Undergraduate Catalog, Academic Year 2011 - Sirindhorn ...

Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology
Undergraduate Catalog 2011
to obtain feasible solutions. This involves establishment
of initial contacts, project proposal development,
preliminary data collection, data analysis, verification of
the results, and practical implementation. A
presentation of the project and the submission of a
comprehensive report are due at the end of the
semester.
CHS 485 Special Study in Chemical 3(3-0-6)
Engineering I
Prerequisite: Consent of Advisor and Head of School
An in-depth study of a topic in the field of chemical
engineering.
CHS 486 Special Study in Chemical 3(3-0-6)
Engineering II
Prerequisite: Consent of Advisor and Head of School
An in-depth study of a topic in the field of chemical
engineering. Topic covered is different from CHS 485.
CHS 487 Chemical Engineering Extended 6(0-40-0)
Training
Prerequisite: Senior standing
Students are provided with on-the-job training at
selected modern industrial or service facilities for an
extended period of at least 17 weeks. The purpose of
the course is to allow the students opportunities to
observe how chemical engineers function, to learn how
to collaborate with co-workers, and to develop personal
and professional responsibility. Students must submit a
report at the end of the training period.
CSS 221 Computer Graphics and Applications 3(2-3-4)
Prerequisite: None
Representation and manipulation of graphic data.
Representation and transformations of two-dimensional
space, three-dimensional space. Illumination and shading
modes. Visualizing and analyzing numerical data
associated with scientific, business, and/or entertainment
applications. Methods of creating, storing,
manipulating, presenting and animating two and three
dimensional graphical objects. Elements of image
processing. Programming computer graphics with
OpenGL or similar library.
CSS 223 Principles of Programming 3(3-0-6)
Languages
Prerequisite: ITS 100 or consent of Head of School
Style of conventional programming languages. Language
evaluation criteria. Influences on language design.
Lexical analysis. Syntax analysis. Semantic considerations.
Study the concepts of conventional programming
language, e.g., Pascal, Fortran, Cobol, Lisp, C.
CSS 224 Computer Architectures 3(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: ECS 371 or consent of Head of School
Computer evolution. Conventional computer
architectures. CPU and ALU structures and design.
Instruction sets. Hardwired and microprogrammed
control. Pipelining. Array and vector processors.
Multiprocessor systems. Memory organizations. Cache
memory. I/O organizations.
CSS 225 Operating System 3(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: ITS 100 or consent of Head of School
Basic concepts of operating systems. Processes.
Interprocess communication and synchronization. Inputoutput.
File systems. Memory management.
CSS 300 Computer Science Training 0(0-0-0)
Prerequisite: Junior standing or
consent of Head of School
Practical training in private sectors or governmental
departments in the field of computer science not less
than 240 hours during summer vacation of the third year.
Students must submit a report at the end of the training
period. Satisfactory (S) or unsatisfactory (U) grade will
be given based on student’s performance, quality of the
report, and supervisor’s comments.
CSS 321 Theory of Computation 3(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: None
Automata, computability, and complexity, emphasizing
computability and computational complexity theory.
Regular and context-free languages. Decidable and
undecidable problems, reducibility, completeness
theory, recursive function theory. Finite automata and
regular languages. Push-down automata and context-free
languages. Turing machines and decidable (recursive)
languages.
CSS 322 Security and Cryptography 3(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: None
Principles of number theory and the practice of network
security and cryptographic algorithms. Topics include
primes, random numbers, modular arithmetic and
discrete logarithms, conventional or symmetric
encryption, and public key or asymmetric encryption,
key management, hash functions, digital signatures,
certificates and authentication protocols, electronic mail
security, web security and protocols for secure
electronic commerce, some applications, such as smart
cards, electronic voting, and some programming topics,
e.g., provable security.
CSS 323 Compiler Design 3(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: CSS 223 or consent of Head of School
Introduction to the compilation of programming
languages. Principles and practice of lexical and
syntactic analysis. Error analysis.
CSS 400 Project Development 1(0-3-0)
Prerequisite: Senior standing or
consent of Head of School
Practical projects or problems in Computer Science for
individual students or groups of students under
supervision of faculty members. Students are required to
submit and present the project proposal to their project
committee appointed by the school.
CSS 403 Senior Project 6(0-18-0)
Prerequisite: Senior standing or
consent of Head of School
Practical projects or problems in computer science for
individual student or group of students under supervision
of faculty members. Students are required to submit and
present the project report to their project committee
appointed by the school.
CSS 411 Software Process and Quality 3(3-0-6)
Assurance
Prerequisite: None
Process concepts, including themes and terminology,
process infrastructure (e.g. personnel, tools, training),
modelling and specification of software processes,
measurement and analysis of software processes,
software engineering process improvement, quality
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