Weekend Program MS in Computer Science with Specialization in Internet and Web Technologies

CSE Department Quick Statistics  Total students: 1,200  Graduate students: 300  Ph.D. students: 50  Faculty: 31 (25 professors and 6 instructors)  Degrees offered: B.Sc., M.Sc, and Ph.D in CS and CE  CS Program offered in: Boca, Davie, and Port St. Lucie  External research - about $4 million per year

New Academic Programs  Weekend MS Program in CS with Specialization in Web and Internet Technology First generation will graduate in March 2005  New Program in Port St. Lucie and Davie Information Engineering Technology, Fall 2005  Joint MS Program with College of Business in Computer Information Systems  International Programs Collaboration with Nirma University (India) Creating joint programs with other universities worldwide

Research  Total external funding $4+ million  Motorola research projects – One Pass to Production (iDEN, Jaime Borras)  Two Motorola service grants. Involve 40 students  Two Federal Earmark projects in “Secure Telecommunications” and “Coastline Security Technologies”  Several NSF research grants  Research projects and initiatives with local companies (Avocent, OfficeLock, Citrix,..)

Industry Relationships CSE Department has relationships with a number of local high-tech companies  Motorola  IBM  Avocent  Citrix  Tyco Systems  Siemens  CyberGuard  Graphic Security Systems Partner Community Radysis Corp. EDC OfficeLock PaceMicro Corp. Eisenworld BlueKey Wireless Systems eJamming

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Professional Weekend MS Program in Computer Science with Specialization in Internet and Web Technologies

Program Format  Students attend formal classes at FAU about one weekend per month (total 11 months)  The remaining instruction is delivered through the latest distance learning technologies (BlackBoard system)  The format allows participants from industry to pursue their academic goals while maintaining their employment

Program  11 courses (33 credit hours)  Software + Networking + Applications  Courses Internet Application Programming Data and Internet Security Computer Networking Queueing Theory and Networks (N) Mobile Networks Multimedia Systems and the Internet

Program  Courses (continue) Wireless Networks Databases and Web Data and Web Mining Advanced Internet Programming Ad Hoc Networks Distributed Systems Design Concurrency Modeling and Design Video Communications

Tuition Fee & Schedule  $660 per credit - Total $21,780  Fees include textbooks, materials, breakfast and lunch for every class session, and tutorial support, if necessary  Term starts: Spring 2005

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