CS F103      Introduction to Computer Programming
3 Credits

Offered Fall and Spring

Computer programming for students without the background for CS F201. Concepts of object-oriented programming and algorithm design using the Python programming language.

Prerequisites: Math placement at the 100-level.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F180      Introduction to Programming and Algorithmic Thinking
1 Credit

Offered As Demand Warrants

Introduction to fundamental concepts across different programming languages including: variables, looping, conditional statements, flow, maintainable code, searching and sorting algorithms. This course is designed as an advance layer over the materials and activities associated with the T3 Alliance grant funded program (T3.alliance.org).

Lecture + Lab + Other: 1 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F201      Computer Science I
3 Credits

Offered Fall and Spring

The discipline of computer science including problem solving, algorithm development, good programming style, control flow, I/O and elementary data structures. Concepts implemented with extensive programming experience in C++, and a group programming project.

Prerequisites: Mathematics placement at the F100-level.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F202      Computer Science II
3 Credits

Offered Fall and Spring

The discipline of computer science including classes, object-oriented programming, operators, RAII, inheritance, exceptions and generic programming with templates. Concepts implemented with extensive programming experience in C++ and a group programming project.

Prerequisites: CS F201.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F241      Computer Hardware Concepts
4 Credits

Offered Spring

A programmer-centric approach to electrical circuits and microcontroller interfacing, with applications to smart devices and robotics. Covers bit-level arithmetic and logic, microcontrollers, battery-powered systems, sensor and actuator interfacing, and interdevice communication. These technologies form the foundation for smart vehicles, devices and buildings.

Prerequisites: CS F201, ES F201.

Corequisites: CS F241L.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 3 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F241L      Computer Hardware Concepts Lab
0 Credit

Offered Spring

Laboratory section for CS F241 Computer Hardware Concepts. Activities may include simulated and physical electronic circuits, microcontroller programming, digital and analog circuits.

Corequisites: CS F241.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 0 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Non-Graded

CS F254      Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Design
3 Credits

Offered As Demand Warrants

A multidisciplinary team of students will design, build, test and deliver an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) in support of university research mission requirements. Students will learn basic concepts related to the systems engineering design process. Graded events include team briefings, written reports, multimedia products and a finished UAS product.

Prerequisites: AERO F254; ME F254.

Cross-listed with AERO F256, ME F256.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F258      Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Operations
3 Credits

Offered As Demand Warrants

Covers the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), sensors, and support infrastructure required to conduct a selected mission set. Emphasis is on mission analysis, planning, and conduct, including definition of requirements/constraints, identification of appropriate assets, flight planning considerations, and data analysis requirements. Teams coordinate resources for mission and report results.

Cross-listed with AERO F258; GEOS F258; and ME F258.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F301      Assembly Language Programming
3 Credits

Offered Fall

The low level structure of a modern computer: hardware instruction set architecture, registers, the call stack, pointers, the heap and threads. Applications include performance and security.

Prerequisites: CS F202; CS F241, CSCE A241 or EE F243 (may be taken concurrently).

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F311      Data Structures and Algorithms
3 Credits

Offered Fall

Data structures and the algorithms for their manipulation. Algorithmic efficiency and asymptotic notation. Algorithms for searching and sorting. Abstract data types and container data structures: arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, tables, heaps, balanced search trees, hash tables.

Prerequisites: CS F202.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F321      Operating Systems
3 Credits

Offered Spring

The software stack in a modern computer: thread, process, container, kernel, hypervisor and network. Enforcing access control and securing communication between these layers, and designing services to use them effectively.

Prerequisites: CS F301.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F331      Programming Languages
3 Credits

Offered Spring

Syntax and semantics of widely differing programming languages. Syntax specification, lexical analysis, parsing and interpretation. Comparison of diverse languages such as Python, Haskell, Forth and Prolog.

Prerequisites: CS F311.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F371      Computer Ethics and Technical Communication
3 Credits

Offered Fall

This course explores the social, legal and ethical issues aggravated, transformed or created by computer technology. Additional focus is on technical communication skills needed in the computer industry.

Prerequisites: COM F121X, COM F131X or COM F141X; CS F202; WRTG F211X, WRTG F212X, WRTG F213X or WRTG F214X.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F372      Software Construction
3 Credits

Offered Spring

Methods for programming and construction of complete computer applications, including refractoring, performance measurement, process documentation, unit testing, version control, integrated development environments, debugging and debuggers, interpreting requirements, and design patterns.

Prerequisites: CS F311.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F392      Seminar
1-6 Credits

Lecture + Lab + Other: 0 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

Repeatable for Credit: May be taken unlimited times for up to 6 credits

CS F405      Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
3 Credits

Offered Spring

Examine diverse branches of Al placing Al in the context of computer science. Knowledge representation formalism and search technology. Programming methodologies; procedural systems such as expert systems and blackboard systems and non-procedural systems such as neural networks.

