100-Level Courses
IT 101 : Cornerstone: Information Technology.
(3:2:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Planning and preparing for a successful career in information technology. Developing skills with computers, problem solving, studying, and time management. Comparing information technology to computer science, computer engineering, and information systems. |
| NOTE: | Fee. |
IT 199R : Academic Internship: Information Technology.
(1-3:ARR:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer |
| PREREQUISITE: | Consent of both department chair and cooperative education coordinator. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Work experience evaluated by supervisor and posted on student's transcript. |
200-Level Courses
IT 210A : Fundamentals of Web-Based Information Technology.
(2:3:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall Blk 1; Winter Blk 1 |
| PREREQUISITE: | C S 142 & IT 101 |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Web technologies, including operating systems, networking, database concepts, and tools from a Web development and infrastructure management perspective. Web systems integration and development projects. |
IT 210B : Fundamentals of Web-Based Information Technology.
(2:3:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall Blk 2; Winter Blk 2 |
| PREREQUISITE: | IT 210A |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Web technologies, including operating systems, networking, database concepts, and tools from a Web development and infrastructure management perspective. Web systems integration and development projects. |
IT 252 : Computer Architecture and Organization.
(3:2:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | EC EN 124; or C S 124; C S 235 or concurrent enrollment. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Principles of computer hardware and instruction set architecture. Subjects include: internal CPU organization and implementation, peripheral interconnect and IO systems, and low-level programming and security issues. |
300-Level Courses
IT 318 : Electronics, Computers, and Manufacturing.
(3:2:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | MATH 112; or MATH 119; Phscs 121; or Phscs 105 and 107. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Basics of electricity; behavior and manufacture of resistors, inductor, capacitors, transformers; motors; manufacture of transistors, ICs, MCMs, circuit boards. Computers; digital communications; networking. |
IT 327 : Digital Communications.
(4:3:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | MATH 112; Phscs 123 or concurrent enrollment. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Ohm's law, power, inductance, capacitance, reactance, impedance, resonance, transformers. Communication systems, wired and wireless. Bandwidth, modulation; Shannon's theorem, telecommunications. Network physical and data link layers (ISO/OSI model). Optics/Coax/Twisted pair; RS-232/Ethernet; Signals/Protocols/Packets; digital communication theory fundamentals. |
IT 344 : Operating Systems.
(3:2:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | C S 235, IT 210A, B, 252; or instructor's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Applying and using computer operating systems. Configuration, file systems, security, administration, network interfacing, multitasking, multiuser, device driver installation. Analyzing operating system performance. |
IT 347 : Computer Networks.
(3:2:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | IT 210A & IT 210B & STAT 201; C S 236 or concurrent enrollment. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Computer networks. Local and wide-area networking for enterprises and service providers. Workgroups/routers/hubs/switches; network server administration; Internet protocols and routing; security and privacy. |
IT 350 : Database Principles and Applications.
(3:2:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | C S 236 & IT 210A & IT 210B |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Database theory and architecture; data modeling; designing application databases. Query languages, data security, database applications on the Web.. |
IT 355 : Human-Computer Interface.
(3:2:4)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | IT 210A & IT 210B & TECH 213 & STAT 201 |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Interface design emphasizing human factors, performance analysis, and cognitive processing. Team-based projects include task analysis, usability studies, environment, interaction, training, and documentation procedures. |
IT 391R : Junior/Senior Seminar.
(.5:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Required four times during junior/senior years while in professional program. College Lecture and School of Technology Lecture attendance required. |
IT 399R : Academic Internship: Information Technology.
(1-6:0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer |
| PREREQUISITE: | Consent of both department chair and cooperative education coordinator. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Experience in industrial environment. Approved job function supervised by employer and electronics and information technology advisor. Formal technical report required. |
400-Level Courses
IT 441 : Embedded Computer Systems.
(3:2:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| PREREQUISITE: | IT 344 |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Real-time embedded systems development using microprocessors and microcontrollers. Multitasking, hardware/software interfacing, operating systems, and various CPU architectures. |
IT 443 : Broadband Communications.
(3:2:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| PREREQUISITE: | IT 327 |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Physical-layer communications over broadband media. Optical and radio frequency propagation and devices. Fiber optics. |
| NOTE: | Fee. |
IT 446 : Senior Project / Capstone 1.
(2:2:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| PREREQUISITE: | ENGL 316; All required 300-level information technology courses. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | IT senior project proposal and feasibility studies. Project management, teamwork principles, intellectual property, supplier interactions, identifying and using professional technical literature, oral and written presentations. |
IT 447 : Senior Projects/Capstone 2.
(3:1:5)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | IT 446 |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Senior project design and integration. Second class of two-course sequence. Implementing design. Project management, teamwork, and presentations. Fee. |
IT 461R : Current Topics in Information Technology.
(3:2:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| PREREQUISITE: | Instructor's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | In-depth analysis of current growth areas in information technology. Detailed discussion and lab experience of a few topics from faculty working in the field. |
IT 466 : Information Assurance and Security.
(3:2:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| PREREQUISITE: | IT 344 & IT 347 & IT 350 & STAT 201 |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Computer security principles. Incident prevention and management. Information assurance dimensions of availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality and non-repudiations to ensure transmission, storage, and processing of information. |
IT 492R : Special Problems in Information Technology.
(1-3:ARR:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer |
| PREREQUISITE: | ENGL 316; Informational technology senior standing and an approved project proposal. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Individual study in current topics of information technology. |
500-Level Graduate Courses (available to advanced undergraduates)
IT 529 : Advanced Networking.
(3:2:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| PREREQUISITE: | IT 344, 347; or equivalents. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Analyzing, selecting, configuring, monitoring, and managing of computer network equipment. SNMP-based monitoring and control in process of fault isolation and root cause analysis. |
IT 531 : Encryption and Compression.
(3:2:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | On Demand |
| PREREQUISITE: | C S 235 and Stat 201; or equivalents |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Encoding digital data for storage or network transmission using computers. Analyzing and applying algorithms for digital data encryption and compression. Current Web and multimedia standards. Lab emphasizing implementation. |
IT 548 : Mechatronics.
(3:2:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | On Demand |
| PREREQUISITE: | Instructor's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Synergistic application of mechanical devices, electronic controls, and system principles in design of products and manufacturing processes. Advanced applications of electronic instrumentation, control, and automation in manufacturing systems. |
IT 566 : Digital Forensics.
(3:2:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter On Demand |
| PREREQUISITE: | IT 466 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Fundamentals of digital forensics, legal issues, evidence, chain of custody, media analysis, incident response, corporate forensics, and network forensics. |