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Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
_at_umbc.edu

• University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Baltimore, MD 21250
• Fall 2008

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UMBC at a glance

• One of eleven USM campuses, one of three research
  universities
• About 10,000 students, including 2500 grad
  students
• About 400 faculty, in 28 departments
• Operating budget of 331M
• Sponsored research of about 80M
• Founded in 1966, Carnegie Research Doctoral
  Extensive by 2002
• Training Center and Research Park
• Famous for diversity, and chess, but not football!

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CSEE at a glance

• 35 professors, with PhDs from
• Cornell, Illinois, Hopkins, UMass, MIT, North
  Carolina, Ohio State, Princeton, Purdue, SUNY
  Buffalo, Stony Brook, U Penn, UC Berkeley, UCLA,
  UMBC, UMCP, Georgia Tech, Hebrew, Weizmann,
  Technion
• 6 lecturers
• 800 undergraduate students
• 550 computer science, 250 computer engineering
• 300 graduate students

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CSEE Degree Programs

• BS, MS and PhD in Computer Science
• BS, MS and PhD in Computer Engineering
• MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering
• MS in Systems Engineering

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CSEE Research

• 4M per year in research expenditures
• Research required for grad students, optional for
  juniors and seniors
• Exposure to leading edge technologies
• Frequent seminars by distinguished visitors
• Proximity to industry and government labs

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Why study at UMBC?

• Fully accredited program
• Strong curriculum
• Excellent research faculty
• First-rate computing facilities
• Large and diverse community at UMBC
• Other IT program options if a students goals or
  interests change
• E.g., Computer Engineering, Information Systems,
  Business Technology Administration,
  Bioinformatics, Interactive Entertainment (Visual
  Arts )

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BS in Computer Science

• Technical and rigorous
• follows IEEE and ACM guidelines.
• Combines theory and practice
• hardware, software, algorithms and theory
• Preparation for lifetime learning

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CS Course Requirements

• 44 credits in Computer Science courses
• 18 credits in Mathematics courses
• 12 credits in Science courses
• 24-33 credits in General Foundations
• 13-22 free elective credits

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Intermediate Courses

• CMSC 313 Computer Org. Assembly Lang.
• Systems course low-level programming, digital
  logic
• CMSC 331 Programming Languages
• Survey of languages LISP, Prolog, C, ML
• CMSC 341 Data Structures
• More Java programming
• CMSC 345 Software Design Development
• Software engineering group project, software
  life cycle

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Advanced Electives (selected)

• Systems
• CMSC 461 Database Management Systems
• CMSC 481 Computer Networks
• CMSC 483 Parallel and Distributed Processing
• Programming Languages
• CMSC 431 Compiler Design Principles
• CMSC 432 Object-Oriented Languages Systems
• CMSC 433 Scripting Languages
• CMSC 484 Java Server Technologies
• Applied Mathematics
• CMSC 442 Information and Coding Theory
• CMSC 455 Numerical Computations

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Advanced Electives (cont.)

• Security
• CMSC 426 Principles of Computer Security
• CMSC 444 Information Assurance
• CMSC 482 Computer Systems Security
• Intelligent Systems
• CMSC 471 Artificial Intelligence
• CMSC 473 Natural language Processing
• CMSC 475 Neural Network Computing
• CMSC 476 Information Retrieval
• CMSC 477 Multi-agent Systems
• Graphics
• CMSC 435 Computer Graphics
• CMSC 437 Graphical User Interfaces

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Special Topics Courses

• Covers recent hot developments in IT
• Keeps curriculum up to date
• Recent special topics offerings
• Robotics
• Wearable Computing
• Sensor Networks
• Electronic Voting
• Computer Graphics for Games
• Machine Learning
• Service Oriented Computing
• Quantum Computing

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CMPE BSProgram

• More hardware oriented than Computer Science
• Emphasizes laboratory experience
• More physics and applied math
• Hands-on experience with electronic equipment and
  standard industrial VLSI design tools, including
  CADENCE

