POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY 2005-2007

COMPUTER ENGINEERING PROGRAM
encouraging faculty to work in industry
part-time or while on sabbatical. Where
possible, classroom work challenges
students to apply their knowledge to current
design situations.
Industry’s need for the systems
approach in engineering is also reflected
in the curriculum through senior projects
in areas such as control and robotics,
advanced hardware design, imaging and
embedded controllers. The economic
aspects of engineering are addressed by
allowing undergraduates to choose electives
such as macro/micro economics,
psychology and ethics. Cost evaluation
is required in the design projects for EG
1004 Introduction to Engineering
Design. Senior projects emphasize time
management and planning.
Exceptional undergraduate students
are given the opportunity for advanced
study in two programs: (1) the BS/MS
Honors Program, which requires students
to work on a research project
equivalent to 6 or 9 credits hours, and
(2) the summer junior research internship
program, which allows undergraduates
to work on research projects with
graduate students and their advisers.
Up-to-date information about program
requirements, course offerings,
senior project topics and research projects
is available online from the
Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at www.ece.poly.edu.
UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE
REQUIREMENTS
The BS program in Computer
Engineering gives students broad-based
preparation for a career in computer
engineering in any of its specialization
and readies them for immediate employment
in industry, business and government,
or for further graduate education.
The program is accredited by the
Accreditation Board for Engineering
and Technology (ABET).
The table at the end of this section
outlining the Typical Course of Study
for a BS shows a typical semester-bysemester
program for students who enter
as freshmen in fall 2005 or later. The
notes identified by superscript numbers
are an essential part of the table.
Students are responsible for making
themselves aware of changes that might
be made in this program after the publication
date of this catalog. Those
changes are posted outside the department’s
advising offices and on the
department’s Web page. (Students who
started their studies before fall 2005
should consult the department’s Web
page for program and course requirements
applicable to them.)
CONCENTRATIONS FOR THE BS
IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Each BS student in computer engineering
is required to take two elective
courses that are associated with a specified
concentration area. Students may
enrich the quality of a concentration by
taking additional electives in related
areas and/or doing a senior project on a
topic in the concentration area. Students
should also note that some concentration
courses have other
elective courses as prerequisites.
Students who plan to enroll in the MS
Electrical Engineering Program should
include EE 3054 as an elective in the BS
program.
A 2.7 GPA or better is required to take
6XX-level graduate courses.
The following list shows possible
concentration areas and course groupings.
Students should consult departmental
posting and its Web page for upto-date
information on concentrations.
Concentrations I and II:
Computer Architecture
CS 3254 Intro to Parallel & Distributed Systems
CS 613 Computer Architecture I
Electronics
EE 3124 Fundamentals of Electronics II
EL 644 VLSI System & Architecture Design
Software Engineering
CS 4531 Software Engineering
CS 3234 Data Base Systems
CS 391 Java and Web Designs
CS 905 Intro. to Java Programming
Security
CS 392 Computer Security
CS 393 Network Security
Communications
EE 3054 Signals & Systems
EE 3404 Fundamentals of Communications Theory
EL 501 Wireless Personal Communication
Systems
EL 601 Principles of Digital Communications:
Modulation & Coding
EL 930 Wireless Information Systems Lab
Networking
EL 501 Wireless Personal Communication
Systems
EL 537 Internet Architecture & Protocols
EL 604 Wireless & Mobile Networking
Protocols
EL 638 High-speed Networks
Signal Processing
EE 3054 Signals and Systems
EL 512 Image Processing
EL 514 Multimedia Information Processing &
Communications Lab
Systems/Control
EE 3064 Feedback Control
EL 625 Linear Systems
SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT
The two-semester Senior Design Project
allows students to focus on an application
area of computer engineering. In the
first semester students choose to concentrate
in either the hardware or software
aspect of computer engineering. They
develop skills using specialized laboratory
equipment and computer design
packages, are introduced to techniques
for planning projects and making effective
presentations, and they learn to balance
design requirements such as performance,
safety, reliability and costeffectiveness.
In the final semester, students design,
build or simulate and test a device or
system to meet prescribed engineering
specifications.
Informal and formal written and public
oral presentations help prepare students
for professional careers. Design
project students frequently work in
groups or pairs to develop interaction
skills essential to good engineering.
GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
The University requires a 2.0 GPA in all
courses taken and specifies other general
requirements in the section
“University Degree Requirements,”
which describes the core curriculum for
all engineering majors, including placement
procedures in writing, mathematics
and programming; course credits by
transfer and advanced placement; and
credit by examination.
To graduate, students must (1) have a
C- grade or better in CS 1114, 1124,
2134 and 2204 and in EE 2013 and 2024
and (2) have a technical GPA of 2.0
based on all courses prefixed EE, CS or
EL. Seniors may elect graduate courses
labeled EL 5XX, but not CS 5XX. To
enroll in other graduate courses, seniors
must have a 2.7 GPA or better in related
courses and adviser approval.
Students are expected to meet the
degree requirements in effect at the time
when they first enrolled in a Polytechnic
program. Those requirements apply as
long as a student remains in good stand-
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