Motions for Permanent
Undergraduate Course Numbers
Brian L. Evans
On Behalf of the ECE Curriculum Committee
September 21, 2015
Motion #1 Part 1
EE 312H Software Design and Impl. I
Basic problem solving, design and implementation techniques
for imperative programming; structured programming in the
C/C++ language; programming idioms; introduction to
software design principles, including modularity, coupling and
cohesion; introduction to software engineering tools;
elementary data structures; asymptotic analysis.
Meets for three lecture hours and one lab hour each week.
Electrical Engineering 302 and 302H may not both be
counted.
Prerequisite: The following coursework with a grade of at
least B: Biomedical Engineering 303 or Electrical Engineering
306, and Electrical Engineering 319K.
Motion #1 Part 2
Resulting Pre-requisite Changes
• EE 422C Software Design and Implementation II
Prerequisite: Computer Science 312 or Electrical Engineering 312
or 312H with a grade of at least C-.
• EE 445L Embedded Systems Design Lab
Electrical Engineering 312 (or 312H) and 319K with a grade of at
least C- in each; Electrical Engineering 411 and 313, or
Biomedical Engineering 311 and 343, with a grade of at least Cin each; and credit with a grade of at least C- or registration for
Aerospace Engineering 333T, Biomedical Engineering 333T,
Chemical Engineering 333T, Civil Engineering 333T, Electrical
Engineering 333T, Mechanical Engineering 333T, or Petroleum
and Geosystems Engineering 333T.
Motion #1 Part 3
Resulting Pre-requisite Changes
• EE 445S Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Lab
Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 312 (or 312H) and 319K with
a grade of at least C- in each; Biomedical Engineering 343 or
Electrical Engineering 313 with a grade of at least C-; credit with
a grade of at least C- or registration for Aerospace Engineering
333T, Biomedical Engineering 333T, Chemical Engineering 333T,
Civil Engineering 333T, Electrical Engineering 333T, Mechanical
Engineering 333T, or Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
333T; and credit with a grade of at least C- or registration for
Biomedical Engineering 335 or Electrical Engineering 351K.
• EE 360C Algorithms
Prerequisite: Computer Science 312 or Electrical Engineering 312
or 312H with a grade of at least C-; and Computer Science 313K
or Mathematics 325K with a grade of at least C-.
Motion #1 Part 4
Resulting Pre-requisite Changes
• EE 460M Digital Systems Design Using HDL
Electrical Engineering 312 or 312H, 316 and 319K with a grade of
at least C- in each
• EE 460N Computer Architecture
Electrical Engineering 306, 312 (or 312H), and 319K or Computer
Science 312 (or 312H) and 429 (or 429H) with a grade of at least
C- in each
• EE 361Q Requirements Engineering
Prerequisite: Computer Science 312, 312H, or Electrical
Engineering 312, 312H, with a grade of at least C-.
Motion #2
EE 460D Operating Systems
Introductory course on operating system design and
implementation; the shell; process management and system
calls; memory management; thread management, scheduling,
synchronization and concurrency; file systems; input/output
systems; virtual machines; networking and security.
Meets for three lecture hours and one lab hour each week.
Electrical Engineering 460D and 379K (Topic: Operating Systems)
may not both be counted.
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing in the major; Electrical
Engineering 312 and 319K with a grade of at least C- in each; and
Mathematics 325K with a grade of at least C-.
Motion #3
EE 360Q Multicore Computing
Theoretical and practical aspects of designing multicore software systems;
programming constructs for concurrent computation, openMP, sequential
consistency, linearizability, lock-based synchronization, lock-free
synchronization, wait-free synchronization, consensus number, software
transactional memory, testing and debugging parallel programs, race
detection, concurrent data structures such as stacks, queues, linked lists, hash
tables and skiplists, formal models, temporal logic, reachability analysis, and
parallel graph algorithms.
Meets for three lecture hours each week
Electrical Engineering 360Q and 379K (Topic: Multicore Computing) may not
both be counted.
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing in the major, and Electrical Engineering
422C with a grade of at least C-.