2011–2012 UNIVERSITY CATALOG - Florida Institute of Technology

CSE 2410 INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (3 credits).
Presents a basis for the integration of engineering rigor and software development.
Students are shown a practical yet rigorous method of going from a problem concept to
a software solution. Includes requirements specification, functional specification and
coding techniques using information hiding and stepwise refinement. Prerequisites:
CSE 2010 or ECE 2552.
CSE 2500 COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY (3 credits). Covers
elementary and advanced counting techniques including permutations, combinations,
multisets, inclusion-exclusion, generating functions and recurrence relations. Also
presents topics in graph theory including graphs, trees, binary tree, graph traversals
and network flow. Prerequisites: CSE 1001 or CSE 1502 or CSE 1503, CSE 1400 or
MTH 2051.
CSE 3030 LEGAL, ETHICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN COMPUTING
(3 credits). Overviews legal, ethical and moral considerations for the computing
professions. Includes the impact of legal concepts on society, the need for ethical
considerations in software systems development, and the potential need for professional
certification. Prerequisites: COM 2012, COM 2223 or COM 2224, CSE 1002
or CSE 1502 or CSE 1503 or ECE 2551.
CSE 3101 MACHINE AND ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE (3 credits). Presents
a processor’s instruction set and programming structures available to the assembly
language programmer. Includes relations between architecture, machine language
and assembly language. Also includes assembly program interfaces with the operating
system and higher-level languages. Prerequisites: CSE 1002.
CSE 3120 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND ASSEMBLY
PROGRAMMING (3 credits). Introduces advanced computer architecture concepts.
Includes microcode, execution pipelines, cache management, vector processors, parallel
architectures and RISC processors. Explores the interfacing of assembly language
programs with the operating system and high-level languages. Requires students to
interface assembly with C and the Win32 API. Prerequisites: CSE 2050, CSE 2120.
CSE 3280 COMPUTER GRAPHICS PROGRAMMING (3 credits). Introduces
computer graphics programming, the graphics pipeline, input and interaction using
modern popular graphics APIs. Includes programming techniques for graphics primitives
and transformations, viewing, lighting and shading, texturing and animation.
Prerequisites: CSE 2010 or CSE 2502 or ECE 2552.
CSE 3411 SOFTWARE TESTING 1 (3 credits). Explores functional (black box)
methods for testing software systems, reporting problems effectively and planning
testing projects. Students apply what they have learned throughout the course to a
sample application that is commercially available or under development. The choice of
sample application changes from term to term. Prerequisites: CSE 1002, CSE 1400 or
ECE 2552, ECE 3541.
CSE 3421 SOFTWARE DESIGN METHODS (3 credits). Explores methods for
the design of software systems. Includes formal specifications of software behavior,
object-oriented analysis/design and structured analysis/design. Prerequisites: CSE 2410.
CSE 4001 OPERATING SYSTEMS CONCEPTS (3 credits). Examines the
design and implementation of operating systems. Includes process, storage and
recovery management. Explores issues involved in moving from single-user systems to
multitasking, multiprocessing and multiprocessor systems. Prerequisites: CSE 2050,
ECE 2552, ECE 3551.
CSE 4020 DATABASE SYSTEMS (3 credits). Introduces the fundamentals of
computer database systems. Includes a review of file structures, concepts of database
design, functional units of a typical database system and application of database
concepts to real-world problems. Prerequisites: CSE 2010 or ECE 2552.
CSE 4051 ADVANCED JAVA CONCEPTS (3 credits). Studies core Java and its
major class libraries. Includes exception handling, packages, threads, internationalization,
building graphical user interfaces, applets, networking, RMI, introspection (Java
beans), cryptography and database connectivity. (Requirement: Instructor approval or
prerequisite course.) Prerequisites: CSE 2010 or ECE 2552.
CSE 4081 INTRODUCTION TO ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS (3 credits).
Covers time and space complexity of algorithms. Analyzes algorithms for sorting,
searching, string processing and graph problems. Presents strategies such as divideand-conquer,
and greedy and dynamic programming as problem-solution techniques.
Prerequisites: CSE 2010 or ECE 2552, ECE 3541.
CSE 4082 INTRODUCTION TO PARALLEL AND REAL-TIME
ALGORITHMS (3 credits). Introduces parallel algorithm development, architecture
for parallel computers, programming paradigms SIMD and MIMD for shared memory
and distributed memory computers. Presents parallel algorithms for matrix computations,
sorting and searching, and various numerical algorithms. Includes analysis of performance
and scalability of parallel algorithms. Prerequisites: CSE 1502 or CSE 1503 or CSE 2050
or ECE 2552.
