects using operating system interfaces and program development tools. prereq: 2021 or EE 2361; CS upper div, CompE upper div., EE upper div., EE grad, ITI upper div., Univ. honors student, or dept. permission; no cr for grads in CSci.
EE 3015 - Signals and Systems
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Basic techniques for analysis/design of signal processing, communications, and control systems. Time/frequency models, Fourier-domain representations, modulation. Discrete-time/digital signal/system analysis. Z transform. State models, stability, feedback. Suggest taking EE 3101 concurrently. prereq: [2115, CSE Upper Division] or dept consent
EE 3025 - Statistical Methods in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Notions of probability. Elementary statistical data analysis. Random variables, densities, expectation, correlation. Random processes, linear system response to random waveforms. Spectral analysis. Computer experiments for analysis and design in random environment. prereq: [3015, CSE upper division] or instr approval
EE 3101 - Signals, Circuits and Electronics Laboratory
Credits: 1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Experiments in electronic systems for information processing; modulation, demodulation, and filtering using analog and digital electronics; sampling, quantization and digital filtering; feedback and phase lock loops. prereq: [2115, &3015, &3115, CSE Upper Division] or dept consent
EE 3115 - Analog Electronics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Basic differential amplifiers using FETs and BJTs. Current sources for differential amplifiers. Op- amp-based differential amplifiers. IC op amps as multi-stage amplifiers. Ideal (dc) feedback. Stability and compensation of negative feedback amplifiers. Sinusoidal oscillators. Waveshaping circuits. Power amplifiers. Use of circuit simulators. EE 3015 and EE 3101 should be taken before or concurrently with EE 3115. prereq: [EE 2115, &EE 3015, CSE upper division] or dept consent
EE 4363 - Computer Architecture and Machine Organization
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: CSci 4203/EE 4363
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Introduction to computer architecture. Aspects of computer systems, such as pipelining, memory hierarchy, and input/output systems. Performance metrics. Examines each component of a complicated computer system. prereq: 2361
EE 4951W - Senior Design Project (WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Team participation in formulating/solving open-ended design problems. Oral/written presentations. prereq: 3015, 3115, 3102, attendance first day of class
EE 4981H - Senior Honors Project I
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Experience in research/design for electrical/computer engineering. Oral/written reports. prereq: ECE honors, sr, instr consent
EE 4982V - Senior Honors Project II (WI)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Experience in research/design for electrical/computer engineering. Oral/written reports. prereq: 4981
EE 4111 - Advanced Analog Electronics Design
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Basic integrated circuit building blocks of differential amplifiers, high bandwidth, instrumentation amplifiers. Current/voltage references. Feedback, stability, and noise in electronic circuits. Integral lab. prereq: 3015, 3115
EE 4235 - Linear Control Systems Laboratory
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Lab to accompany 4231. prereq: 4231 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 4231
EE 4237 - State Space Control Laboratory
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Lab to accompany 4233. prereq: 4233 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 4233; no cr for [EE or CompE] grad students
EE 4301 - Digital Design With Programmable Logic
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
Introduction to system design/simulation. Design using Verilog code/synthesis. Emulation using Verilog code. prereq: 2301, [1301 or CSCI 1113 or CSCI 1901]
EE 4341 - Embedded System Design
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Microcontroller interfacing for embedded system design. Exception handling/interrupts. Memory Interfacing. Parallel/serial input/output methods. System Buses and protocols. Serial Buses and component interfaces. Microcontroller Networks. Real-Time Operating Systems. Integral lab. prereq: 2301, 2361, upper div CSE
EE 4505 - Communications Systems Laboratory
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Experiments in analysis/design of wired/wireless communication systems. Lab to accompany 4501. prereq: 4501 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 4501
EE 4703 - Electric Drives Laboratory
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Laboratory to accompany 4701. Simulink-based simulations of electric machines/drives in applications such as energy conservation and motion control in robotics. prereq: 4701 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 4701
EE 4722 - Power System Analysis Laboratory
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Lab analysis of AC power systems, power system networks, power flow, short circuit, transient stability. prereq: 4721 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 4721
EE 4743 - Switch-Mode Power Electronics Laboratory
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Laboratory to accompany 4741. PSpice-/Simulink-based simulations of converters, topologies, and control in switch-mode dc power supplies, motor drives for motion control, and inverters for interfacing renewable energy sources to utility grid. prereq: 4741 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 4741
EE 4930 - Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratory
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Lab work not available in regular courses. Topics vary. prereq: CSE sr or grad student or instr consent
EE 5141 - Introduction to Microsystem Technology
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Microelectromechanical systems composed of microsensors, microactuators, and electronics integrated onto common substrate. Design, fabrication, and operation principles. Labs on micromachining, photolithography, etching, thin film deposition, metallization, packaging, and device characterization. prereq: [3161, 3601, CSE grad student] or dept consent
EE 5173 - Basic Microelectronics Laboratory
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Students fabricate a polysilicon gate, single-layer metal, NMOS chip, performing 80 percent of processing, including photolithography, diffusion, oxidation, and etching. In-process measurement results are compared with final electrical test results. Simple circuits are used to estimate technology performance. prereq: [[5171 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 5171], CSE grad student] or dept consent
EE 5327 - VLSI Design Laboratory
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Complete design of an integrated circuit. Designs evaluated by computer simulation. prereq: [4301, [5323 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 5323], CSE grad student] or dept consent
EE 5545 - Digital Signal Processing Design
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Real-time implementation of digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms, including filtering, sample-rate conversion, and FFT-based spectral analysis. Implementation on a modern DSP Platform. Processor architecture. Arithmetic operations. Real-time processing issues. Processor limitations. Integral laboratory. prereq: [4541, CSE grad student] or dept consent
EE 5613 - RF/Microwave Circuit Design Laboratory
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Scattering parameters, planar lumped circuits, transmission lines, RF/microwave substrate materials, matching networks/tuning elements, resonators, filters, combiners/dividers, couplers. Integral lab. prereq: [[5601 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 5601], CSE grad student] or dept consent
EE 5622 - Physical Optics Laboratory
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Fundamental optical techniques. Diffraction and optical pattern recognition. Spatial/temporal coherence. Interferometry. Speckle. Coherent/incoherent imaging. Coherent image processing. Fiber Optics. prereq: [[5621 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 5621], CSE grad student] or dept consent
EE 5657 - Physical Principles of Thin Film Technology
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Fabrication, characterization, and application of thin film and nanostructured materials and devices. Focuses on vacuum deposition. Materials science. Hands-on, team-based labs.
