Certificate Program

The graduate certificate program in CSE is designed to give graduate students the opportunity to document their educational achievement at the interface of engineering and computer science.

The CSE graduate certificate has three components: course work, design, and research. The certificate requires at least 18 semester hours of course work in engineering and computer science. The requirements include at least 15 hours in engineering or computer science electives. The 15 hours in engineering or computer science must be outside the student's major department and approved by the student's CSE advisor. The design component is satisfied by successful completion of CSCI/ENGR 6922: Computer Systems Engineering Design Project (3 hours). The research component is satisfied by having a computer systems engineering component in the thesis or dissertation.

Design is the heart of the practice of engineering and is what separates it from its sister disciplines. It is the engineering design component that unites engineering and computer science into computer systems engineering. With a large number of electives available, the student may tailor the program to meet his or her needs.

Required Courses
CSCI/ENGR 6922: Computer Systems Engineering Design Project (3) Prerequisites: POD.

Elective Courses
Choose at least 15 hours from the following. (Courses must be outside the student's major department. A minimum grade of a "C" is required in all certificate program course work).

• CSCI 6050: Software Engineering (4)
• CSCI 6140: Numerical Methods and Computing (4),
• CSCI 6210: Simulation and Modeling (4)
• CSCI 6350: global Information Systems (4)
• CSCI 6370: Database Management (4)
• CSCI 6470: Algorithms (4)
• CSCI 6490: Algorithms for Computational Biology (4)
• CSCI 6500: Programming Languages (4)
• CSCI 6550: Artificial Intelligence (3)
• CSCI 6570: Compilers (4)
• CSCI 6720: Computer Architecture & Organization (4)
• CSCI 6730: Operating Systems (4)
• CSCI 6760: Computer Networks Technology & Applications (4)
• CSCI 6810: Computer Graphics (4)
• CSCI 8060: Adv. Software Engineering (4)
• CSCI 8140: Parallel Processing & Computational Science (4)
• CSCI 8370: Adv. Database Systems (4)
• CSCI 8470: Adv. Algorithms (4)
• CSCI 8720: Adv. Computer Architecture (4)
• CSCI 8730: Software Systems for Parallel & Distributed Computing (4)
• CSCI 8750: Principles of VLSI Systems Design (4)
• CSCI 8770: Computer-Aided Design (4)
• CSCI 8810: Image Processing & Computer Graphics (4)
• CSCI 8820: Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (4)
• CSCI 8940: Computational Intelligence (4)

• ENGR 6220: Feedback Controls (3)
• ENGR 6230: Sensors & Transducers (3)
• ENGR 6250: Advanced Microcontrollers (3)
• ENGR 6280: Measurement Automation & Control (3)
• ENGR 6360: Adv. Topics in CAD/CAM (3)
• ENGR 6540: Applied Machine Vision (3)
• ENGR 8250: Adv. Control Systems (3)
• ENGR 8290: Adv. Instrumentation (3)
• ENGR 8930: System Simulation (3)
• ENGR 8940: Computational Intelligence (4)

Research Component
The research component is satisfied by a computer systems engineering element as part of the student's thesis or dissertation. Since this is an interdisciplinary program, the student must include at least one graduate faculty member from the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and the Department of Computer Science on her or his graduate committee.

Additional Requirements
The engineering design component consists of a 3-hour engineering physics design course (ENGR/PHYS 6921: Engineering Physics Design Project). Design is the heart of the practice of engineering and is what separates it from its sister disciplines. The engineering design component unites engineering and physics into engineering physics.

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