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Faculty

Chair: Szeto

Coordinator for Computer Engineering: Marino

Professors: harris, f., Harris, J., Iosupovici, Marino, Panos

Offered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Courses in computer engineering.

Courses

All listed prerequisite courses for Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering courses must be satisfied with a grade of C- or better.

Prerequisite: Credit or concurrent registration in Mathematics 150.

Use of editors, compilers, and operating system services for file management and program development. Fundamentals of the C programming language. Problem solving with computers. Principles of program design and development. (Formerly numbered Electrical Engineering 160.)

C++ language: Classes, dynamic memory allocation, operator overloading, abstract data types, inheritance, polymorphism. Object-oriented design and programming. Data structures and algorithms: Stacks, lists, trees, searching, and sorting.

Modelling, analysis and design of digital systems, primarily at the Logic Design level. Combinational and sequential networks. (Formerly numbered Electrical Engineering 270.)

Organization and operation of computer hardware and software. Operating system shell and services. Program design and development. Input-output programming. Multi-module and mixed-language programming. Assembler and C language. (Formerly numbered Electrical Engineering 371.)

Fundamentals of C and C++ for programmers who are new to C. C and C++ data types, selection, iteration, functions, pointers, arrays, and input/output. Classes, overloading, inheritance, and abstract data types in C++. Intended primarily as a bridge course for transfer students.

Object-oriented design and programming: Classes, methods messages, inheritance, polymorphism. Data structures and algorithms using C++: Strings, lists, stacks, queues, trees, searching, sorting, hash tables, container classes. Software engineering: Life-cycle models, testing, development phases.

Prerequisites: Computer Engineering 260 and 271.

Graphical user interface programming: Dialog boxes, menus, toolbars, status bars, fonts, icons, bitmaps. Event-driven programming: Processes, events message processing, timers, on-idle processing, multithreaded programming. C++ windows class libraries: Integrated development environments, application framework, document view architecture. Visual programming.

Prerequisite: Computer Engineering 271.

Embedded system architecture; IO programming using parallel ports, serial ports, timers, and D/A and A/D converters; interrupts and real-time programming; program development and debugging tools; C language and assembler. (Formerly numbered Electrical Engineering 375.)

Design of digital electronic systems using commercially available high-speed digital devices and circuits. (Formerly numbered Electrical Engineering 470.)

Prerequisites: Electrical Engineering 330L and credit or concurrent registration in Computer Engineering 470.

Hands-on experience in characterization and application of standard digital integrated circuit devices. (Formerly numbered Electrical Engineering 470L.)

Bus design, memory design, interrupt structure, and input/output for microprocessor-based systems. (Formerly numbered Electrical Engineering 475.)

Prerequisite: Completion of three of the following courses with a grade of C or better in each: Computer Engineering 375, 475, 560, 572, 577, Electrical Engineering 556.

Supervised team design projects. Each team completes a single design project in the two-semester sequence. Written and oral reports.

Modern developments in computer engineering. See Class Schedule for specific content. Maximum credit nine units for any combination of Computer Engineering 496 and 596 applicable to a bachelor's degree.

Individual study. Maximum credit six units.

Prerequisites: Computer Engineering 271 and Electrical Engineering 410.

Wide area and local area networks. Multi-layered protocol models, telephone systems, modems, and network applications. (Formerly numbered Electrical Engineering 560.)

Design of digital integrated circuits based on CMOS technology; characterization of field effect transistors, transistor level design and simulation of logic gates and subsystems; chip layout, design rules, introduction to processing; ALU architecture. (Formerly numbered Electrical Engineering 572.)

C++ language: classes, overloading, inheritance, polymorphism. Graphical user interface and event-driven programming. Foundations classes and application framework. Document-view architecture. Audio and video programming. Team projects. (Formerly numbered Electrical Engineering 577.)

Laboratory to accompany Computer Engineering 577; see course description for Computer Engineering 577. (Formerly numbered Electrical Engineering 577L.)

Modern developments in computer engineering. See Class Schedule for specific content. Maximum credit of nine units for any combination of Computer Engineering 496 and 596 applicable to a bachelor's degree. Maximum credit of six units of Computer Engineering 596 applicable to a 30-unit master's degree.

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