Prerequisites: CS F311.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F411      Analysis of Algorithms
3 Credits

Offered Fall

Analysis of classic algorithms, their implementation and efficiency. Topics from combinatorics (sets, graphs), algebra (integer arithmetic, primes, polynomial arithmetic, GCD, Diophantine equations, encryption), systems (parsing searching, sorting) and theory (recursion, Turing machines). The complexity classes P, NP and NP complete.

Prerequisites: MATH F307, CS F311.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F425      Database Systems
3 Credits

Offered Fall

Data independence, modeling, relationships and organization. Hierarchical, network and relational data models; canonical schema. Data description languages, SQL, query facilities, functional dependencies, normalization, data integrity and reliability. Review of current database software packages.

Prerequisites: CS F311; CS F321.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F441      System Architecture
3 Credits

Offered Spring

Computer design fundamentals, performance and cost, pipelining, instruction-level parallelism, memory hierarchy design, storage systems, and parallel processing.

Prerequisites: CS F321; CS F241 or EE F243.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F453      Robotics & 3D Printing
3 Credits

Offered As Demand Warrants

Covers self-driving cars, 3D printers, and computer-controlled machine tools as modern applications of a common software core of path planning and motion control. Includes mathematical background in 3D computational geometry, hands-on applications such as designing and fabricating resilient robot parts, and online algorithms for robot driving.

Prerequisites: MATH F253X; CS F311 or equivalent experience programming complex applications in a modern language like C++ or Python.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F463      Cryptography and Data Security
3 Credits

Offered As Demand Warrants

Specialized study of cryptography and its application in securing data systems, with an emphasis on applied cryptography. Topics include history of cryptography, encryption, digital signatures, authentication, electronic commerce, key distribution and management, private and public key cryptography, and protocols.

Prerequisites: MATH F307; CS F311.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F465      Computer and Network Security
3 Credits

Offered As Demand Warrants

Analyzes computer software, hardware and network vulnerabilities. Mechanisms to detect and defend against attacks, including authentication, access control and cryptography. Includes code vulnerabilities like buffer overflow, web issues like command injection, network protocol design and storage security. Legal and ethical issues concerning privacy, intellectual property and computer crime.

Prerequisites: CS F202, CS F301 (may be taken concurrently).

Stacked with CS F665.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F471      Senior Capstone I
3 Credits

Offered Fall

Introduction to software engineering and project management principles, techniques, methods and standards for software system development. Additional topics include technical communication, computer ethics and legal issues.

Prerequisites: CS major; senior standing; CS F311; CS F371.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F472      Senior Capstone II
3 Credits

Offered Spring

Group projects in a real computer industry environment and produce appropriate documentation and reports. Nature, ethics and legal considerations of the computer science profession are discussed with an emphasis on ethics. Additional topics include project management, design methodologies, technical presentation, human-machine interface and programming team interactions.

Prerequisites: CS F372; CS F471.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F480      Topics in Computer Science
3 Credits

Offered As Demand Warrants

Topics include, but are not limited to; computational linear algebra, cryptography, parallel algorithm development and analysis.

Special Notes: Course may be repeated when topics change.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 0 + 3 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

Repeatable for Credit: May be taken 15 times for up to 45 credits

CS F484      Computer Graphics Fundamentals
3 Credits

Offered Fall

Creation of computer-generated images using 3D graphics hardware. Mathematics and data structures in 3D graphics. Sprites, Tiles, Typography, and Vector Graphics in 2D graphics. Color, lighting, textures, hidden surface removal. Loading and saving scene graphs; Using physically based and nonphotorealistic shading. Software design principles to create interactive applications.

Prerequisites: CS F202; MATH F253X.

Stacked with CS F684.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F485      Computer Graphics Rendering
3 Credits

Offered As Demand Warrants

Designing graphics engines for realtime rendering of computer generated imagery; physically based approaches to shading and shadows; artistic approaches to shading and nonphotorealistic rendering; algorithms for rendering an image including ray tracing, deferred rendering, and global illumination; image space algorithms for simulation of camera effects.

Prerequisites: CS F202; MATH F253X.

Stacked with CS F685.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F486      Computer Graphics Animation and Simulation
3 Credits

Offered As Demand Warrants

Creation of computer graphics animation and simulation of physically based phenomena; designing simulation systems for computer graphics applications; physically based phenomena using particle systems, fluid simulation, and rigid body dynamics; key frame animation, bones, and rigging; and other related topics.

Prerequisites: CS F202; MATH F253X; PHYS F212X.

Stacked with CS F686.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F600      Professional Software Development
4 Credits

Offered Fall

Participate in a group project to explore the technical, social and ethical aspects of software development. Topics include: requirements engineering, enterprise-level data storage, software architecture, security, software testing, legal issues, computer ethics, risk management and project management.

Prerequisites: CS F472.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 4 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F601      Algorithms, Architecture and Languages
4 Credits

Offered Spring

Current research on, and cross-cutting interrelationships between computer algorithms, machine architecture and languages. Covers asymptotic performance analysis including NP-completeness, modern parallel hardware including multicore, and grammars and parsing from regular expressions to BNF.

