Computer Science and Engineering
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering
395 Dreese Labs
2015 Neil Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1210
614-292-5813
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/
Degrees offered
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
- Master of Science
- Doctor of Philosophy
Undergraduate program
This program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, Maryland 21202-4012; - telephone: 410-347-7700.
This program is also accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, Maryland 21202-4012; - telephone 410-347-7700
Program educational objectives
- Graduates will have a thorough grounding in the key principles and practices of computing, and will have applied their software development skills and knowledge of foundational principles to the design and implementation of practical systems consisting of software and/or hardware components to meet customer requirements.
- Graduates will have an understanding of additional engineering principles, and the mathematical and scientific concepts that underlie them, and will have applied this understanding, as appropriate, in analyzing real-world problems and designing suitable solutions.
- Graduates will have an understanding of human and social issues, and will be in the process of becoming informed and involved members of their communities, and responsible engineering and computing professionals.
- Graduates will have appropriate interaction and organizational skills, and will be routinely using and further developing these skills in their professional careers.
- Graduates will be successfully employed in the computing profession, and will be actively engaged in learning, understanding, and applying new ideas and technologies as the field evolves; or will have successfully completed, or be actively pursuing, graduate studies in computing.
The undergraduate program in the College of Engineering leads to the degree Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering. It is designed for the student who seeks a strong program in computer science and engineering which is based on a solid foundation in science and engineering plus computer-related mathematics. By appropriate choice of technical electives, the student may specialize in one of the following fields: software systems, hardware-software systems, or information systems.
The degree program in engineering is designed to prepare students for careers as practicing engineers in industry. Students with other objectives may wish to consider the department's programs in the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences. The Fisher College of Business also offers an information system concentration. All CSE students take basic courses in mathematics, science, and engineering. Core courses in computer science and engineering include programming and software development, computer architecture, data structures, operating systems, programming languages, theory of computation, databases and file design, and numerical methods. Several options are available to allow a student to choose an appropriate area of specialization:
Software systems
This option provides a general, broad-based overview of the computing field. The electives within this option may also be tailored to emphasize computer graphics, artificial intelligence, distributed computing, operating systems, databases, software design, etc. The software systems option prepares students for positions as general applications programmers and systems analysts.
Hardware-software systems
This option includes courses from electrical engineering as well as from computer science. This option emphasizes computer architecture, providing the student with a letter understanding of the interface between a system's software and the hardware that it controls. It prepares students for positions as systems programmers and applications programmers for embedded systems (i.e., computers that control or provide intelligence in larger systems, such as aircraft navigation systems, robotics, etc.).
Information systems
This option combines a rigorous curriculum in computer science with a general introduction to business topics. It places particular emphasis upon database systems and the design and implementation of information processing systems. The information systems option prepares students for positions as applications programmers and systems analysts in a business environment.
Technical Electives
The technical electives are to be chosen from one of the above options. They must be approved by a faculty adviser.
Computing facilities
Computing facilities available to computer and information science students at the university are among the best in the U.S. The computing facilities available to support the faculty, staff, and students of CSE consist of general-purpose instructional computers and specialized research laboratories. The Department offers several operating system platforms from which to work. The Windows platform running on Dell servers are accessed via thin-client terminals; these are used in introductory CSE courses. Thin-client terminals attached to Sun servers run the UNIX platform Sun Solaris for the intermediate and advanced courses. The Department also has access to other University computing resources such as large IBM mainframes and Cray supercomputers.
Acceptance to major
Entry courses: CSE 321 and 360
Acceptance to the computer science and engineering major is competitive and by formal application to students who have a minimum of 25 credit hours at Ohio State and the competitive cumulative point hour at the time of admissions. The following coursework must be satisfied as well as having satisfied the cumulative point hour requirement: Math 151, 152; CSE 221,222 (C- or better required); Chemistry 121 and Physics 131 or Physics 131 and 132; English 110.
Other programs
The undergraduate programs in the College of Arts and Sciences lead to the degree Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts with a major in computer and information science. Details of these programs can be found at the College of the Arts and Sciences web site. The Fisher College of Business offers a concentration in information systems which lead to the degree Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Details of this program are at the Fisher College of Business web site.