To enroll in this degree and in the courses offered Fall 1999, students must first be admitted to the Graduate School of Texas Tech University.  Most distance education students enroll in the Master of Engineering degree program, designed specifically for engineers working in industry.  More details about the distance education Master of Engineering degree program, and information about applying to the Graduate School at Texas Tech, appear at: http://www.ain.coe.ttu.edu

All courses will be taught simultaneously to distance and on-campus students during these semesters.  The course material will be available in the asynchronous mode to both groups.  Courses are expected to consist of 1 ½ to 2 ½ hours of video per week plus project work, submitted over the Internet.  Courses are expected to involve threaded e-mail discussion and chat rooms.  The videos will be provided as streaming video over the Web. 

Equipment needed to view: A standard Web browser running under any popular operating system (Windows, UNIX, Macintosh).

NOTE: Those students needing an alternate viewing method due to internal company firewall issues, please contact the Alliance for Higher Education/Lucky Goebel at luckyg@allianceedu.org or (972) 713-8170.

The following courses in software engineering are scheduled to be taught via Web-assisted video during the next academic year:

Fall 1999:
CS 5355 Real-Time and Time Sharing Systems
CS 5362 Object Oriented systems Development 
CS 5364 Software Metrics

Spring 2000
CS 5360 Software Construction and Evolution
CS 5363 Software Project Management

Any of the courses listed above can apply toward satisfying the requirements for the Software Engineering track of the Master of Engineering degree (36 hours total) at Texas Tech.

The remaining 21 hours can be taken from graduate courses of interest to the student as listed in the College of Engineering Distance Education Catalog including individual study or special problem courses.  As many as 18 of these hours may be transferred, after review and approval by the Graduate Advisor for the Master of Engineering degree, from institutions other than Texas Tech.

For more degree information, contact  Dr. Marion Hagler at (806) 742-3451.

SPRING 2000 COURSE LISTINGS
 

CS 5355
REAL TIME AND TIME SHARING SYSTEMS
Professor William M. Marcy

Study of the functional needs in real time and time sharing systems.  Basic techniques and display concepts, random-access fields, computer networks, simultaneous operations, multiprogramming, and multiprocessing.
PREREQUISITES:  CS 2350 Computer Organization and Assembly Language Programming (undergraduate course); CS 3352 Introduction to Systems Programming (undergraduate course); CS 5364 Software Metrics (graduate course).  Without these prerequisites or their equivalent, consent of the instructor is necessary for enrollment.
TIME:  TBA

CS 5363
SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Professor Susan A. Mengel

Methodologies for the management of projects involving software components.  The larger context of systems development is studied, along with business management and engineering principles. Technical as well as people issues are explored.
PREREQUISITES:  CS 2365 Software Engineering (undergraduate course).  Without this prerequisite or its equivalent, consent of the instructor is necessary for enrollment.
TIME:  TBA

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