Prerequisites: CS F331; CS F411; CS F441 or EE F443.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 4 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F605      Artificial Intelligence
3 Credits

Offered Spring

Study and writing of AI programs: expert systems, expert system shells, blackboard systems, neural networks. Representation of knowledge, pattern analysis, inference networks, neural network training. Study of software engineering aspects of AI software.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of CS graduate advisor.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F658      Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Operations
3 Credits

Offered Spring

Covers application of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to satisfy scientific research or public service missions. Students analyze mission requirements and recommend appropriate UAS vehicles, subsystems, sensors and data analysis tools to accomplish a specified mission. Students design mission profiles, conduct representative missions, produce required data products and present mission results.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

Cross-listed with AERO F658; EE F658.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F660      Rocket Systems Design
3 Credits

Offered As Demand Warrants

A multidisciplinary team of students will perform the design, construction and flights of a simple rocket system. Design considerations will include requirements for project management, rocket vehicle design, performance, thrust, stability, recovery system, telemetry and payload data.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing in engineering or physics.

Cross-listed with AERO F660; EE F660; ME F660.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F665      Computer and Network Security
3 Credits

Offered As Demand Warrants

Analyzes computer software, hardware and network vulnerabilities. Mechanisms to detect and defend against attacks, including authentication, access control and cryptography. Includes code vulnerabilities like buffer overflow, web issues like command injection, network protocol design and storage security. Legal and ethical issues concerning privacy, intellectual property and computer crime.

Stacked with CS F465.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F680      Topics in Computer Science
1-4 Credits

Offered As Demand Warrants

Example topics include, but are not limited to, software requirements engineering, cryptography, parallel algorithm development and analysis. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.

Prerequisites: Varies with each topic.

Recommended: Varies with each topic.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 1-4 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

Repeatable for Credit: May be taken 15 times for up to 45 credits

CS F681      Topics in Computer Graphics
3 Credits

Offered Fall

Hardware, software and techniques used in computer graphics taken from topics such as refresh, storage, raster scan technology, volume rendering, particle systems, shading, image processing, computer aided design, video effects, animation and virtual environments.

Prerequisites: CS F202 and MATH F253X.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

Repeatable for Credit: May be taken 3 times for up to 12 credits

CS F684      Computer Graphics Fundamentals
3 Credits

Offered Fall

Creation of computer-generated images using 3D graphics hardware. Mathematics and data structures in 3D graphics. Sprites, Tiles, Typography, and Vector Graphics in 2D graphics. Color, lighting, textures, hidden surface removal. Loading and saving scene graphs; Using physically based and nonphotorealistic shading. Software design principles to create interactive applications.

Prerequisites: CS F202; MATH F253X.

Stacked with CS F484.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F685      Computer Graphics Rendering
3 Credits

Offered As Demand Warrants

Designing graphics engines for realtime rendering of computer generated imagery; physically based approaches to shading and shadows; artistic approaches to shading and nonphotorealistic rendering; algorithms for rendering an image including ray tracing, deferred rendering, and global illumination; image space algorithms for simulation of camera effects.

Prerequisites: CS F202; MATH F253X.

Stacked with CS F485.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F686      Computer Graphics Animation and Simulation
3 Credits

Offered As Demand Warrants

Creation of computer graphics animation and simulation of physically based phenomena; designing simulation systems for computer graphics applications; physically based phenomena using particle systems, fluid simulation, and rigid body dynamics; key frame animation, bones, and rigging; and other related topics.

Prerequisites: CS F202 and PHYS F212X.

Stacked with CS F486.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

CS F690      Graduate Seminar and Project
3 Credits

Offered Fall

First semester of two-semester seminar in which students will work on and present the results of major programming or literature survey projects in computer science. Written and oral reports will be required.

Prerequisites: 12 credits in graduate computer science courses; or permission of Computer Science graduate advisor.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Pass/Fail Grades

CS F691      Graduate Seminar and Project
3 Credits

Offered Spring

Second semester of a two-semester seminar in which students will work on and present the results of major programming or literature survey projects in computer science. Written and oral reports will be required.

Prerequisites: CS F690; 12 credits in graduate computer science courses; or permission of Computer Science advisor.

Lecture + Lab + Other: 3 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Pass/Fail Grades

CS F692      Seminar
1-6 Credits

Lecture + Lab + Other: 1-6 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Letter Grades with option of Plus/Minus

Repeatable for Credit: May be taken unlimited times for up to 6 credits

CS F698      Non-thesis Research/Project
1-9 Credits

Lecture + Lab + Other: 0 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Pass/Fail Grades

Repeatable for Credit: May be taken unlimited times for up to 99 credits

CS F699      Thesis
1-9 Credits

Lecture + Lab + Other: 0 + 0 + 0

Grading System: Pass/Fail Grades

Repeatable for Credit: May be taken unlimited times for up to 99 credits