CSCI 4511W - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: CSci 4511W/CSci 5511
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Problem solving, search, inference techniques. Knowledge representation. Planning. Machine learning. Robotics. Lisp programming language. Cannot be taken for grad CSci credit. prereq: 2041 or instr consent
CSCI 5511 - Artificial Intelligence I
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: CSci 4511W/CSci 5511
Prerequisites: [2041 or #], grad student
Typically offered: Every Fall
Introduction to AI. Problem solving, search, inference techniques. Logic/theorem proving. Knowledge representation, rules, frames, semantic networks. Planning/scheduling. Lisp programming language. prereq: [2041 or instr consent], grad student
CSCI 5551 - Introduction to Intelligent Robotic Systems
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Transformations, kinematics/inverse kinematics, dynamics, control. Sensing (robot vision, force control, tactile sensing), applications of sensor-based robot control, robot programming, mobile robotics, microrobotics. prereq: 2031 or 2033 or instr consent
EE 4389W - Introduction to Predictive Learning (WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Fall Odd Year
Empirical inference and statistical learning. Classical statistical framework, model complexity control, Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) theoretical framework, philosophical perspective. Nonlinear methods. New types of inference. Application studies. prereq: [3025, ECE student] or STAT 3022; computer programming or MATLAB or similar environment is recommended for ECE students
EE 5364 - Advanced Computer Architecture
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: CSci 5204/EE 5364
Typically offered: Every Fall
Instruction set architecture, processor microarchitecture. Memory and I/O systems. Interactions between computer software and hardware. Methodologies of computer design. prereq: [[4363 or CSci 4203], CSE grad student] or dept consent
EE 5371 - Computer Systems Performance Measurement and Evaluation
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: EE 5371/5863
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Tools/techniques for analyzing computer hardware, software, system performance. Benchmark programs, measurement tools, performance metrics. Deterministic/probabilistic simulation techniques, random number generation/testing. Bottleneck analysis. prereq: [4363 or 5361 or CSci 4203 or 5201], [CSE grad student] or dept consent
EE 5393 - Circuits, Computation, and Biology
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Connections between digital circuit design and synthetic/computational biology. Probabilistic, discrete-event simulation. Timing analysis. Information-Theoretic Analysis. Feedback in digital circuits/genetic regulatory systems. Synthesizing stochastic logic and probabilistic biochemistry.
EE 5351 - Applied Parallel Programming
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Parallel programming/architecture. Application development for many-core processors. Computational thinking, types of parallelism, programming models, mapping computations effectively to parallel hardware, efficient data structures, paradigms for efficient parallel algorithms, application case studies. prereq: [4363 or equivalent], programming experience (C/C++ preferred)
EE 4231 - Linear Control Systems: Designed by Input/Output Methods
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: AEM 4321/EE 4231
Typically offered: Every Fall
Modeling, characteristics, performance of feedback control systems. Stability, root locus, frequency response methods. Digital implementation, hardware considerations. prereq: [3015, [upper div CSE or grad student in CSE major]] or instr consent
EE 4233 - State Space Control System Design
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
State space models, performance evaluation, numerical issues for feedback control. Stability, state estimation, quadratic performance. Implementation, computational issues. prereq: [3015, upper div CSE] or instr consent
EE 4341 - Embedded System Design
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Microcontroller interfacing for embedded system design. Exception handling/interrupts. Memory Interfacing. Parallel/serial input/output methods. System Buses and protocols. Serial Buses and component interfaces. Microcontroller Networks. Real-Time Operating Systems. Integral lab. prereq: 2301, 2361, upper div CSE
CSCI 4511W - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: CSci 4511W/CSci 5511
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Problem solving, search, inference techniques. Knowledge representation. Planning. Machine learning. Robotics. Lisp programming language. Cannot be taken for grad CSci credit. prereq: 2041 or instr consent
CSCI 5143 - Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Real-time systems that require timely response by computer to external stimulus. Embedded systems in which computer is part of machine. Increasing importance of these systems in commercial products. How to control robots and video game consoles. Lecture, informal lab. prereq: [4061 or instr consent], experience with C language
CSCI 5551 - Introduction to Intelligent Robotic Systems
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Transformations, kinematics/inverse kinematics, dynamics, control. Sensing (robot vision, force control, tactile sensing), applications of sensor-based robot control, robot programming, mobile robotics, microrobotics. prereq: 2031 or 2033 or instr consent
CSCI 5552 - Sensing and Estimation in Robotics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Bayesian estimation, maximum likelihood estimation, Kalman filtering, particle filtering. Sensor modeling and fusion. Mobile robot motion estimation (odometry, inertial,laser scan matching, vision-based) and path planning. Map representations, landmark-based localization, Markov localization, simultaneous localization/mapping (SLAM), multi-robot localization/mapping. prereq: [5551, Stat 3021] or instr consent
CSCI 5511 - Artificial Intelligence I
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: CSci 4511W/CSci 5511
Prerequisites: [2041 or #], grad student
Typically offered: Every Fall
Introduction to AI. Problem solving, search, inference techniques. Logic/theorem proving. Knowledge representation, rules, frames, semantic networks. Planning/scheduling. Lisp programming language. prereq: [2041 or instr consent], grad student
CSCI 5512 - Artificial Intelligence II
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: CSci 5512W/CSci 5512
Typically offered: Every Spring
Uncertainty in artificial intelligence. Probability as a model of uncertainty, methods for reasoning/learning under uncertainty, utility theory, decision-theoretic methods. prereq: [STAT 3021, 4041] or instr consent
CSCI 5521 - Machine Learning Fundamentals
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Problems of pattern recognition, feature selection, measurement techniques. Statistical decision theory, nonstatistical techniques. Automatic feature selection/data clustering. Syntactic pattern recognition. Mathematical pattern recognition/artificial intelligence. Prereq: [2031 or 2033], STAT 3021, and knowledge of partial derivatives
CSCI 5561 - Computer Vision
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Issues in perspective transformations, edge detection, image filtering, image segmentation, and feature tracking. Complex problems in shape recovery, stereo, active vision, autonomous navigation, shadows, and physics-based vision. Applications. prereq: CSci 5511, 5521, or instructor consent.
