Systems Concentration

Faculty: Azad Azadmanesh, Hassan Farhat, William Mahoney, Stanley Wileman

The concentration provides students with knowledge in the underlying architecture of computers. Students may choose either the hardware track or the software track. In the hardware track, students gain more in-depth knowledge in the field. Students in this track will develop skills needed to perform system and component design, provide quality assurance, and test. In the software track, knowledge in the underlying architecture helps in generating and understanding optimized software. Students in this track will develop skills that help them perform system programming, language processing, and system administration.

Required Concentration Courses (Hardware Track) - 12 Semester Hours

• CSCI 8160 — Introduction to VLSI
• CSCI 8170 — VLSI Testing
• CSCI 8610 — Fault-tolerant Distributed Systems
• CSCI 8626 — Computer Graphics

Required Concentration Courses (Software Track) - 12 Semester Hours

• CSCI 8550 — Advanced Operating System Theory
• CSCI 8610 — Fault-tolerant Distributed Systems
• CSCI 8626 — Computer Graphics
• CSCI 8706 — Compiler Construction

Elective Concentration Courses - 3 Semester Hours

• Any graduate-level computer science course.

Students must take the following required courses for this concentration.

• CSCI 8150 — Advanced Computer Architecture
• CSCI 8530 — Advanced Operating Systems