SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Engineering
ISE/COMP 270 Information Engineering / Computer Engineering – Spring 2013
Professor: Ammar Rayes
Professor’s Home Page: http://www.sjsu.edu/people/ammar.rayes/
Course URL: http://www.sjsu.edu/people/ammar.rayes/courses/
Email: ammar.rayes@sjsu.edu
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. To give the student a solid foundation on Information System Devolvement Methods
including systems analysis process, software development process, some basic
concepts about hardware implementation and their implications for information
engineering.
2. To give the student a solid foundation on Information Engineering: networking
fundamentals, network management fundamentals, formulation of informational
needs, ERP, big data, cloud computing and Internet of Things.
COURSE CONTENTS
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The Context of System Analysis and Design Methods
Info System Development
Project Management
System Analysis Methods
Requirements / Fact Finding Techniques
Data base modeling and design
System design methods
Life Cycle Planning
Computer Communications and Network Fundamental
Network Management Fundamentals
Recent Advances: Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, Machine
to Machine, etc.
Lecture Topics: Technologies, strategies and systems for planning, analyzing, designing
and implementing data resources in order to satisfy the information needs of an enterprise
and to support continuous improvement in process efficiency and product quality.
Individual Projects: A main project will be assigned. Each student will be expected to
complete the project alone, without any collaboration with fellow students or any other
people. Each student will be expected to select a topic related to the course as the subject
of a final project. Different students may work on the same or similar subjects, but,
again, the final projects are “individual” projects, with no collaboration with fellow
students or any other people allowed.
PRE-REQUISITE: ISE graduate standing, MSE graduate standing or instructor consent.
COURSE CONDUCT:
One 2-hour-and-45-minute lecture per week. Reading assignments will be made, and the
reading should be completed prior to the corresponding lecture. Exercise problems will
be assigned for homework.
TEXT:
 Systems Analysis and Design Methods (7th Edition), J.L. Whitten, L.D. Bentley and
Kevin Dittman, McGraw-Hill.
 Computer Networking A Top-Down Approach (5th Edition), J. F. Kurose and K. W.
Ross, Addison Wesley.
GRADING
 Homework - 15%: Homework will be checked for completion. No late homework
will be accepted.
 Mid-term examination - 20%.
 Final Examination – 20%.
 Final Project (Required- Cannot pass without the final report) – 45%: Its
evaluation consists of three independent components: evaluation of technical
contents, evaluation of presentation and assessment of competency in technical
writing.
 Technical contents - 10%: The value of the technical contents will be evaluated,
and it accounts for 10% of the course grade.
 Presentation – 5%: 5 minutes will be allocated for the presentation of each final
project. The score will account for 5% of the course grade.
 Competency in technical writing as demonstrated by the final report – 30%:
This report summarizes the results of the final project. The student’s competency
in technical writing accounts for 30% of his or her grade for this course. This
30% is allocated exclusively to the technical writing of the report. The
performance in presenting the final report to the class will be assessed as an
additional and independent component and will account for the 5% of course
grade specified in the previous bullet. This competency will be assessed based on
this final report. This is a major report, with a minimum-length requirement of 10
single-spaced pages. More precisely, the main body of the text of the final report
must be 10 pages or longer on 11-inch by 8.5-inch paper, with a 1-inch margin on
all four sides and with a font size of 12 or smaller. The title page, coversheets,
references, bibliography, acknowledgement, tables and figures are not considered
as part of the main body of the text. This is also an individual report, to be
authored by only one student and not to be written by a team of multiple students.
It must be written without any assistance from any other people. Before
submitting the final report to the instructor, the student must submit it to
“turnitin.com.” Submission details will be announced in class.
Important (Final Project Report):
1. All References must be listed according to IEEE standards.
2. You MUST put citations if you are quoting or paraphrasing from
other material in the TEXT. If you look at any IEEE article, you will
see that it is full of them (ie: According to [7]...... or APA style:
according to Gao(2007)....
3. Wikipedias are not acceptable References/Sources.
POLICY STATEMENTS
Academic Integrity Statement (from Office of Judicial Affairs)
 The University’s Academic Integrity Policy requires you to be honest in all your
academic course work. Faculty are required to report all infractions to the Office of
Judicial Affairs. The policy on academic integrity can be found at
http://www2.sjsu.edu/senate/S04-12.pdf .
 Collaboration with fellow students or any other people on any of the examinations or
individual projects is prohibited, and all violators will receive an F as the course
grade, regardless of the roles as an assistance seeker or as an assistance provider.
 Plagiarism, as defined on Judicial Affairs website at
http://www2.sjsu.edu/senate/plagarismpolicies.htm, will not be tolerated.
 If you would like to include in your paper any material you have submitted, or plan to
submit, for another class, please note that SJSU’s Academic Integrity policy S04-12
requires approval by instructors.
University Policies and Procedures
You are responsible for understanding the policies and procedures about add/drops,
academic renewal, withdrawal, etc. Details can be found at
http://www2.sjsu.edu/senate/S04-12.pdf
Office Hours
Mondays: 5-6PM or by appointment (Please email for confirmation).
TENTATIVE COURSE CALENDAR
Class
1
Date
1/28
Chapter
Whitten&
Bentley
Chapter 3
Whitten&
Bentley
Chapter 4
Whitten &
Bentley
Chapter 5
Whitten &
Bentley
Chapter 6
Whitten &
Bentley
Chapter 7
Whitten &
Bentley
Chapter 8
2
2/4
3
2/11
4
2/18
5
2/25
6
3/4
7
8
9
10
3/11
3/18
3/25
4/1
11
4/8
12
4/15
13
4/22
Computer
Networking
14
4/29
Computer
Networking
15
5/6
Computer
Computer
Networking
Computer
Networking
Computer
Networking
Topics
Introduction, Information Systems Development,
Fundamental underlying principles, CMM for quality
management, 10 principles for sys development.
Project Management: Definitions, Process Tools, PERT vs.
Gant, Project Management 8 activities.
System Analysis: Scope definition, problem analysis,
requirements analysis, decision analysis phases.
Project Presentations.
Functional vs nonfunctional requirements, Ishikawa (fishbone)
diagram, Fact-Finding Techniques and Requirements Discovery
Project Presentations
Use-case modeling, steps for preparing a use-case model.
Project Presentations
Data Modeling, DBs, Define data modeling and explain its
benefits, basic concepts and constructs of a data model, entity
relationship data model.
Project Presentations
Mid-term Exam
No Class
Spring Recess (March 26-30, 2012).
Intro to Networking
Project Presentations
Computer Communications and Network Fundamental
Project Presentations
Computer Communications and Network Fundamental
Project Presentations
Reports Due Date
Network Fundamental, network management fundamentals,
formation of information needs, ERP, Big Data, Cloud
Computing, and IoT.
Project Presentations
Network Fundamental, network management fundamentals,
formation of information needs, ERP, Big Data, Cloud
Computing, and IoT.
Project Presentations
Network Fundamental, network management fundamentals,
Networking
16
17
5/13
5/20
Monday
formation of information needs, ERP, Big Data, Cloud
Computing, and IoT.
Project Presentations
Course Review
Final Exam (5:15-7:30 PM)