CSCI 5525 - Machine Learning: Analysis and Methods
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
Models of learning. Supervised algorithms such as perceptrons, logistic regression, and large margin methods (SVMs, boosting). Hypothesis evaluation. Learning theory. Online algorithms such as winnow and weighted majority. Unsupervised algorithms, dimensionality reduction, spectral methods. Graphical models. prereq: Grad student or instr consent
EE 4301 - Digital Design With Programmable Logic
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
Introduction to system design/simulation. Design using Verilog code/synthesis. Emulation using Verilog code. prereq: 2301, [1301 or CSCI 1113 or CSCI 1901]
EE 5301 - VLSI Design Automation I
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Basic graph/numerical algorithms. Algorithms for logic/high-level synthesis. Simulation algorithms at logic/circuit level. Physical-design algorithms. prereq: [2301, CSE grad student] or dept consent
EE 5302 - VLSI Design Automation II
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Basic algorithms, computational complexity. High-level synthesis. Test generation. Power estimation. Timing optimization. Current topics. prereq: [5301, CSE grad student] or dept consent
EE 5323 - VLSI Design I
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Combinational static CMOS circuits. Transmission gate networks. Clocking strategies, sequential circuits. CMOS process flows, design rules, structured layout techniques. Dynamic circuits, including Domino CMOS and DCVS. Performance analysis, design optimization, device sizing. prereq: [2301, 3115, CSE grad student] or dept consent
EE 5324 - VLSI Design II
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
CMOS arithmetic logic units, high-speed carry chains, fast CMOS multipliers. High-speed performance parallel shifters. CMOS memory cells, array structures, read/write circuits. Design for testability, including scan design and built-in self test. VLSI case studies. prereq: [5323, CSE grad student] or dept consent
EE 5327 - VLSI Design Laboratory
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Complete design of an integrated circuit. Designs evaluated by computer simulation. prereq: [4301, [5323 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 5323], CSE grad student] or dept consent
EE 5329 - VLSI Digital Signal Processing Systems
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Programmable architectures for signal/media processing. Data-flow representation. Architecture transformations. Low-power design. Architectures for two's complement/redundant representation, carry-save, and canonic signed digit. Scheduling/allocation for high-level synthesis. prereq: [[5323 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 5323], CSE grad student] or dept consent
EE 5333 - Analog Integrated Circuit Design
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Fundamental circuits for analog signal processing. Design issues associated with MOS/BJT devices. Design/testing of circuits. Selected topics (e.g., modeling of basic IC components, design of operational amplifier or comparator or analog sampled-data circuit filter). prereq: [3115, CSE grad student] or dept consent
EE 4501 - Communications Systems
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Systems for transmission/reception of digital/analog information. Characteristics/design of wired/wireless communication systems. Baseband, digital, and carrier-based techniques. Modulation. Coding. Electronic noise and its effects on design/performance. prereq: 3025
CSCI 4131 - Internet Programming
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: CSci 4131/CSci 5131
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Issues in internet programming. Internet history, architecture/protocols, network programming, Web architecture. Client-server architectures and protocols. Client-side programming, server-side programming, dynamic HTML, Java programming, object-oriented architecture/design, distributed object computing, Web applications. prereq: 4061, 4211 recommended, cannot be taken for grad CSci cr
CSCI 4211 - Introduction to Computer Networks
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: CSci 4211/CSci 5211/INET 4002
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Concepts, principles, protocols, and applications of computer networks. Layered network architectures, data link protocols, local area networks, routing, transport, network programming interfaces, networked applications. Examples from Ethernet, Token Ring, TCP/IP, HTTP, WWW. prereq: 4061 or instr consent; basic knowledge of [computer architecture, operating systems] recommended, cannot be taken for grad CSci cr
CSCI 5211 - Data Communications and Computer Networks
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: CSci 4211/CSci 5211/INET 4002
Typically offered: Every Fall
Concepts, principles, protocols, and applications of computer networks. Layered network architectures, data link protocols, local area networks, network layer/routing protocols, transport, congestion/flow control, emerging high-speed networks, network programming interfaces, networked applications. Case studies using Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, TCP/IP, ATM, Email, HTTP, and WWW. prereq: [4061 or instr consent], basic knowledge of [computer architecture, operating systems, probability], grad student
CSCI 5221 - Foundations of Advanced Networking
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Spring Even Year
Design principles, protocol mechanisms. Network algorithmics, implementation techniques. Advanced network architectures, state-of-art/emerging networking technologies/applications, network modeling. Simulation, experiments. prereq: 4211 or 5211 or equiv; intro course in computer networks recommended
EE 5583 - Error Control Coding
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Error-correcting codes. Concepts, properties, polynomial representation. BCH, Golay, Reed-Muller/Reed-Solomon codes. Convolutional codes. Iterative codes. prereq: [[3025, Math 2373] or equiv], [CSE grad student or dept consent]
CSCI 5271 - Introduction to Computer Security
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Concepts of computer, network, and information security. Risk analysis, authentication, access control, security evaluation, audit trails, cryptography, network/database/application security, viruses, firewalls. prereq: 4061 or 5103 or equiv or instr consent
CSCI 4707 - Practice of Database Systems
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: CSci 4707/CSci 5707/INET 4707
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Concepts, conceptual data models, case studies, common data manipulation languages, logical data models, database design, facilities for database security/integrity, applications. prereq: 4041 or instr consent
CSCI 5103 - Operating Systems
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Conceptual foundation of operating system designs and implementations. Relationships between operating system structures and machine architectures. UNIX implementation mechanisms as examples. prereq: 4061 or instr consent
CSCI 5105 - Introduction to Distributed Systems
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Distributed system design and implementation. Distributed communication and synchronization, data replication and consistency, distributed file systems, fault tolerance, and distributed scheduling. prereq: [5103 or equiv] or instr consent
CSCI 5106 - Programming Languages
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Design and implementation of high-level languages. Course has two parts: (1) language design principles, concepts, constructs; (2) language paradigms, applications. Note: course does not teach how to program in specific languages. prereq: 4011 or instr consent
CSCI 5115 - User Interface Design, Implementation and Evaluation
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Theory, design, programming, and evaluation of interactive application interfaces. Human capabilities and limitations, interface design and engineering, prototyping and interface construction, interface evaluation, and topics such as data visualization and World Wide Web. Course is built around a group project. prereq: 4041 or instr consent
CSCI 5161 - Introduction to Compilers
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Techniques for translating modern programming languages to intermediate forms or machine-executable instructions/their organization into compiler. Lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, data flow analysis, code generation. Compiler project for prototypical language. prereq: [2021, 5106] or instr consent
CSCI 5708 - Architecture and Implementation of Database Management Systems
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Techniques in commercial/research-oriented database systems. Catalogs. Physical storage techniques. Query processing/optimization. Transaction management. Mechanisms for concurrency control, disaster recovery, distribution, security, integrity, extended data types, triggers, and rules. prereq: 4041 or 4707 or 5707 or instr. consent
