COLLEGE OF COMPUTING SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING

Division of Engineering: Civil Engineering

01-41               APC 2             CGN 4949    Co-op Work Experience
The course is being changed to allow students to register for a zero credit option for co-operative education if they continue in the program longer than three terms or do not need further elective credit.

Division of Engineering: Electrical Engineering

01-42               APC 2             EEL 4949                Co-op Work Experience
The course is being changed to allow students to register for a zero credit option for co-operative education if they continue in the program longer than three terms or do not need further elective credit.

Division of Engineering: Mechanical Engineering

01-43               APC 2             EML 4949                Co-op Work Experience
The course is being changed to allow students to register for a zero credit option for co-operative education if they continue in the program longer than three terms or do not need further elective credit.

Building Construction Management Department

01-44                   APC 3                                        BS:  Building Construction:  Building                                                                                 Construction Management Track
The Department is making changes to adjust the program to meet the latest ACCE accreditation requirements and to fix the excess hours within the program. The internship course is being changed from 5-3 hours and a new course in Construction Computing is being proposed. APC2-Minors are also being submitted for the following courses: BCN 1210, BCN 3223, BCN 3224, BCN 3611, BCN 3762, BCN 4475, BCN 4708, BCN 4720, and BCN 4772. The students will benefit from the clarity in the prerequisites and simplified titles. The Department is making changes to adjust the program to meet the latest ACCE accreditation requirements and to fix the excess hours within the program. The faculty made changes to adjust the program to meet the latest ACCE accreditation requirements.

01-45            APC 1             BCN 3XXX               Intro to Construction Computing (3 cr hrs)
Prerequisites:  CGS 1100 (Computer Applications for Business) or
                      CGS 1570 (Microcomputer Applications).
Corequisites:  None
Study of application programs used in the construction industry. Areas of study include the Internet and World Wide Web, construction scheduling applications, construction estimating, construction drawing, land plotting via the Global Positioning System (GPS) and land planning via geographic information systems (GIS).  No new faculty or additional resources are required for this course.

01-46            APC 2              BCN 2405                 Construction Mechanics
The new course title (Introduction to Structures) more accurately reflects the content of the course. The course is being changed from 4 credits to 3 credits because of the addition of MAC 1147 Precalculus to the prerequisites for the major. Since Precalculus is reviewed during BCN 2405, the credit can be dropped with the addition of the new math prerequisite.

01-47            APC 2               BCN 3562                 Functional Systems in Buildings
A prerequisite is being added so the faculty may more effectively cover the course material without having to review from previous courses. The level is being changed from a 3xxx level to a 4xxx level to reflect the new sequencing of courses.

01-48            APC 2                BCN 4561C              Mechanical Systems in Buildings
A prerequisite is being added so the faculty may more effectively cover the course material without having to review from previous courses. The level is being changed from a 4XXX level to a 3XXX level to reflect the new sequencing of courses.

01-49             APC 2                BCN 4944                Construction Management Internship
The course is being lowered to 3 hours to accommodate a new course, BCN 3XXX: Construction Computing. The ACCE accreditation team felt the program was weak on computer software applications, and the additional course will remedy this deficiency.  Change to variable credit is necessary to accommodate students on programs of study prior to 2000-2001 who are required to do 5 or 12 hours of internship, depending on the year of the program of study. The amount of hours required for the internship has been lowered from 30 to 20.

Computer and Information Sciences

01-59             APC 1                 CAP 6XXX               Intelligent Systems (3 credit hours)
Prerequisite:  Permission of the Instructor
Corequisite:  None
The course may be repeated with the consent of the Department.  Each course offering examines an area concerned with intelligent systems chosen from among artificial intelligence, logic programming, language translation, vision, robotics, simulation, and neural networks.  No new faculty or additional resources are required for this course.

01-60            APC 1            CDA 6XXX             Distributed and Internet Systems (3 cr hrs)
Prerequisite:  CDA 5505 or equivalent.
Corequisite:   None
This course covers topics in distributed and Internet systems from among design issues; mobile and wireless systems; resource allocation; load balancing; security; reliability; file systems; performance evaluation and architectural enhancements to improve performance.  Case studies such as the distributed object architectures of CORBA and RMI are used to illustrate topics.  No new faculty or additional resources are required for this course.