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Flexibility Two Tracks

• CMPE program has two tracks
• VLSI (VLSI chip design, FPGA Design and allied
  areas)
• Communications (digital signal processing,
  photonics and communications theory)
• Both tracks supported by a strong common core,
  with specialization into tracks in Jr/Sr yrs
• Major design project as part of the Capstone
  Course

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CMPERequirements

• 124/125 total credits required
• 17 credits in Computer Science
• 25 credits in Computer Eng.
• 25 credits in Mathematics
• 12 credits in Physics and Chemistry
• 12 credits in technical electives
• 24-33 credits in General Foundations
• 3 credits in Technical Writing

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Lab Resources

• Dedicated labs for undergraduate instruction
• CAD Lab
• Test and Measurement Lab
• Electrical Engineering Lab
• Senior Design Project Workshop
• Communications Lab (thanks, Tektronix!)
• Computer Forensics Lab (in progress)
• Equipment and software support provided by
  industrial partners like Cadence, Dell,
  Tektronix, National Instruments, Synopsys and
  others

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Student Resources

• Computer Science Council of Majors
• IEEE and ACM student chapters
• Society of Computer Engineers
• Center for Women and Information Technology
• Triangle (not your ordinary fraternity!)
• Computer Science Help Center Student run
  tutoring center

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Co-op andinternship

• Valuable for a competitive job market
• Bears academic credit, and complements formal
  studies
• Full time and part-time opportunities
• Shriver Center monitors placements
• We encourage study abroad, and international
  exchanges!

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Are the jobs really out there?

• Highly favorable opportunities are expected for
  college graduates with at least a bachelors
  degree in computer engineering or computer
  science and with practical work experience. -
  U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Problems that engineers will face in the future
  are so complex and multidimensional that it
  doesn't make sense to solve them with a group of
  people who essentially have one common background
  and perspective. - Gary Gabriele, NSF

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Combined BS/MS Programs

• Four graduate programs
• MS and Ph.D. CMPE, CMSC, EE
• MS Systems Engineering
• CMPE majors may do combined BS/MS in CMPE, CMSC,
  or EE

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For more information...

• College of Engineering and IT
• Lead advisor Cathy Bielawski bielawsk_at_umbc.edu
• Grad program coordinator Keara
  Fligginsfliggins_at_umbc.edu
• CSEE Web page http//www.csee.umbc.edu

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EXTRA SLIDES
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Programming Courses

• CMSC 104 Problem Solving Programming
• First programming course basic computer
  concepts, programming projects in C.
• CMSC 201 Computer Science I
• Procedural programming in C functions, pointers,
  basic data structures, code design.
• CMSC 202 Computer Science II
• Object-oriented programming in Java objects,
  class design, inheritance, polymorphism,
  templates.

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Required Advanced Courses

• CMSC 411 Computer Architecture
• Design a CPU using VHDL
• CMSC 421 Operating Systems
• Principles behind modern operating systems
• CMSC 441 Algorithms
• Design and analysis

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Departmental Honors

• Program Requirements
• As in CMSC 201 202
• Maintain 3.25 overall GPA
• Maintain 3.5 GPA in computer science
• Course Requirements
• CMSC 341H Data Structures
• Two more CMSC 4xx Honors courses
• Honors Thesis

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Minor in Computer Science

• Required Courses 14 credits
• CMSC 201 202 Computer Science I II
• CMSC 203 Discrete Structures
• CMSC 341 Data Structures
• Elective Courses 9 credits
• 1-3 CMSC 4xx courses
• 0-2 courses chosen from
• CMSC 313 Computer Org. Assembly Language
• CMSC 331 Programming Languages
• MATH 221 Linear Algebra.

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For more information...

• College of Engineering Advisors
• ECS Building, Room 201
• Ms. Cathy Bielawski
• CSEE Web page
• http//www.csee.umbc.edu/CSEE/ugrad/
• CMPE Engineering Undergraduate Home Page Link

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The End

• Questions?