CSCI 5801 - Software Engineering I
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites: 2041 or #
Typically offered: Every Fall
Advanced introduction to software engineering. Software life cycle, development models, software requirements analysis, software design, coding, maintenance. prereq: 2041 or instr consent
CSCI 5802 - Software Engineering II
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Introduction to software testing, software maturity models, cost specification models, bug estimation, software reliability models, software complexity, quality control, and experience report. Student groups specify, design, implement, and test partial software systems. Application of general software development methods and principles from 5801. prereq: 5801 or instr consent
CSCI 4011 - Formal Languages and Automata Theory
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Logical/mathematical foundations of computer science. Formal languages, their correspondence to machine models. Lexical analysis, string matching, parsing. Decidability, undecidability, limits of computability. Computational complexity. prereq: 2041 or instr consent
CSCI 5271 - Introduction to Computer Security
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Concepts of computer, network, and information security. Risk analysis, authentication, access control, security evaluation, audit trails, cryptography, network/database/application security, viruses, firewalls. prereq: 4061 or 5103 or equiv or instr consent
CSCI 5421 - Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Fundamental paradigms of algorithm and data structure design. Divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, greedy method, graph algorithms, amortization, priority queues and variants, search structures, disjoint-set structures. Theoretical underpinnings. Examples from various problem domains. prereq: 4041 or instr consent
CSCI 5607 - Fundamentals of Computer Graphics 1
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Fundamental algorithms in computer graphics. Emphasizes programming projects in C/C++. Scan conversion, hidden surface removal, geometrical transformations, projection, illumination/shading, parametric cubic curves, texture mapping, antialising, ray tracing. Developing graphics software, graphics research. prereq: concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 2033, concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 3081
CSCI 5707 - Principles of Database Systems
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: CSci 4707/CSci 5707/INET 4707
Typically offered: Every Fall
Concepts, database architecture, alternative conceptual data models, foundations of data manipulation/analysis, logical data models, database designs, models of database security/integrity, current trends. prereq: [4041 or instr consent], grad student
CSCI 5609 - Visualization
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
Fundamental theory/practice in data visualization. Programming applications. Perceptual issues in effective data representation, multivariate visualization, information visualization, vector field/volume visualization. prereq: [1913, 4041] or equiv or instr consent
CSCI 5302 - Analysis of Numerical Algorithms
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Additional topics in numerical analysis. Interpolation, approximation, extrapolation, numerical integration/differentiation, numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations. Introduction to optimization techniques. prereq: 2031 or 2033 or instr consent
CSCI 5304 - Computational Aspects of Matrix Theory
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Perturbation theory for linear systems and eigenvalue problems. Direct/iterative solution of large linear systems. Matrix factorizations. Computation of eigenvalues/eigenvectors. Singular value decomposition. LAPACK/other software packages. Introduction to sparse matrix methods. prereq: 2031 or 2033 or instr consent
CSCI 5451 - Introduction to Parallel Computing: Architectures, Algorithms, and Programming
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Parallel architectures design, embeddings, routing. Examples of parallel computers. Fundamental communication operations. Performance metrics. Parallel algorithms for sorting. Matrix problems, graph problems, dynamic load balancing, types of parallelisms. Parallel programming paradigms. Message passing programming in MPI. Shared-address space programming in openMP or threads. prereq: 4041 or instr consent
CSCI 5461 - Functional Genomics, Systems Biology, and Bioinformatics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Computational methods for analyzing, integrating, and deriving predictions from genomic/proteomic data. Analyzing gene expression, proteomic data, and protein-protein interaction networks. Protein/gene function prediction, Integrating diverse data, visualizing genomic datasets. prereq: 3003 or 4041 or instr consent
CSCI 5481 - Computational Techniques for Genomics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Techniques to analyze biological data generated by genome sequencing, proteomics, cell-wide measurements of gene expression changes. Algorithms for single/multiple sequence alignments/assembly. Search algorithms for sequence databases, phylogenetic tree construction algorithms. Algorithms for gene/promoter and protein structure prediction. Data mining for micro array expression analysis. Reverse engineering of regulatory networks. prereq: 4041 or instr consent
CSCI 5523 - Introduction to Data Mining
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Data pre-processing techniques, data types, similarity measures, data visualization/exploration. Predictive models (e.g., decision trees, SVM, Bayes, K-nearest neighbors, bagging, boosting). Model evaluation techniques, Clustering (hierarchical, partitional, density-based), association analysis, anomaly detection. Case studies from areas such as earth science, the Web, network intrusion, and genomics. Hands-on projects. prereq: 4041 or equiv or instr consent
AEM 2011 - Statics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Force/moment vectors, resultants. Principles of statics and free-body diagrams. Applications to simple trusses, frames, and machines. Distributed loads. Internal forces in beams. Properties of areas, second moments. Laws of friction. prereq: PHYS 1301W, [concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in Math 2374 or equiv], CSE
AEM 2012 - Dynamics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Kinematics/kinetics of particles. Newton's laws. Energy/momentum methods. Systems of particles. Kinematics/kinetics of planar motions of rigid bodies. Plane motion of rigid bodies. Mechanical vibrations. prereq: 2011, [concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in Math 2373 or equiv], CSE student
AEM 2021 - Statics and Dynamics
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Force/moment vectors, resultants. Principles of statics and free-body diagrams. Applications to simple trusses, frames, and machines. Properties of areas, second moments. Internal forces in beams. Laws of friction. Principles of particle dynamics. Mechanical systems and rigid-body dynamics. Kinematics/dynamics of plane systems. Energy/momentum of 2-D bodies/systems. prereq: Phys 1301W, [concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in Math 2374 or equiv], CSE
AEM 4601 - Instrumentation Laboratory
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Introduction to lab instrumentation. Computerized data acquisition. Statistical analysis of data. Time series data, spectral analysis. Transducers for measurement of solid, fluid, and dynamical quantities. Design of experiments. prereq: CSci 1113, EE 3005, EE 3006, [upper div BAEM]
BBE 3013 - Engineering Principles of Molecular and Cellular Processes
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Applied engineering principles in biological processes. Classification of microbes of industrial importance. Parameters for cellular control. Modeling of cell growth/metabolism, enzymatic catalysis, bioreactor design, product recovery operations design. Case studies. prereq: BIOL 1009 or BIOL 2003; and CHEM 1062/CHEM 1066 or equivalent or CHEM 1082; MATH 1372 or MATH 1282
BIOC 3021 - Biochemistry
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: BioC 3021/BioC 3022/BioC 4331/
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Fundamentals of biochemistry. Structure/function of nucleic acids, proteins, lipids, carbohydrates. Enzymes. Metabolism. DNA replication and repair, transcription, protein synthesis. Recommended prerequisites: Introductory biology (BIOL 1009 or BIOL 2003 or equivalent), organic chemistry (CHEM 2301 or CHEM 2081/2085 or equivalent). Note: CBS students should take BIOC 3022 not 3021.
