Department of Computer and Information Sciences

1. Department of Computer and Information Sciences OPEN HOUSE 2006

2. Excellent Faculty Diversity a Main Strength • Faculty are very diverse • Come from a variety of academic and industrial backgrounds including CS, Math, Chemistry, Social/Behavioral Sciences, Philosophy – a strength • Core faculty have been here for up to 30 years – very dedicated and love to teach • Few adjuncts; high quality

3. CS Department Alumni • Distinguished Alumni • Many successful alumni – both BS and MS • Many have gone on to successful careers in business and industry – from large corporations to new ventures…IBM, GE, ITT, CSC Corp, AT&T, Optelios; a number of have started their own businesses • Some have gone on to doctoral programs at, for example, Duke, UMass, Binghamton, USC, Stevens Institute of Technology, Northwestern, Syracuse

4. Many stay in the Utica/Rome area • Working with local companies such as PAR, Integrated Sensors, Niagara Mohawk, IITRI, Booz Allen, Capraro Technologies • Working at Information Institute of the Air Force at the former Griffiss Air Force Base; great contact for students, lots of interaction • Some have formed their own companies • Work experience includes internships

5. Why CS at SUNYIT? • Excellent learning environment • Low student/faculty ratios; among the best in SUNY or elsewhere • Section enrollment typically 15-30 with only a few larger • Largest department at SUNYIT; 11 full-time and a few adjuncts; • If you need or want attention, you get it (sometime, even if you don’t want)

6. Why CS at SUNYIT? • Students exposed to many advanced topics through: • Wide set of electives each semester • Graduate courses available to undergrads with good GPA • Joint BS/MS program – complete both degrees in a total of 4.5 to 5 years of full-time study

7. Academic Programs • Computer Science (BS) • Computer Information Systems (BS) • Computer Science (BS/MS) • Computer Science (MS)

8. Department of Computerand Information Science BS in CS BS in CIS RequiredCoursework ElectivesPackage Appropriately to easily create a specialization Solid and GeneralComputing and Inf. SystemsBackground + Minors in: • Accounting • Computer Science • Economics • Health Services Management • Marketing • Science Technology and Society • System Administration • Entertainment Computing • Data Security / Information Assurance • Modeling and Simulation • Scientific and Engineering Computing • Artificial Intelligence Solid CS Background

9. General Issues • Normal full-time load is 16 credits; 18 allowed without special permission • Consider registering for 18 credits; drop one or more courses if academic difficulty is encountered • Be attentive in first week for appropriate placement • Full-time status requires minimum of 12 credits; dropping below 12 jeopardizes full-time financial aid, and possibly health insurance

10. Mohawk Valley Consortium • Full-time students may take one course a semester at partner institutions (MVCC, HCCC, Hamilton, Utica College, Morrisville, Empire State) at no added tuition cost • Course must be applicable to student’s degree program • Course can not be offered on home campus during the same semester • Space available basis

11. General Education • SUNY-wide requirements (for all baccalaureate degrees) • Campus Requirements (applicable to all SUNYIT degrees) • Departmental Requirements (applicable to CS and CIS majors) • Minimum of one approved course in each category, and a total of not less than 30 credits

12. Communication Humanities Arts Social/Behavioral Sciences Finite or Discrete Math Calculus, Linear Algebra, or Statistics Laboratory Science Science Elective Foreign Language American History World History Other Civilizations On-Line Communication or Documentation General Education

13. Joint BS/MS Program • Requirements • 145 credits including 33 graduate credits • Must meet all specific course requirements for each degree • Twelve credits may be simultaneously applied to both degrees • Student may take CSC 500 which carries graduate credit and meets Finite/Discrete Math requirement • Two graduate courses are applied as advanced undergraduate electives • One graduate course is applied as an unrestricted undergraduate elective

14. BS/MS Program (cont’d) • Advantages • Immediate admission into a graduate program • 145 credits to complete MS vs. 124 for BS and 157 for both degrees • Reduced tuition costs • May be completed in three years for well prepared junior transfer students and five or less for entering freshmen

15. Odds and Ends • Labs are very current • Students have many opportunities for hands-on experience; labs continually updated • Four main labs currently used for teaching • Support for Windows XP/VISTA, Free BSD UNIX, Gentoo Linux, Mac OSX, and Solaris • All Microsoft software (except Office) available free to CS/IS majors

16. Co-ops and Internships • Co-op • Available as a course. Student may get up to 4 credits for CS related work during semester or summer • Students (generally with faculty help) locate paying jobs

17. The CS and CIS Curricula • Follow the joint guidelines and recommendations of ACM/IEEE CS • First year sequence common to both programs • CS 108 – Computing Fundamentals • CS 240 – Data Structures and Algorithms • Additional Core Course for CS • CS220 – Computer Organization

18. CS Program: Intermediate Courses • CS 249 – Object-Oriented Programming • CS 330 – Operating Systems and Networking • CS 350 – Information and Knowledge Management • CS 370 – Software Engineering

19. CS Program: Advanced Coursework • Advanced Electives (12 credits) • Three courses to be selected from advanced electives or graduate courses • See http://www.cs.sunyit.edu/ • Capstone Project (2 credits) • Many courses in Information Systems and information Technology available to CS majors for use as unrestricted elective credit

20. CIS Program: Intermediate Courses • IS310 – Hardware and Network Infrastructure • IS 320 – System Analysis and Design • IS 325 – Database Management Systems • IS 330 – Decision Support and Intelligent Systems Any Two Courses, One at 300 Level or Higher that Have One of the Following Prefixes: ACC, BUS, ECO, FIN, MGT, MKT

21. CIS: Advanced IS Electives • Twelve credits selected from • IS 305 – Applications Programming in COBOL • IS 315 – Networking of Information Systems • IS 340 – E-commerce • IS 470 – Database Programming • IS 490 – Selected Topics in IS • Selections also include about ten CS electives

22. CS 108 – Programming Fundamentals • Emphasis on structured programming • Currently taught in C • Equivalent courses elsewhere may be taught in C or C++, but not in Visual Basic. • Includes arrays and some discussion of pointers and lists

23. CS 240 – Data Structures and Algorithms • May be taught in either Java or C++; check section for language • Fundamental data structures • Stacks • Queues • Linked Lists • Hash Tables • Trees • Graphs • Prerequisites: Object Oriented Programming, Finite/Discrete Math

24. CS 249 – Object Oriented Programming • Currently taught in Java • Equivalent course may have been taught in C++ • Prerequisites are Fundamentals and Finite Math

25. CS Program – Core Course Flowchart

26. CIS Program: Core Course Flowchart