01-61            APC 1            CIS 6XXX               Engineering of Software I (3 credit hours)
Prerequisite:  COP 3540 or COP 4534 or equivalent.
Corequisite:  None
Topics covered in this course include: methods, techniques, and practices associated with software development that go from elicitation of requirements to the analysis of both the problem and solution domains; formal methods, executable specifications, classical and object-oriented approaches, support tools, and quality assurance practices; team-oriented project using methods, techniques and practices learned.  No new faculty or additional resources are required for this course.

01-62            APC 1            CIS 6XXY                Engineering of Software II (3 credit hours)
Prerequisite:  CIS 6XXX (Engineering of Software I)
Corequisite:  None
Topics covered in this course include: the design of a software system using classical and object-oriented approaches; software architectures, frameworks, functional and object-oriented decomposition, prototyping, design and implementation of reviews and walkthroughs, GUI design and implementation, interoperability, support tools, and quality assurance practices; team-oriented project used methods, techniques and practices learned.  No new faculty or additional resources are required for this course.

01-63          APC 1        CIS 6XXZ           Software Quality Assurance and Testing (3 cr hrs)
Prerequisite:  CIS 6XXX (Engineering of Software I)
Corequisite:  None
Topics covered in this course include: the quality of the software product; techniques with the stages of verification and validation; reliability, correctness, testing methods, coverage measures, testing specialized applications, formal verification, testing management techniques and support tools; team-oriented project used methods, techniques and practices learned.  No new faculty or additional resources are required for this course.

01-64            APC 1            CIS 69XX            Software Engineering Practicum (3 cr hrs)
Prerequisite:  Software Engineering core [CIS 6101 (Software Processes and Metrics) and the new courses– CIS 6XXX (Engineering of Software I), CIS 6XXY (Engineering of Software II), and CIS 6XXZ (Software Quality Assurance and Testing)]
Corequisite:  None
This course involves a supervised team project, including field experience with real customers, to address a major software development effort that employs methods, techniques, and practices covered in the Software Engineering core.  No new faculty or additional resources are required for this course.

01-65            APC 1               COP 6XXX           Programming Language
                                                                             Design Paradigms (3 credit hours)
Prerequisite:  COP 5615 and COT 3210, or equivalent.
Corequisite:  None
Topics covered in this course include; operating system support features required by different programming paradigms; run time symbol tables and semantics; compiling vs. interpreting; binding and execution time requirements; storage management; subprogram control; implementation of inheritance; strong vs. weak data typing.  No new faculty or additional resources are required for this course.

01-66           APC 2                  CAP 6100              Human-Machine Interfacing
This request is for changes to the title (Interface Design and Implementation), prerequisites and description.

01-67           APC 2                   CDA 6011              Office Automation
This request is for changes to the title  (Web Engineering); description; prerequisites.

01-68           APC 2                   CDA 6506             Computer Network Architecture
This request is for changes to the title (Network Architecture & Client/Server Computing); description; prerequisites.

01-69           APC  2                   CIS 6101             Quantitative Techniques for Systems                                                                                 Analysis                           
This request is for changes to the title (Software Processes and Metrics); description; prerequisites.

01-70            APC 2                  COP 6711            Database Engineering and Administration
This request is for changes to the title (was Requirements Analysis and Database Design); description; prerequisites.

01-72            APC  2            COP 6735                 Developments in Database Structures
This request is for changes to the title (was Advanced Database); description; prerequisites.

01-73            APC 2              CAP 5606                Knowledge Engineering
This request is to terminate this course as a part of an overall restructuring of the MS Program in CIS.  The content of the course has been absorbed elsewhere in the restructured curriculum.

01-074         APC 2               COP 5725                Database Systems
This request is to terminate this course as a part of an overall restructuring of the MS Program in CIS.  The content of the course has been absorbed elsewhere in the restructured curriculum.