BMEN 5401 - Advanced Biomedical Imaging
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Functional biomedical imaging modalities. Principles/applications of technologies that offer high spatial/temporal resolution. Bioelectromagnetic and magnetic resonance imaging. Other modalities. prereq: CSE upper div or grad student or instr consent
CEGE 3502 - Fluid Mechanics
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Fluid statics/dynamics. Kinematics of fluid flow, equations of motion, pressure-velocity relationships, viscous effects, boundary layers. Momentum/energy equations. Lift/drag. Flow in pipes and pipe systems. Hydraulic machinery. Fluid measurements. prereq: [AEM 2012 or AEM 3031], Math 2373, CEGE 3101
CHEM 2301 - Organic Chemistry I
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Chem 2301/Chem 2331H
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Organic compounds, constitutions, configurations, conformations, reactions. Molecular structure. Chemical reactivity/properties. Spectroscopic characterization of organic molecules. prereq: C- or better in 1062/1066 or 1072H/1076H
CHEM 2302 - Organic Chemistry II
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Chem 2302/Chem 2332HChem 2304
Prerequisites: Grade of at least C- in 2301
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Reactions, synthesis, and spectroscopic characterization of organic compounds, organic polymers, and biologically important classes of organic compounds such as lipids, carbohydrates, amino acids, peptides, proteins, and nucleic acids. prereq: Grade of at least C- in 2301
CHEM 2311 - Organic Lab
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Chem 2311/Chem 2312H/2312
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Laboratory techniques in synthesis, purification and characterization of organic compounds with an emphasis on green chemistry methodologies. prereq: Grade of at least C- in [2302] or [concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 2302
IE 5441 - Financial Decision Making
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Cash flow streams, interest rates, fixed income securities. Evaluating investment alternatives, capital budgeting, dynamic cash flow process. Mean-variance portfolio selection, Capital Asset Pricing Model, utility maximization, risk aversion. Derivative securities, asset dynamics, basic option pricing theory. prereq: CSE upper div or grad student
IE 5511 - Human Factors and Work Analysis
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: HumF 5211/IE 5511/ME 5211
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Human factors engineering (ergonomics), methods engineering, and work measurement. Human-machine interface: displays, controls, instrument layout, and supervisory control. Anthropometry, work physiology and biomechanics. Work environmental factors: noise, illumination, toxicology. Methods engineering, including operations analysis, motion study, and time standards. prereq: Upper div CSE or grad student
IE 5513 - Engineering Safety
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Occupational, health, and product safety. Standards, laws, and regulations. Hazards and their engineering control, including general principles, tools and machines, mechanics and structures, electrical safety, materials handling, fire safety, and chemicals. Human behavior and safety, procedures and training, warnings and instructions. prereq: Upper div CSE or grad student
IE 5522 - Quality Engineering and Reliability
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: IE 3522/IE 5522
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Quality engineering/management, economics of quality, statistical process control design of experiments, reliability, maintainability, availability. prereq: [4521 or equiv], [upper div or grad student or CNR]
IE 5531 - Engineering Optimization I
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Linear programming, simplex method, duality theory, sensitivity analysis, interior point methods, integer programming, branch/bound/dynamic programming. Emphasizes applications in production/logistics, including resource allocation, transportation, facility location, networks/flows, scheduling, production planning. prereq: Upper div or grad student or CNR
IE 5541 - Project Management
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: IE 4541/IE 5541
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Introduction to engineering project management. Analytical methods of selecting, organizing, budgeting, scheduling, and controlling projects, including risk management, team leadership, and program management. prereq: Upper div or grad student
IE 5551 - Production and Inventory Systems
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Inventory control, supply chain management, demand forecasting, capacity planning, aggregate production and material requirement planning, operations scheduling, and shop floor control. Quantitative models used to support decisions. Implications of emerging information technologies and of electronic commerce for supply chain management and factory operation. prereq: CNR or upper div or grad student
IE 5553 - Simulation
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: IE 3553/IE 5553
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Discrete event simulation. Using integrated simulation/animation environment to create, analyze, and evaluate realistic models for various industry settings, including manufacturing/service operations and systems engineering. Experimental design for simulation. Selecting input distributions, evaluating simulation output. prereq: Upper div or grad student; familiarity with probability/statistics recommended
MATH 3283W - Sequences, Series, and Foundations: Writing Intensive (WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Math 2283/3283W
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Introduction to reasoning used in advanced mathematics courses. Logic, mathematical induction, real number system, general/monotone/recursively defined sequences, convergence of infinite series/sequences, Taylor's series, power series with applications to differential equations, Newton's method. Writing-intensive component. prereq: [concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 2243 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 2263 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 2373 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 2374] w/grade of at least C-
MATS 3011 - Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Builds progressively from electrons to atoms to bonding to crystal structures. Defects, X-ray diffraction, phase diagrams. Microstructure as basis for understanding mechanical/electrical properties. Metals, polymers, ceramics, semiconductors, composites. prereq: CHEM 1061, CHEM 1065, [MATH 1272 or MATH 1372], PHYS 1302, CSE student
MATS 3012 - Metals and Alloys
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Structure of metals/alloys. Crystal structure/defects (point defects, dislocations, grain boundaries). Microstructure. Properties of metals, especially mechanical properties. prereq: [3011, [MatS or ChEn upper div]] or instr consent
MATS 3013 - Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Materials