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CSE 4083 FORMAL LANGUAGES AND AUTOMATA THEORY (3 credits).
Presents abstract models of computers (finite automata, pushdown automata and
Turing machines) and the language classes they recognize or generate (regular,
context-free and recursively enumerable). Also presents applications of these models
to compiler design, algorithms and complexity theory. Prerequisites: CSE 2010 or
ECE 2552, ECE 3541.
CSE 4101 COMPUTER SCIENCE PROJECTS 1 (3 credits). A two-semester,
senior-year project sequence that serves as the capstone for the project-intensive
courses in computer science. Students team to implement a software project from
conception to completion. (Requirement: Prerequisite course and senior standing in
computer science; may not be taken concurrently.) (Q) Prerequisites: CSE 2010.
CSE 4102 COMPUTER SCIENCE PROJECTS 2 (3 credits). A two-semester
senior year project sequence that serves as the capstone for the project-intensive
courses in computer science. Students team to implement a software project from
conception to completion. (Requirement: Prerequisite course and senior standing in
computer science; may not be taken concurrently.) (Q) Prerequisites: CSE 4101.
CSE 4201 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS 1 (3 credits). A twosemester,
senior-year project sequence that serves as the capstone for the projectintensive
courses in software engineering. Students team to implement a software
project from conception to completion. (Requirement: Prerequisite course and senior
standing in computer science; may not be taken concurrently.) (Q) Prerequisites:
CSE 2010.
CSE 4202 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS 2 (3 credits). A twosemester,
senior-year project sequence that serves as the capstone for the projectintensive
courses in software engineering. Students team to implement a software
project from conception to completion. (Requirement: Prerequisite course and senior
standing in software engineering; may not be taken concurrently.) (Q) Prerequisites:
CSE 4201.
CSE 4232 COMPUTER NETWORK PROGRAMMING (3 credits). Covers
design and implementation of networked programs. Includes multi-threading, client/
server programming, remote method invocation, exception handling, object serialization
and shared-space programming. Prerequisites: CSE 2010 or CSE 2050 or ECE 2552.
CSE 4250 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE CONCEPTS (3 credits). Surveys
programming language concepts and design principles of programming paradigms
(procedural, functional and logic). Includes a history of programming languages, data
types supported, control structures and run-time management of dynamic structures.
Prerequisites: CSE 2010 or ECE 2552.
CSE 4251 COMPILER THEORY (3 credits). Introduces formal languages, the
construction of scanners and recursive descent, LL (1) and LR (1) parsers, intermediate
forms, symbol tables, code generation and optimization of resultant code.
Prerequisites: CSE 2010, CSE 3101 or ECE 2552, ECE 3551.
CSE 4257 GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES (3 credits). Studies the theories
and techniques of human-computer interaction and the design of direct manipulation
graphical-user interfaces that support menus, buttons, sliders and other widgets
for input, text and graphics for output. Students design, implement and evaluate a
graphical-user interface. Prerequisites: CSE 2010 or ECE 2552.
CSE 4272 COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SECURITY (3 credits).
Introduces the fundamentals of computer security. Includes vulnerability analysis,
threat modeling and risk assessment, and techniques for asset protection. Discusses
economic, legal and ethical issues in computer security. Focuses on a system-wide
view of security and discusses trends in current literature. Prerequisites: CSE 2010 or
ECE 2552.
CSE 4280 COMPUTER GRAPHICS ALGORITHMS (3 credits). Introduces
computer graphics algorithms, software and hardware. Includes ray tracing, the
graphics pipeline, transformations, texture mapping, shading models, sampling, global
illumination, splines, animation and color models. Programming format in course
provides sufficient background to write computer graphics applications. Prerequisites:
CSE 2010 or ECE 2552.
CSE 4301 INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (3 credits).
Surveys artificial intelligence, focusing on state-space and problem-reduction
approaches to problem solving. Attention is given to the use of heuristics and their
use in game-playing programs. Also discusses knowledge representation, automated
reasoning and expert systems. Prerequisites: CSE 2010 or ECE 2552.
CSE 4303 SPEECH RECOGNITION PROGRAMMING (3 credits). Introduces
students to techniques for speech recognition and the integration of ASR in programs,
using general speech recognition tools. Covers techniques including feature extraction
from speech data, neural networks, Gaussian mixtures, estimate and maximize, data
clustering techniques, Viterbi, Hidden Markov Models (HMM), keyword spotting and
beam search. Prerequisites: CSE 2050 or ECE 2552, CSE 2400 or MTH 2401.
CSE 4400 INDEPENDENT STUDY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (1-3 credits).
Individual projects under the direction of faculty members of the computer science
or software engineering programs. May be repeated for a maximum of six credits.
(Requirement: Instructor approval.)