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Interdisciplinary Programs
Ph.D. in Information Systems Engineering
Course Requirements
The following is a partial course list, clustered into specializations. Many of the courses are regularly offered at the master's level.

Required Courses


ECE 576: Information Engineering
ENGR 798: Seminar
ENGR 799: Doctoral Dissertation

Concentration 1: Information Management and Knowledge Engineering


CIS 556: Database Systems
CIS 562: Web Information Systems
CIS 564/IMSE 570: Principles of Organizational Information Systems
CIS 586: Advanced Database Systems
CIS 633: Semi-Structured Data Management (under development)
CIS 634: The Semantic Web (under development)
CIS 635/ECE 677: Multimedia Data Management (under development)
CIS 637: Information Retrieval (under development)
IMSE 554: Management Information Systems
IMSE 5715: Modeling of Integrated Information Systems

Concentration 2: Computer Networks and Advanced Computer Architecture


CIS 527: Computer Networks
CIS 537: Advanced Computer Networks
CIS 544: Computer and Network Security
CIS 547: Topics in Networking
CIS 571: Web Services: Concepts, Architectures, and Applications
CIS 628: Distributed Computing Middleware (under development)
ECE 554: Embedded Systems
ECE 570: Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
ECE 650: Information Theory in Electrical Communication
ECE 670: High-Speed and Advanced Networks (under development)
ECE 675: Computer Architecture II
ECE 676: Advanced Topics in Multimedia Systems (under development)

Concentration 3: Intelligent Systems


CIS 568/ECE 537: Data Mining
CIS 555/IMSE 555: Decision Support and Expert Systems
CIS 577: Software User Interface Design
CIS 579: Artificial Intelligence
ECE 552: Fuzzy Systems
ECE 579: Intelligent Systems
ECE 583: Neural Networks
ECE 585: Pattern Recognition
ECE 586: Digital Image Processing
ECE 588: Applied Machine Vision
ECE 678: Advanced Topics in Intelligent Systems (under development)
ECE 679: Advanced Topics in Machine Learning (under development)
IMSE 538: Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

Concentration 4: Graphics and Visualization


CIS 551: Advanced Computer Graphics
CIS 552: Computer Animation
CIS 571: Web Services: Concepts, Architectures, and Applications
CIS 654: Virtual Reality (under development)
ECE 574: Advanced Software Techniques in Engineering Applications
ECE 577: Engineering in Virtual Worlds

Concentration 5: Supply Chain Modeling, Systems Support, and Security


IMSE 506: Stochastic Models
IMSE 538: Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
IMSE 5585: Electronic Commerce
IMSE 5655: Supply Chain Management
IMSE 574: IS Based Production Planning and Control
IMSE 579: Software Integrated Manufacturing and Logistics Management

Other Graduate Courses


MATH 504: Dynamical Systems
MATH 513: Linear Algebra
MATH 514: Numerical Solutions to Partial Differential Equations
MATH 516: Partial Differential Equations
MATH 5055: Integral Equations
MATH 592: Topology