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Electronic/magnetic properties of solids. Simple band theory of solids. Free electron theory of conductivity/transport. Optical/dielectric response functions. Elementary theory of magnetism. Electronic devices. Superconductivity. Computer-based problems to illustrate applications. prereq: 3011, [CHEM 4502 or PHYS 2303], [upper div MatS or ChEn] or instr consent
MATS 3851W - Materials Properties Lab (WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Characterization of properties of engineering materials. Mechanical, electrical, optical, magnetic, and thermal properties. Relationship between properties and materials structure. Specimen preparation. Data collection and analysis, including statistical analysis. Laboratory notebook and report writing. prereq: [3801, 3013, MatS upper div] or dept consent
ME 3324 - Introduction to Thermal Science
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Thermodynamics, heat transfer. Thermal properties of substances. First/second laws of thermodynamics. Steady/unsteady heat conduction. Thermal resistance concept. Convection heat transfer. Radiative heat transfer between solid surfaces. Boiling/condensation heat transfer. prereq: Chem 1061, Chem 1065, Math 2243 or Math 2373, Phys 1301, [CSE student]
ME 3331 - Thermodynamics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: ME 3321/ME 3331
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Properties, equations of state, processes, cycles for reversible and irreversible thermodynamic systems. Modes of energy transfer. Equations for conservation of mass, energy, entropy balances. Application of thermodynamic principles to modern engineering systems. prereq: Chem 1061, Chem 1065, Phys 1301
ME 3332 - Fluid Mechanics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Mass, momentum conservation principles. Fluid statics, Bernoulli equation. Control volume analysis, dimensional analysis, internal and external viscous flow. Momentum and energy considerations. Introduction to boundary layers. prereq: Math 2243 or Math 2373, 3331
ME 3333 - Heat Transfer
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Mechanisms of heat transfer. Conduction, convection, radiation. Boundary layer analysis using momentum and energy equations. Applications such as fins, heat exchangers, electronics cooling, bioheat transfer, energy conversion technologies, phase change energy storage and boiling. prereq: 3332
PHSL 3061 - Principles of Physiology
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Phsl 3063/Phsl 3071
Typically offered: Every Fall
Human physiology with emphasis on quantitative aspects. Organ systems (circulation, respiration, gastrointestinal, renal, endocrine, muscle, peripheral and central nervous systems), cellular transport processes, and scaling in biology. prereq: 1 year college chem and physics and math through integral calculus
PHYS 2303 - Physics III: Physics of Matter
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Phys 2303/2403H/2503/2503H
Typically offered: Every Spring
Thermodynamics, mechanical/electromagnetic waves, optics, quantum theory. Applications of quantum nature of solids. prereq: 1302, [MATH 1272 or MATH 1372 or MATH 1572H], [MatSci or EE] student
PHYS 2503 - Physics III: Intro to Waves, Optics, and Special Relativity
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Phys 2303/2403H/2503/2503H
Typically offered: Every Fall
Third semester of introductory physics. Mechanical/electromagnetic waves, optics, special relativity. prereq: 1302W or equivalent
PHYS 2601 - Quantum Physics
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Introduction to quantum mechanics. Applications to atomic, molecular, condensed-matter, nuclear, elementary-particle, and statistical physics. Prereq: PHYS2503/2503H, Recommended Concurrent: Phys 3041
PHYS 4101 - Quantum Mechanics
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Mathematical techniques of quantum mechanics. Schrodinger Equation and simple applications. General structure of wave mechanics. Operator methods, perturbation theory, radiation from atoms. Prereq: PHYS 3041, PHYS 2601
PHYS 4201 - Statistical and Thermal Physics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Principles of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Selected applications such as kinetic theory, transport theory, and phase transitions. Prereq: PHYS 3041, PHYS 2201, PHYS 2601
STAT 5101 - Theory of Statistics I
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Logical development of probability, basic issues in statistics. Probability spaces. Random variables, their distributions and expected values. Law of large numbers, central limit theorem, generating functions, multivariate normal distribution. prereq: (MATH 2263 or MATH 2374 or MATH 2573H), (MATH 2142 or CSCI 2033 or MATH 2373 or MATH 2243)
STAT 5102 - Theory of Statistics II
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Sampling, sufficiency, estimation, test of hypotheses, size/power. Categorical data. Contingency tables. Linear models. Decision theory. prereq: [5101 or Math 5651 or instr consent]
BMEN 5101 - Advanced Bioelectricity and Instrumentation
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Instrumentation, computer systems, and processing requirements for clinical physiological signals. Electrode characteristics, signal processing, and interpretation of physiological events by ECG, EEG, and EMG. Measurement of respiration and blood volume/flow. prereq: [CSE upper div, grad student] or instructor consent
BMEN 5111 - Biomedical Ultrasound
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Introduction to biomedical ultrasound, including physics of ultrasound, transducer technology, medical ultrasound imaging, photoacoustic imaging, applications of non-linear acoustics, and high-intensity ultrasound. prereq: [[PHYS 1302 or equiv], [MATH 2374 or equiv]] or instr consent
BMEN 5151 - Introduction to BioMEMS and Medical Microdevices
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Design/microfabrication of sensors, actuators, drug delivery systems, microfluidic devices, and DNA/protein microarrays. Packaging, biocompatibility, ISO 10993 standards. Applications in medicine, research, and homeland security. prereq: CSE sr or grad student or medical student
BMEN 5421 - Introduction to Biomedical Optics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Biomedical optical imaging/sensing principles, laser-tissue interaction, detector design, noise analysis, interferometry, spectroscopy. Optical coherence tomography, polarization, birefringence, flow measurement, fluorescence, nonlinear microscopy. Tours of labs. prereq: CSE sr or grad student
IE 5111 - Systems Engineering I
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Overview of systems-level thinking/techniques in context of an integrated, design-oriented framework. Elements of systems engineering process, including lifecycle, concurrent, and global engineering. Framework for engineering large-scale, complex systems. How specific techniques fit into framework. prereq: CSE upper div or grad student
IE 5113 - Systems Engineering II
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Systems engineering thinking/techniques presented in 5111. Hands-on techniques applied to specific problems. Topics pertinent to effectiveness of design process. Practices and organizational/reward structure to support collaborative, globally distributed design team.
