Special Topics and Advanced Courses Computer Science
Computer Engineering
Electrical Engineering

Fall 2008

The following is a selection of special topics courses and advanced courses to be be offered by the UMBC CSEE Department for the Fall 2008 semester. Some are cross listed with other departments and programs and some are offered for both undergraduate and graduate credit. Undergraduates can always enroll in a graduate course with the permission of the instructor. For more information on the content, scope or expected workload for any of these courses, please contact the instructor.

CMSC 491/691V Electronic Voting Systems (3 credits)

MW, 11:00 - 11:50a.m.

A. Sherman

Selected recent research topics in electronic voting systems, with special emphasis on threats and countermeasures. This course will study the security and privacy, reliability, verifiability, auditability, transparency, complexity, cost, usability, and accessibility to the disabled of current, past, and future voting technologies. Technologies include Premier (formally Diebold), Sequoia, ES&S, VoteHere, Populex, Scytl, Democracy Systems, Ted Selker’s audio system, Punchscan, Scantegrity, and Three-Ballot.  This course will also examine current standards, policies, and laws dealing with electronic voting. Required work includes presenting research papers, answering questions about assigned papers, and carrying out and presenting an original research project. Prerequisites: Junior, senior, or graduate status, or permission of instructor.  Students from related fields are welcome, including students from Information Systems, Policy Science, and Mathematics.

CMSC 691G Computer Graphics for Games (1-3 credits)

MW, 7:10 - 8:25p.m.

D. Baker

This course is an introduction to some of the computer graphics methods commonly used in 3D computer games. Computer graphics encompasses a wide variety of algorithms and techinques.

This course is similar in style t and scope to CMSC 635/Advanced Computer Graphics, but uses computer games as a focus and motivation to explore a different set of graphics algorithms.

Co-requisites: CMSC 435/634.

CMSC 691S Service Oriented Computing (3 credits)

TUTH, 5:30 - 6:45p.m.

M. Halem

This course addresses the concepts and techinques of service-oriented architechrues (SOA) with a focus on web service computing applications arising in collaborative scince, engineering and commerce. This course will introduce the basic web services standards such as XML, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL for invoking autonomic computer to computer interactions.

Prerequisites: CMSC 421, CMSC 341.