01-75           APC 2                COP 6680               Advanced Artificial Intelligence
This request is to terminate this course as a part of an overall restructuring of the MS Program in CIS.  The content of the course has been absorbed elsewhere in the restructured curriculum.

01-76           APC 2                COP 6106              Advanced Computer Architecture
This request is to terminate this course as a part of an overall restructuring of the MS Program in CIS.  The content of the course has been absorbed elsewhere in the restructured curriculum.

01-77          APC 2                 COP 6311             Logic Programming
This request is to terminate this course as a part of an overall restructuring of the MS Program in CIS.  The content of the course has been absorbed elsewhere in the restructured curriculum.

01-78          APC 2                 COP 6621              Compilers
This request is to terminate this course as a part of an overall restructuring of the MS Program in CIS.  The content of the course has been absorbed elsewhere in the restructured curriculum.

01-79          APC 2                 COP 6726               Database Administration
This request is to terminate this course as a part of an overall restructuring of the MS Program in CIS.  The content of the course has been absorbed elsewhere in the restructured curriculum.

01-80          APC 2                  COP 6330               Object-Oriented Modeling & Design
This request is to terminate this course as a part of an overall restructuring of the MS Program in CIS.  The content of the course has been absorbed elsewhere in the restructured curriculum.

01-81          APC 2                  COP 6570                     Software Tools
This request is to terminate this course as a part of an overall restructuring of the MS Program in CIS.  The content of the course has been absorbed elsewhere in the restructured curriculum.

01-82          APC 2                  COP 6602                      Software Systems
This request is to terminate this course as a part of an overall restructuring of the MS Program in CIS.  The content of the course has been absorbed elsewhere in the restructured curriculum.

01-88          APC 3                               MS:  CIS:  Software Engineering Track
New track in Software Engineering for the MS in CIS to reflect the development of this area as a viable subject for graduate study.  The curriculum follows recommendations made to the College in a 2000 Task Force report, and in conjunction with changes to existing tracks in Computer Science and in Information Systems is part of a streamlining of the graduate program for CIS.  The track structure is: (a) Software Engineering core requirement (12 hours of specified software engineering courses that reflect current practice); (b) Major requirement (9 hours from specified CIS coursework that relates to software engineering); (c) Practicum requirement (3 hours of supervised group project CIS 69xx: Software Engineering Practicum); (d) Electives (2-3 disciplinary courses, number depends on whether the thesis or professional option is selected); (e) Thesis option (6 credit thesis) or Professional option (4 credit project).  There is a net reduction in the overall number of 6000-level courses offered to support this track and the existing tracks in computer science and information systems.  No new resources are needed to implement the new track.

01-89                        APC 3                                MS:  CIS:  Computer Science Track
Modifications to the Computer Science track for the MS in CIS, which reflect evolutionary changes in the discipline during the past decade and which better, define the educational objectives for the track.  Additions: (a) Breadth requirement (0-12 hours from specified CIS coursework to fill out breadth in field); (b) Depth requirement (12 hours from specified CIS coursework to provide depth in 4 different areas of computer science); (c) Major requirement (restricted selection from specified CIS coursework; Breadth + Major = 12 hours).  Changes: general disciplinary electives reduced from 10-11 courses to 2-3 courses  (number depends on whether the thesis or professional option is selected; Thesis option (6 credit thesis) and Professional option (4 credit project) are unchanged).  No new resources are needed to implement the changes to this track.

01-90                        APC 3                                  MS:  CIS:  Information Systems Track
Modifications to the Information Systems track for the MS in CIS, which reflect evolutionary changes in the discipline during the past decade and which better, define the educational objectives for the track.  Additions: (a) Information Systems core requirement (12 hours of specified CIS coursework or equivalent); (b) Business core requirement (9 hours from specified Business coursework supporting the graduate e-commerce certificate program); (c) Major requirement (6-9 hours from specified CIS coursework, number depends on whether the thesis or professional option is selected).  Changes: general disciplinary electives reduced from 10-11 courses to 1 course (Thesis option (6 credit thesis) and Professional option (4 credit project) are unchanged).  No new resources are needed to implement the changes to this track.