7 courses

• CSYE 7280: User Experience Design & Testing (4 credits): In this course, you’ll learn how to integrate user experience concepts and methodologies into your web design projects. You’ll analyze case studies, and develop interview techniques to help uncover and prioritize user requirements and perspectives. By using quality assurance and usability testing, you’ll learn to implement validation and user-acceptance testing and approvals, and use wireframes and user scenarios to drive the creative design process. Through these processes, you’ll build the UX skill sets to make better decisions when designing contemporary websites to meet user needs.

• INFO 6150: Web Design & User Experience Engineering (4 credits): In this course, you’ll learn how to integrate user experience engineering with the conceptual and technical aspects of web design, meeting web standards and best practices. By studying fundamental concepts, techniques, practices, work flows and tools associated with the practice of user-experience design in Web interfaces, you’ll learn to create useful, user-friendly websites that are easily navigated and meet the needs of the site’s owners and users. You’ll pull together a detailed overview of how design aspects such as typography, color theory and composition, responsive design, CSS3 concepts, basic scripting and JavaScript libraries interact to create functional, effective and visually appealing websites. Upon completion, this course will have provided you with a working knowledge of the core principles of information architecture, usability, marketing hierarchy and user experience.

• INFO 6245: Planning & Managing Info. Systems Dev. (4 credits): This course will teach you a range of methodologies and techniques to build, integrate and manage information systems within wider organizational settings. You’ll gain an overview of the most popular IS needs assessment methods, including portfolio analysis, stage assessment, business systems planning and the Alloway survey technique. You’ll use a variety of real world case studies from the Project Management Institute’s PMBOK and Harvard Business School, to build your understanding of practical IS planning and management. You’ll also use a generic application development and project planning methodology as a model to aid your planning of a prototype project. Topics covered include: Utilities IS strategic plan prioritization techniques of business goal alignment, Architectural compatibility, Cost/benefit and risk analysis to demonstrate how businesses match needs to budgetary constraints.

• INFO 7245. Agile Software Development. (4 credits): In this course, you’ll learn how to apply agile and adaptive incremental methodologies to the software development life cycle (SDLC). Focusing on the management and evolution of software systems, you’ll explore software project planning all the way from requirements gathering to release, using hands-on agile methodologies. You’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of topics such as maintainability, including software risk analysis and project retrospectives, process models, (including the capability maturity model) their configuration management and practical implementation.

• INFO 7260 Business Process Engineering (4 credits): Addresses the question of how to understand and specify the flow of work responsibility and movement of information throughout the enterprise. For businesses to maximize the benefits of technology, they must transform their ad-hoc and often poorly defined ways of doing things to formal business processes. Analyzes the specification and implementation of complex information systems that integrate well into core business operations. Offers students an opportunity to learn how to use agile process specification techniques, dynamic process execution, and real-time measurement and reporting to support continuous business improvement and change.

• DAMG 6210 Data Management and Database Design (4 credits): Studies design of information systems from a data perspective for engineering and business applications; data modeling, including entity-relationship (E-R) and object approaches; user-centric information requirements and data sharing; fundamental concepts of database management systems (DBMS) and their applications; alternative data models, with emphasis on relational design; SQL; data normalization; data-driven application design for personal computer, server-based, enterprise-wide, and Internet databases; and distributed data applications.

• INFO 6205 Program Structure and Algorithms (4 credits): Presents data structures and related algorithms, beginning with a brief review of dynamic memory allocation. Discusses the fundamental data structures in detail, including the abstract representation, supporting algorithms, and implementation methods. Focuses on understanding the application of the abstract data structure and the circumstances that affect implementation decisions. Covers lists, stacks, queues, trees, hash tables, and graphs. Covers recursion and searching and sorting algorithms in detail. Emphasizes data abstraction and encapsulation in code design. Explores external storage structures, time permitting. Please note: This course will not be offered in Fall 2024