Students learn about computer hardware and how it functions with an operating system. There is extensive hands-on use of word processing, spread sheet and data base management software in problem solving. The course includes a brief history of computers and the economic, psychological and social significance of computers. In this advanced course students learn the theoretical basis of data communications, networking systems and techniques. Its topics include data encoding and transmission, digital data communication techniques, data link control, multiplexing, network architectures and protocols and internetworking.
Students complete a networking term project.
This is an advanced course in computer architecture designed to expand the knowledge gained by students in the Principles of Digital Computers course. This course also allows detailed examination of one or two contemporary computers. This course prepares students to understand wireless networks and systems, and the underlying communications technologies that make them possible. The course covers descriptive material on wireless communications technologies, and important deployed and proposed wireless networks and systems. Wireless system performance and Quality of Service capabilities are addressed.