INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COURSES
   
       
A)      Required core courses
 
 

Students must take two of the following six courses:

 

Website/Catalog Title

 

CS 411 Database Systems

 

CS 412 Intro Data Mining

 

CS 427 Software Engineering I

 

CS 428 Software Engineering II

 

CS 440 Intro Artificial Intelligence

 

CS 450 Intro to Numerical Analysis

 
B)      Approved Courses (Organized as IT Thematic Units)
 
 

Students must take two courses from the following list.

 

They are organized by thematic areas.

 
 

Course decisions are to be made jointly, and in close consultation with,

 

the student's advisor.

 
 

1. Numerical and Computational Methods

 

a. CEE 589 - Computational Geomechanics

 

b. CEE 598 NFM - Nonlinear Finite Element Method

 

c. CEE 598 CFM - Continuum Finite Element Method

 

d. CEE 598 AFM - Advanced Finite Elemenet Method

 

e. CEE 598 NL - Special Topics: Nonlinear Analysis in

 

Structural Mechanics

 

f. CEE 570/ CSE 551 - Finite Element Methods

 

g. CSE 517/ TAM 574 - Adv Finite Element Methods

 

h. ME 570 - Design and Analysis of Nonlinear Continua

 

i. CEE 598 BEM - Boundary Element Methods

 
  2. .Modeling and Simulation
 

a. CEE 534 / CSE 564  Surface Water Quality Modeling

 

b. CEE 557 / CSE 565 Groundwater Modeling

 

c. CEE 598 TS - Special Topics: Traffic Simulation Models

 

d. ATMS 530 Global Atmospheric Modeling 

 

e. CEE 598 BEM Special Topics: Boundary Element Method

   
  3. Computational Fluid Mechanics
 

a. ATMS 502/ CS 505- Numerical Fluid Dynamics

 

b. TAM 570 Computational Fluid Mechanics

 

 

  4. GIS/Remote Sensing/Data Assimilation/Image Processing
 

a. CEE 450 Suface Hydrology

 

b. ATMS 411 Satellite Remote Sensing

 

c. CEE 598 SH Special Topics: Stochastic Hydrology 

 

d. ECE 547 Topics in Image Processing 

 

e. ECE 558 Digital Imaging 

 

f. GEOG 479 Advanced Geographic Information Systems

 

g. UP 418 GIS for Planners

 

h. UP 519 Advanced Applications of GIS

 
 
  5. Data Mining/Knowledge Discovery
 

a. CS 512 Data Mining Principles

 

b. STAT 525 - Computational Statistics

 
  6. Stochastic Methods, Risk and Reliability
 

a. CEE 491 Decision and Risk Analysis 

 

b. CEE 498 BSM Special Topics: Environmental Risk Assessment

 

and Management

 

c. CEE 535 Systems II

 

d. NRES 501 Special Problems

 

e. STAT 428 Statistical Computing

 

f. STAT 578 Topics in Statistics

 

g. STAT 525 Computational Statistics 

 
h. CEE 574 Probabilistic Loads and Design
 
  7. Optimization 
 

a. CEE 535 Environmental Systems II

 

b. CEE 598 OS Special Topics: Optimization Methods

 

for Engineering Design

 

c. GE 530/CEE 536 Multiattribute Decision Analysis 

 

d. IE 410 Stochastic Processes and Applications 

 

e. IE 411 Optimization of Large Linear Systems

 

f. IE 510 Applied Non-Linear Programming

 
  8. Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning
 

a. CEE 598 AID Special Topics: Artificial Intelligence in Design

 

b. CS 440 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence 

 

c. CS 542 Artificial Neural Networks 

 

d. GE 531 Genetic Algorithms Methods

 

e. CS 446 Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition

 
  9. Programming, and  Engineering Software & Database Development
 

a. CS 400/ CSE 400 Data Structures, Non-CS Majors

 

b. CSE 402/ CS 420/ ECE 492 - Introduction to Parallel

 

Programming

 

c. CS 411 Database Systems

 

d. CSE 426/ CS 427 – Software Engineering I

   
  10. Information Management and Decision Systems
 

a. CEE 498 APO - Special Topics: Airline Planning and Operations

 

b. CEE 598 MI Special Topics: Construction Management

 

Information Systems

 

c. BADM 432/ ACCY 432 - Introduction to Management Information

 

Systems

 
  11. System Architecture and Networking
 

a. CSE 422/ CS 433 - Computer System Organization

 

b. CSE 423/ CS 423 - Operating Systems Design

 

c. CSE 424/ CS 425/ ECE 428 - Distributed Systems

 

d. CSE 425/ CS 438/ ECE 438- Communication Networks

 

 

 
  12. Visualization
 

a.  CS 498 Special Topics in CS: Introduction to Virtual Reality

 

b. CS 414 Multimedia Systems 

 

c. CSE 427/ CS 418 - Computer Graphics

 

d. CSE 428/ CS 419 - Advanced Computer Graphics

 

e. IE 441/ AVI 441- Interactive Systems Modeling and Design

 

f. ECE 418 - Image and Video Processing