EE 4043W - Industrial Assignment II (WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: EE 4043W/IE 4043W/ME 4043W
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Solution of system design problems that require developing criteria, evaluating alternatives, and generating a preliminary design. Final report emphasizes design communication and describes design decision process, analysis, and final recommendations. prereq: 3041
MOT 4001 - Leadership, Professionalism and Business Basics for Engineers
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Elements of business, environment in which technology/business operate. Classes of 15 to 20 students.
MGMT 4080W - Applied Technology Entrepreneurship (WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Mgmt 4170/Mgmt 4177/Mgmt 5177
Typically offered: Every Spring
Team projects based on commercializable technologies or innovations. Teams present their ideas to investors and industry professionals. Students are encouraged to submit their business plans to Minnesota Cup.
ACCT 3001 - Strategic Management Accounting
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Acct 3001/IBus 3002
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Costing techniques, including activity-based costing. Applying costing methods to determine costs of products, services, and production processes. Use of costs in operating/strategic decisions. prereq: ACCT 2051 or 2050
FINA 3001 - Finance Fundamentals
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: ApEc 3501/Fina 3001/Fina 3001H
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
How competition for capital in Capital Markets establishes metrics and measures used to understand financial performance of the firm. The course introduces the finance view of the firm and the application of value creation principles to firm decision making. Course presents the centrality of cash flows, the theoretical foundations for Time Value of Money, decision tools for investment of capital, basic valuation of stocks and bonds, and the theoretical foundations for the impact of risk on the required return on investor capital. prereq: ACCT 2050 or ACCT 2051, SCO 2550 or BA 2551 or equivalent statistics course
MGMT 3001 - Fundamentals of Management
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course is about the foundational principles of management, encompassing disciplinary and topical boundaries. We will look at these principles from the perspective of how they guide action, specifically: planning, organizing, leading and controlling. By the end of the course, students will know the basics of how to set up organizations to be effective and innovative, and not just efficient. During the course, you will engage with the material in the course and understand how management frameworks can be used to choose the right internal structures and processes that can best react to your particular industry context and general business environment.
MKTG 3001 - Principles of Marketing
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Mktg 3001/Mktg 3001H
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Introduction to terms, concepts, and skills for analyzing marketing problems. Factors outside the organization affecting its product, pricing, promotion, and distribution decisions. Cases from actual organizations. prereq: ECON 1101 or ECON 1165
HRIR 3021 - Human Capital Management
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: HRIR 3021/HRIR 3021H/IBUS 3021
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course will focus on the people side of business. We will look at how, through managing and leading people, we can create an engaged, productive workforce in order to achieve organizational strategic objectives. The content of this course is complementary to any major or minor. Major topics in this course: - Managing people in an ethical, legal way that is aligned with corporate strategy and helps organizations reach their goals; - Successfully attracting, recruiting, and selecting talented people; - Creating interesting, engaging jobs and giving meaningful feedback in order to retain great employees; - Rewarding and motivating people through intrinsic and extrinsic methods to encourage the most effective and "right" kind of employee behaviors to create an engaged, productive workforce through people strategies and practices.
MGMT 3015 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: IBUS 3010/MGMT 3010/MGMT 3015
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Career paths, including new business start-ups, franchising, acquisitions (including family business succession), corporate venturing, and entre-preneurial services. Legal structures for new business formation. Aspects of business law/ethics.
SCO 3001 - Sustainable Supply Chain and Operations
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Sustainable Supply Chain and Operations Management focuses on the design and management of transformation processes to provide products and services to create value for the people, planet, and firm prosperity. On the one hand, supply chain and operations management involves the integration of activities and processes, to facilitate the flows of materials, services, finances, and information to convert inputs into the firms? primary products and services. Operational issues include the design of products and processes, the procurement of raw materials, the control of inventories, the maintenance of quality, the planning of human resources and facilities, and the delivery of products or services, so that customer expectations and needs are met. Operations also have significant interactions with other functional areas of the firm (e.g., finance, marketing, strategy, and accounting). Therefore, understanding the role of the operations function and its impact on the competitiveness of the firm from both tactical and strategic aspects is an important part of any manager's training. This course will introduce students to the fundamental concepts, operations practices, and models in both manufacturing- and service-oriented firms. The course will cover both quantitative and qualitative methods.
PA 3003 - Nonprofit and Public Financial Management
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Concepts/tools for project/budget planning. Program analysis. Interpreting financial reports. Identifying/resolving organizational performance issues. Case studies, real-world exercises. prereq: Jr or sr
PA 4101 - Nonprofit Management and Governance
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Managing/governing nonprofit/public organizations. Theories, concepts, real-world examples. Governance systems, strategic management practices, effect of different funding environments, management of multiple constituencies.
IDSC 3001 - Information Systems & Digital Transformation (TS)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Information technologies have transformed the way businesses operate and the way consumers interact with businesses. They have enabled organizations to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and reach new customers. Their impact goes beyond the business world and affects nearly every aspect of modern society. Along with the benefits they provide, technologies have created new problems around privacy, security, misinformation on social media, algorithmic bias, and potential stifling of competition and innovation. In today's digital age, it is crucial to develop an understanding of information technologies, their impact on business and society, and the challenges they pose for decision making in commercial firms, government agencies, and public policies. This course is designed to cover a broad range of information technology issues in order to prepare students for the knowledge intensive economy of the 21st century. Students will be exposed to not only the technical aspects of information technologies, but also the social, political, and economic factors that shape its development and use. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, videos, in-class exercises and talks by guest speakers, students will gain an in-depth understanding of how information technologies are shaping businesses and the society as a whole. Students will also develop critical thinking skills to analyze and evaluate the impact of technology on society. Topics include business strategy and disruptive technologies, enterprise systems such as those for Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management and Human Resource Management, electronic and mobile commerce, social media applications and their social impact, cloud computing, data analytics, IT privacy and security, artificial intelligence and its social impact.
