1. Computer Science and Engineering at The University of North Texas

2. Why Study CSE? Some of the Highest Paid Degrees Consistently in the top 5

3. Over 30 Years of History Then… –Founded with 2 Faculty –Fall of 1971 Now… –Accredited program since 1986 –20 full time faculty –1100 Total Students

4. Computer Science and Computer Engineering Computer Engineering degree offered beginning in Fall of 2003 Computer Engineering Tracks –Architecture –Networking –VLSI –Real-Time and Embedded Systems

5. Computer Science or Computer Engineering More hardware oriented More physics and math courses –Cell phones and PDAs –Embedded Systems –Robotics –Biomedical Devices Not sure? Coursework in both degrees is very similar the first year, so take some time to explore and decide. More software oriented More programming courses –Game Programming –Information Security –Database Design –Artificial Intelligence

6. Degrees Offered Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering –131 Total Hours, 45 Advanced –22 Hours Mathematics Bachelor of Science in Computer Science –131 Total Hours, 45 Advanced –16 Hours in Mathematics Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science –128 Total Hours, 42 Advanced –6 Hours in Mathematics

7. Research, Teaching & Labs

8. Software Engineering Begins with CSCI 1110 / 1120 An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in the C++ Language –Representing the World through Software Objects –Programming With Intelligent Agents

9. Software Engineering Program Your Player’s Artificial Intelligence –When to Move, Attack, Drop Mines and Pillage the Enemy Base –All Programs Do Battle in a Tournament –Last Tank Alive Wins Prizes The CSCI 1040 Tank War

10. Wireless Computing & Security Investigating Security Vulnerabilities in Wireless Protocols –Impersonation –Eavesdropping –Location Attack –Batter Exhaustion Attack

11. Game Programming Laboratory for Recreational Computing (LARC) 1:15 AMGame Demo

12. Game Programming Create a game in collaboration with game art students Demo it before industry reps and judges –Game Company Recruiters –Ritual Entertainment –Terminal Reality

13. Natural Language Processing Language and Information Technologies (LIT Lab) –Machine Learning applied to NLP and Information Retrieval –Multi-lingual text processing –Story telling and understanding –Intelligent Information Retrieval –All the things needs

14. Computer Security Mission: –Increase general security awareness –Produce skilled security specialists –Conduct research to advance the state of the art in computer security Facilities include a safe environment for experimenting with potentially dangerous software

15. Computer Security UNT has received NSA certification for Computer Security courses Topics covered: –Cryptography –Intrusion Detection –Mobile Agent Security –E-Commerce Security

16. Computer Systems Research Lab –Uses advanced hardware and software design tools to achieve: Better performance Lower power requirements Equipment that is less expensive to manufacture Example: Speculative Execution –Trying to guess what the computer will need in the future to speed access Computer Architecture

17. Intelligent Memory Devices (IRAM) –Processing unit embedded in the memory chip Embedded Computing –New devices –Stringent power requirements

18. VDCL VLSI Design and CAD Lab Preparing the next generation tools to produce nanometer circuits Considering physical phenomena such as cross-talk and interconnect delays, while reducing power requirements. vdcl.cse.unt.edu

19. Other Research Areas Databases, Data Mining –Extracting exactly what you want from massive amounts of information Compilers Geometric Computing and Graphs –Geometric Computation Lab Networking –Network Research Lab

20. Research Work on State of the Art Projects as an Undergraduate –Assist the Faculty in Funded Research –Participate in Industry Co-operatives –CSCE 4890 Directed Study

21. Community

22. Friday Research Seminars Faculty and students presenting their research From UNT and beyond

23. Engineering Events Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology (BEST) Robotics Competition Engineering Week

24. Over 1,300 companies University-wide Well paid, topical, supervised positions Full time jobs offered to 75-80% of students with 2 or more semesters at a company On-site office at Research Park Cooperatives

25. Society Membership Society of Women Engineers IEEE Computer Society Association of Computing Machinery Eta Kappa Nu – Engineering Honors Upsilon Pi Epsilon – Computing Honors

26. Facilities

27. Research Park Create Your Game in Our New 553,000 Square Foot Research Park Home to the UNT College of Engineering

28. Research Park Computing Facilities Compaq Alpha Servers Sun Workstations 4-Node SUN Symmetric Multi-Processor Terabyte Storage system Mac and PC General Access Labs An ADM-3A 300 bits per second!

29. Research Park Library, General Access Labs, Dining Services, Study Areas Research Park Student Facilities

30. Research Park Shuttle Just North of UNT Campus in Denton

31. For more information: www.cs.unt.edu 940.565.2767