Computer Science Program

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Computer Science Program
William Paterson University
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Department of Computer Science
The Coach House
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Department of Computer Science
New Home in 2011-2012
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Highlights of Our Program

• Accredited by ABET/CAC (Accreditation Board for
  Engineering and Technology/Computing
  Accreditation Commission)
• Curriculum Up-to-date, challenging, and
  flexible.
• Computing facilities State-of-the-art and fully
  networked computing systems
• Work/Study and internship opportunities
• Small class size
• Institutionalized mentoring/lab assistants
  program.
• Articulation agreement with College of Computing
  Sciences of NJIT

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Curriculum

• Build upon foundation math and science courses
• Computer courses are balanced between theory and
  applications
• Conforms to ABET IEEE/ACM national standards
• Wide range of upper level computer electives
• Prepare students for a professional career or
  graduate study
• Internship/Honors program/Indep. studies
• Research opportunities

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Math Foundation Courses

• MATH-160 Calculus I
• MATH-161 Calculus II
• MATH-324 Probability and Statistics

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Computer Science Core Courses

• CS-230 Computer Science I
• CS-240 Computer Science II
• CS-260 Discrete Structures
• CS-280 Assembler Language
• CS-341 Digital Logic Computer Organization
• CS-341 Data Structures
• CS-345 Operating systems

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Other Required Computer Science Courses

• CS-350 Software Engineering
• CS-372 Design Analysis of Algorithms
• CS-382 Programming Languages
• CS-480 Computer Science Seminar

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Computer Science Electives

• CS-399 Selected Topics
• CS-402 Numerical Methods
• CS-404 Computer Simulation
• CS-405 Systems Programming
• CS-410 Artificial Intelligence
• CS-420 Compiler Construction
• CS-430 Data Communications Computer Networks
• CS-440 Database Management
• CS-441 Computer Architecture
• CS-445 Theory of Computation
• CS-461 Computer Graphics

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Internship/Honors Computer Science Project/Indep.
Studies

• CS-490 Honors Computer Science
  Project
• CS-495 Internship
• CS-499 Independent Studies
• Note
• CS Minor (20 credits)
• CIS Minor (18/19 credits)
• CIT Major (Planned to start in 2011-2012)

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Computing facilities

• Three teaching computer labs in Atrium and many
  other computer labs on campus for general access
• Three additional labs in Coach House exclusively
  for CS majors
• Sun Microsystems server workstations
• Solaris UNIX and Windows XP Platforms
• Lab computers are replaced every 3 years
• Variety of application software packages
• Fully networked (wired and wireless) environment
• Students participate in lab administration and
  maintenance

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Small Class Size

• All classes are capped at 20
• Upper level class average less than 15 students
• All Computer Science major classes taught by full
  time faculty

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Student Research

• Many students have been involved in research with
  faculty members (e.g., CfR in College of Science
  and Health, Dr. Kaufmans NSF grant starts in
  2007)
• Students presented their papers with professors
  in prestigious national and international
  conferences (e.g., Sigma Xi Annual Conference at
  St. Joseph University, Annual Student Math
  Conference at Moravian College)
• Current faculty research interests are in
  software engineering, databases, computer
  architecture, compiler, digital signal
  processing, optimization theory and algorithms,
  and logic foundation in computer science.

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Publish with Students

• Erh-Wen Hu, Cyril S. Ku, Andrew T. Russo, Bogong
  Su, and Jian Wang, Performance Analysis of
  Digital Signal processors Using SMV Benchmark,
  International Journal of Signal Processing,
  Volume 5, Number 3, pages 223-230, Summer 2009.
• Cyril S. Ku, Thomas J. Marlowe, Tatyana
  Budanskaya, and Philip K. Kang, Software
  Engineering Design Patterns for Relational
  Databases, Proceedings of the 2007 International
  Conference on Software Engineering Research and
  Practice (SERP07), CSREA Press, Volume II, pages
  340-344, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 25-28, 2007.
• Cyril S. Ku, Thomas J. Marlowe, Nathan M.
  Mantell, Design Patterns across Software
  Engineering and Relational Databases,
  Proceedings of the 15th International Conference
  on Software Engineering and Data Engineering
  (SEDE-2006), Los Angeles, California, USA, pages
  271-274, July 6-8, 2006.
• Erh-Wen Hu, Cyril S. Ku, Andrew T. Russo, Bogong
  Su, and Jian Wang, New DSP Benchmark based on
  Selectable Mode Vocoder (SMV), Proceedings of
  the 2006 International Conference on Computer
  Design (CDES06), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, CSREA
  Press, pages 175-181, June 26-29, 2006.

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Work/Study Opportunities

• Internal many of CS majors work part-time with
  the Instruction and Research Technology (IRT) or
  with the department on tutoring and lab assistant
  program
• External many other Computer Science majors work
  part-time with local industries.

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CS Student Organizations

• Computer Society (SGA)
• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Student
  Chapter
• UPE National Honor Society (more than 126
  students have been inducted since 1988)

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Career Opportunity

• Starting salary is among the highest.
• Computer Support Specialists and Computer
  Software Engineers are projected to be the
  biggest job gainers in the U. S. from 2000 to
  2010 (Time Magazine, November 24, 2003). They are
  jobs with the greatest projected employment
  growth in New Jersey from 2000 to 2010
  (Star-Ledger, January 25, 2004).
• 1 (Software Engineer) and 7 (Computer/IT
  Analyst) best jobs in America for the next 10
  years 2004 to 2014 (MONEY Magazine and
  Salary.com).
• Demand for computer software engineers will
  increase as computer networking continues to grow.

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Where Do Our Graduates Go (A Sample)?

• Our graduates have been employed by IBM,
  Telcordia Technologies, ATT, Lucent
  Technologies, Verizon, Pfizer, Johnson Johnson,
  UPS, and many other companies.
• Several have chosen to pursue graduate studies
  many have gone to NJIT, Stevens Institute of
  Technology, SUNY at Stony Brook (1 received
  Turner scholarship for Ph.D. in Computer
  Science), UMDNJ (1 in Biomedical Engineering),
  University of Delaware (1 Ph.D. in Computer
  Engineering, 1 Ph.D. in Computer Science in
  2005), Drexel University (2 with full research
  assistantships in Computer Science in 2004),
  William Paterson University (1 with assistantship
  in MBA).

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Faculty

• Li-hsiang (Aria) Cheo, Ph.D., New York University
• Erh-Wen Hu, Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute of New
  York
• Linda Kaufman, Ph.D., Stanford University
• Cyril S. Ku, Ph.D., Northwestern University
• John Najarian, Ph.D., City University of New York
• Gilbert Ndjatou, Ph.D., City University of New
  York
• Bogong Su, Ph.D., Tsinghua University, China

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Summary

• Affordable education
• Quality program
• Stimulating learning environment
• Caring faculty members
• Many levels of support systems to help you
  succeed
• Excellent career opportunities

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More Information?

• For more information
• Call CS Department at [phone]
• E-mail the Department Chairperson, Dr. Cyril S.
  Ku at kuc_at_wpunj.edu
• Department Web page at http//cs.wpunj.edu