COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Distributed Systems and Middleware

Course Number: Computer Engineering (Cpr E450/550)

Credit: 3 undergraduate or graduate credits

Tuition: $669 undergraduate, $1041 graduate, plus $540 delivery fee

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Dates: January 14 - May 9, 2008

Classes: Tuesday and Thursday, 3:40-5:00pm

Enrollment Deadline: December 31, 2007

   Fundamentals of distributed computing, software agents, naming services, distributed transactions, security management, distributed object-based systems, middleware-based application design and development, case studies of middleware.

Prerequisites: CprE 308 or ComS 352

Computer Requirements: College of Engineering Requirements

Note: May be applied toward Masters of Science in Computer Engineering

Instructor: Yong Guan

For information visit: www.lifelearner.iastate.edu/courses/disciplineSpring08.htm or call Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. toll free (800) 262-0015.

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Hardware Software Integration

Course Number: Computer Engineering (Cpr E) 483

Credit: 4 undergraduate credits and 4 non major graduate credits

Tuition: $892 undergraduate, $1388 graduate, plus $720 delivery fee

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Dates: January 14 - May 9,

Classes: Monday, Wednesday, Friday; 2:10-3:00pm

Enrollment Deadline: December 31, 2007

   Design of microprocessors with hardware description language and programmable logic devices. Use of microprocessors as system components. Bus architectures and standard interfaces. Embedded software development. Development of embedded systems by integrating embedded software and microprocessors. Laboratory-oriented design projects.

Prerequisites: CprE 381

Computer Requirements: College of Engineering Requirements

Note: May be applied toward Masters of Science in Computer Engineering

Instructor: Morris Chang

For information visit: www.lifelearner.iastate.edu/courses/disciplineSpring08.htm or call Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. toll free (800) 262-0015.

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Advanced Protocols and Network Security

Course Number: Computer Engineering (CprE/InfAs) 530

Credit: 3 graduate credits

Tuition: $1041 graduate plus $540 delivery fee

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Dates: January 14 - May 9, 2008

Classes: TBA

Enrollment Deadline: December 31, 2007

   Detailed examination of networking standards, protocols, and their implementation. TCP/IP protocol suite, network application protocols, IP routing, network security issues. Emphasis on laboratory experiments

Prerequisites: CprE 381

Computer Requirements: College of Engineering Requirements

Instructor: Doug Jacobson

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Information Warfare

Course Number: Computer Engineering (Cpr E/InfAs) 532

Credit: 3 graduate credits

Tuition: $1041 graduate plus $540 delivery fee

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Dates: January 14-May 9, 2008

Classes: Tuesday/Thursday 8 -9:20 a.m.

Enrollment Deadline: January 4, 2008

   Computer system and network security: implementation, configuration, testing of security software and hardware, network monitoring. Authentication, firewalls, vulnerabilities, exploits, countermeasures. Ethics in information assurance. Emphasis on laboratory experiments.

Prerequisites: CprE/InfAs 531: Information System Security

Computer Requirements: College of Engineering Requirements

Note: May be applied toward Certificate in Information Assurance, Master of Engineering in Systems Engineering, Masters of Science in Information Assurance, Masters of Science in Computer Engineering

Instructor: Doug Jacobson

For information visit: www.lifelearner.iastate.edu/courses/disciplineSpring08.htm or call Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. toll free (800) 262-0015.

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Steganography and Watermarking

Course Number: Computer Engineering (Cpr E) 535/Information Assurance (InfAs) 535/Mathematics (Math) 535, section XE

Credit: 3 graduate credits

Tuition: $990 graduate plus $540 delivery fee: $540 (If you drop this course, part or all of the delivery fee may be refunded dependent on the date of the drop.)

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Dates: January 14 - May 9, 2008

Classes: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:40-2:00pm

Enrollment Deadline: January 4, 2008

   Basic principles of steganography and watermarking. Algorithms based on spatial domain approaches, transformations of data, statistical approaches. Techniques for images, video, and audio data. Communications models for data hiding. Analysis, detection and recovery of hidden data. Military, commercial and e-commerce applications. Known theoretical results. Software packages for data hiding. Social and legal issues, case studies, and digital rights management issues that affect technological development of steganography and watermarking. Current developments in the area.

Prerequisite: Cpr E 531 (Information System Security) or E E 524 (Digital Signal Processing) or CprE/InfAs/Math 533 (Cryptography) or permission of the instructor, (515) 294-2941 or davidson@iastate.edu On-campus students who wish to enroll should contact Engineering Distance Education at (515) 294-7470.

Computer Requirements: http://www.ede.iastate.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=115&Itemid=117

Note: May be applied toward Masters of Science in Computer Engineering, Certificate in Information Assurance, Master of Science in Information Assurance

Instructor: Jennifer Davidson

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Optical Communication Networks

Course Number: Computer Engineering (Cpr E) 542

Credit: 3 graduate credits

Tuition: $1041 graduate plus $540 delivery fee

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Dates: January 14 - May 9, 2008

Classes: Tuesday, Thursday; 4:10-5:30pm

Enrollment Deadline: January 4, 008

   Optical components and interfaces; optical transmission and reception techniques; wavelength division multiplexing; network architectures and protocol for first generation, single and multihop optical network; routing and wavelength assignment in second generation wavelength routing networks; traffic grooming, optical network control; access networks; metro networks.

Prerequisites: CprE 489

Computer Requirements: College of Engineering Requirements

Note: May be applied toward Masters of Science in Computer Engineering ; MS in Information Assuarance

Instructor: Ahmed Kamal

For information visit: www.lifelearner.iastate.edu/courses/disciplineSpring08.htm or call Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. toll free (800) 262-0015.

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Fault-Tolerant Systems

Course Number: Computer Engineering (Cpr E)545, XE

Credit: 3 graduate credits

Tuition: $1041 graduate plus $540 delivery fee

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Dates: January 14 - May 9, 2008

Classes: Tuesday and Thrusday, 12:40-2:00pm

Enrollment Deadline: January 4, 2008

   Location and reconfiguration techniques; time, space, and information (coding) redundancy management; design for testability; self-checking and fail-safe circuits; system-level fault diagnosis; Byzantine agreement; stable storage and RAID; fault-tolerant networks; fault tolerance in real-time systems; reliable software design; checkpointing and rollback recovery; and reliability evaluation techniques and tools.

Prerequisites: CprE 381

Computer Requirements: College of Engineering Requirements

Note: May be applied toward Masters of Science in Computer Engineering , Masters of Science in Information Assurance

Instructor: G. Manimaran

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Advanced Computer Architecture

Course Number: Computer Engineering (Cpr E)681, XE

Credit: 3 graduate credits

Tuition: $1041 graduate plus $540 delivery fee

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Dates: January 14 - May 9, 2008

Classes: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 2:10-3:10pm

Enrollment Deadline: January 4, 2008

   Current topics in computer architecture design and implementation. Advanced pipelining, cache and memory design techniques. Interaction of algorithms with architecture models and implementations. Tradeoffs in architecture models and implementations.

Prerequisites: CprE 581

Computer Requirements: College of Engineering Requirements

Note: May be applied toward Masters of Science in Computer Engineering

Instructor: Akhilesh Tyagi

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