GPS Topics Course Listings and Descriptions

NOTE: Courses with a  symbol indicate a technical course. The section number designation (xx) for each Topics course changes each semester. All Topics courses are SEIS 785 - SEIS788 [= CSIS 685 - CSIS 688].

SEIS 78x-xx (= CSIS 68x-xx) Topics: Mobile Communications
SEIS 78x-xx (= CSIS 68x-xx) Topics: Enterprise Architecture and Development

SEIS 78x-xx (= CSIS 68x-xx)  Topics: Mobile Communications

More and more mobile devices will be seen in the future. The merging of classical voice and data transmission technologies and the extension of today's Internet applications onto mobile and wireless devices progresses rapidly in enterprise business environments. New applications and new mobile networks will bring ubiquitous multimedia computing to the mass market. Radio, personal digital assistants, laptops, and mobile phones will soon be converged with many different and new functions using wireless technology. This course will cover in depth many exciting aspects of mobile communications froma computer science point of view. Mobile communications and wireless transmission topics including signal, access protocol, network protocol, transport protocol, and application protocols will be discussed. The course will also provide a comprehensive coverage of Wireless LAN 802.11x, satellite system, and digital mobile communications systems such as CDMA, GSM, W-CDMA, and UMTS. New and important topics in wireless and mobile communications such as Security and Quality of Service will be addressed.

3 Credits
Prereq: SEIS 645T (= CSIS 625T) Computer and Network Communications

SEIS 78x-xx (=CSIS68x-xx)  Topics: Enterprise Architecture and Development

Enterprise applications that are used within an enterprise or across multiple enterprises. Deployment of enterprise applications in the context of an enterprise architecture have been helping companies to transform from an application landscape with many stove-pipe applications to one that enables them to have a 360 degree view of critical enterprise data (e.g. customer data), create and reuse enterprise assets, reduce redundancy and duplication of efforts across the enterprise, and make integration across the enterprise possible. This course covers both enterprise architecture and enterprise application development. This course will provide students with a theoretical and practical understanding of the subject areas plus technical and business opportunities and industry trends.

This course will cover:

1. Enterprise architecture frameworks: The Zachman Enterprise Framework, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) and Enterprise Architecture Cube methodology will be studied. This will help students understand how to define, communicate, implement, and govern enterprise architecture.
2. Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture (SOA): Define/study what Enterprise SOA is and how it can enable the realization of enterprise architecture. Course covers how to design and implement SOA.
3. Unique aspects of enterprise architecture and development: covers special considerations in software engineering including requirements engineering and development methodology.

3 Credits
Prereq: SEIS 610 (= CSIS 510) Software Engineering