ACCT 5101 - Intermediate Accounting I
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Valuation, measurement, reporting issues related to selected assets/liabilities of firm. Theory underlying accounting issues. Applying accounting principles. prereq: Grade of B- or better in Acct 2050/Acct 2051 OR passed the Acct pretest (z.umn.edu/Acct5101pretest); CSOM Major, MGMT minor, mgmt grad student
ACCT 5102 - Intermediate Accounting II
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Basic valuation problems encountered in financial reporting. Focuses on valuation of liabilities. Accounting for leases, pensions, and deferred taxes. Introduces consolidated financial statements. prereq: 5101[ mgmt or grad mgmt student]
ACCT 5201 - Intermediate Management Accounting
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
This course is an in-action course. The course explores the topic of management accounting in greater depth. The course expands introductory course material via special emphasis on decision making, problem solving skills and exploration of accounting's role within overall management. The course is an in-action class. We will have a project working on a business case from a firm as the final assessment for the course. prereq: 3001, acct or finance major
ACCT 5135 - Fundamentals of Federal Income Tax
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
U.S. federal system of taxation. Concepts of gross income, deductions, credits. Analysis of structure of Internal Revenue Code, its provisions with respect to specific areas of law. Interrelationships between legislative, judicial, and administrative authority. Methods, tools, and techniques to conduct tax research. prereq: [2050 and or 2051] or MBA 6030], [mgmt or grad mgmt student]
ACCT 5161 - Financial Statement Analysis
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Interpretation/analysis of financial statements. Introduces basic techniques of financial statement analysis and applies them in different settings (e.g., in investment/credit decisions). prereq: [5101]
ACCT 5181 - Consolidations and Advanced Reporting
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies: Acct 5180/Acct 6160
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring & Summer
Theory underlying preparation of consolidated financial statements, as well as mechanical computations needed to prepare statements. prereq: 5101, 5102 recommended, or MBA 6031 (equiv. is also MBA 6030 before course number change in Fall 2022). MBA/Mgmt Sci MBA students must register A/F grade base.
ACCT 5311 - International Accounting
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Causes/history of international differences in design of financial accounting/reporting systems, efforts to harmonize them into worldwide system. Role/impact of currency translation on financial statements. International Accounting Standards, conceptual framework. prereq: 5101; [5102 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 5102] recommended
BIOC 4331 - Biochemistry I: Structure, Catalysis, and Metabolism in Biological Systems
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: BioC 3021/BioC 3022/BioC 4331/
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Advanced survey of structure/catalysis, metabolism/bioenergetics. prereq: (BIOL 1009 or 2003 or equiv) AND (Chem 2302 or CHEM 2081/2085 or equiv)
BIOC 4332 - Biochemistry II: Molecular Mechanisms of Signal Transduction and Gene Expression
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Advanced survey of molecular biology. Mechanisms of gene action/biological regulation. prereq: BioC 4331 or Bioc 3201 or BioC 3022
BIOC 4025W - Laboratory in Biochemistry (WI)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Theory, principles, and use of fundamental techniques in modern biochemistry labs. prereq: 3021, 3022, or 4331 or equiv
ACCT 5102 - Intermediate Accounting II
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Basic valuation problems encountered in financial reporting. Focuses on valuation of liabilities. Accounting for leases, pensions, and deferred taxes. Introduces consolidated financial statements. prereq: 5101[ mgmt or grad mgmt student]
CSCI 4511W - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: CSci 4511W/CSci 5511
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Problem solving, search, inference techniques. Knowledge representation. Planning. Machine learning. Robotics. Lisp programming language. Cannot be taken for grad CSci credit. prereq: 2041 or instr consent
EE 4043W - Industrial Assignment II (WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: EE 4043W/IE 4043W/ME 4043W
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Solution of system design problems that require developing criteria, evaluating alternatives, and generating a preliminary design. Final report emphasizes design communication and describes design decision process, analysis, and final recommendations. prereq: 3041
EE 4389W - Introduction to Predictive Learning (WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Fall Odd Year
Empirical inference and statistical learning. Classical statistical framework, model complexity control, Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) theoretical framework, philosophical perspective. Nonlinear methods. New types of inference. Application studies. prereq: [3025, ECE student] or STAT 3022; computer programming or MATLAB or similar environment is recommended for ECE students
EE 4951W - Senior Design Project (WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Team participation in formulating/solving open-ended design problems. Oral/written presentations. prereq: 3015, 3115, 3102, attendance first day of class
EE 5657 - Physical Principles of Thin Film Technology
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Fabrication, characterization, and application of thin film and nanostructured materials and devices. Focuses on vacuum deposition. Materials science. Hands-on, team-based labs.
MATH 3283W - Sequences, Series, and Foundations: Writing Intensive (WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Math 2283/3283W
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Introduction to reasoning used in advanced mathematics courses. Logic, mathematical induction, real number system, general/monotone/recursively defined sequences, convergence of infinite series/sequences, Taylor's series, power series with applications to differential equations, Newton's method. Writing-intensive component. prereq: [concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 2243 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 2263 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 2373 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 2374] w/grade of at least C-
MATS 3851W - Materials Properties Lab (WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Characterization of properties of engineering materials. Mechanical, electrical, optical, magnetic, and thermal properties. Relationship between properties and materials structure. Specimen preparation. Data collection and analysis, including statistical analysis. Laboratory notebook and report writing. prereq: [3801, 3013, MatS upper div] or dept consent
MGMT 4080W - Applied Technology Entrepreneurship (WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Mgmt 4170/Mgmt 4177/Mgmt 5177
Typically offered: Every Spring
Team projects based on commercializable technologies or innovations. Teams present their ideas to investors and industry professionals. Students are encouraged to submit their business plans to Minnesota Cup.