2009-10 Technical Complementaries

TECHNICAL COMPLEMENTARY COURSES - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROGRAM

Students following the Software Engineering program should take 12-14 credits, of which 6 credits must be from list A and 6-8 credits from list B. It is possible that not all the courses listed will be offered in any given year. Please refer to the up-to-date course assignments before selecting any course. Permission will not be granted to take Technical Complementary courses that are not on the list.

Technical Complementaries - List A

ECSE 529 Course not available

COMP 330 Theory of Computation 3 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

Computer Science (Sci): Finite automata, regular languages, context-free languages, push-down automata, models of computation, computability theory, undecidability, reduction techniques.

Offered by: Computer Science

3 hours
Prerequisite: COMP 251.

Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
Instructors
- Claude Crépeau

COMP 350 Numerical Computing 3 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

Computer Science (Sci): Computer representation of numbers, IEEE Standard for Floating Point Representation, computer arithmetic and rounding errors. Numerical stability. Matrix computations and software systems. Polynomial interpolation. Least-squares approximation. Iterative methods for solving a nonlinear equation. Discretization methods for integration and differential equations.

Offered by: Computer Science

3 hours
Prerequisites: MATH 222 and MATH 223 and one of: COMP 202, COMP 208, COMP 250; or equivalents.
Restrictions: Students cannot receive credit for both COMP 350 and MATH 317.

Terms
- Fall 2024
Instructors
- Xiao-Wen Chang

COMP 409 Concurrent Programming 3 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

Computer Science (Sci): Characteristics and utility of concurrent programs; formal methods for specification, verification and development of concurrent programs; communications, synchronization, resource allocation and management, coherency and integrity.

Offered by: Computer Science

3 hours
Prerequisites: COMP 251, COMP 302, and COMP 310 or ECSE 427

Terms
- Winter 2025
Instructors
- Clark Verbrugge

COMP 424 Artificial Intelligence 3 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

Computer Science (Sci): Introduction to search methods. Knowledge representation using logic and probability. Planning and decision making under uncertainty. Introduction to machine learning.

Offered by: Computer Science

3 hours
Prerequisites: (COMP 206 or ECSE 321), MATH 323 or equivalent and COMP 251.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECSE 526.

Terms
- Fall 2024
Instructors
- David P Meger

COMP 520 Compiler Design 4 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

Computer Science (Sci): The structure of a compiler. Lexical analysis. Parsing techniques. Syntax directed translation. Run-time implementation of various programming language constructs. Introduction to code generation for an idealized machine. Students will implement parts of a compiler.

Offered by: Computer Science

3 hours, 1 hour consultation
Prerequisites: COMP 273 and COMP 302

Terms
- Winter 2025
Instructors
- Christophe Dubach

COMP 566 Discrete Optimization 1 3 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

Computer Science (Sci): Use of computer in solving problems in discrete optimization. Linear programming and extensions. Network simplex method. Applications of linear programming. Vertex enumeration. Geometry of linear programming. Implementation issues and robustness. Students will do a project on an application of their choice.

Offered by: Computer Science

3 hours
Prerequisites: COMP 360 and MATH 223

Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

COMP 575 Course not available

Technical Complementaries - List B

ECSE 323 Course not available

ECSE 404 Control Systems 3 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

Electrical Engineering: Modelling and simulation of control systems; basic concepts of linear systems; open and closed loop control; classical design of controllers - specifications in the step response and the frequency domain; state space design of controllers - pole placement and LQR; sampled data systems.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

(3-1-5)
Corequisite: ECSE 304 or ECSE 306

Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

ECSE 411 Course not available

ECSE 412 Discrete TimeSignal Processing 3 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

Electrical Engineering: Discrete-time signals and systems; Fourier and Z-transform analysis techniques, the discrete Fourier transform; elements of FIR and IIR filter design, filter structures; FFT techniques for high speed convolution; quantization effects.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

(3-2-4)
Prerequisite(s): ECSE 206 or ECSE 304 or ECSE 306.
Tutorials assigned by instructor.

Terms
- Fall 2024
Instructors
- Benoit Champagne

ECSE 413 Course not available

ECSE 414 Course not available

COMP 535 Computer Networks 4 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

Computer Science (Sci): Fundamental design principles, elements, and protocols of computer networks, focusing on the current Internet. Topics include: layered architecture, direct link networks, switching and forwarding, bridge routing, congestion control, end-to-end protocols application of DNS, HTTP, P2P, fair queuing, performance modeling and analysis.

Offered by: Computer Science

3 hours
Prerequisite: COMP 310 or ECSE 427

Terms
- Winter 2025
Instructors
- Mona E Elsaadawy

ECSE 421 Embedded Systems 3 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

Electrical Engineering: Definition, structure and properties of embedded systems. Real-time programming: interrupts, latency, context, re-entrancy, thread and process models. Microcontroller and DSP architectures, I/O systems, timing and event management. Real-time kernels and services. Techniques for development, debugging and verification. Techniques for limited resource environments. Networking for distributed systems.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

(3-1-5)
Prerequisites: ECSE 324

Terms
- Winter 2025
Instructors
- Jeremy Cooperstock

ECSE 422 Fault Tolerant Computing 3 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

Electrical Engineering: Introduction to fault-tolerant systems. Fault-tolerance techniques through hardware, software, information and time redundancy. Failure classification, failure semantics, failure masking. Exception handling: detection, recovery, masking and propagation, termination vs. resumption. Reliable storage, reliable communication. Process groups, synchronous and asynchronous group membership and broadcast services. Automatic redundancy management. Case studies.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

(3-1-5)
Prerequisites: ECSE 324 and (ECSE 250 or COMP 250)

Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

ECSE 424 Human-Computer Interaction 3 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

Electrical Engineering: The course highlights human-computer interaction strategies from an engineering perspective. Topics include user interfaces, novel paradigms in human-computer interaction, affordances, ecological interface design, ubiquitous computing and computer-supported cooperative work. Attention will be paid to issues of safety, usability, and performance.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

(3-4-2)
Prerequisites: (ECSE 324 and ECSE 250) or (ECSE 324 and COMP 250) or (COMP 251 and COMP 273)

Terms
- Fall 2024
Instructors
- Jeremy Cooperstock

ECSE 425 Computer Architecture 3 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

Electrical Engineering: Trends in technology. CISC vs. RISC architectures. Pipelining. Instruction level parallelism. Data and Control Hazards. Static prediction. Exceptions. Dependencies. Loop level paralleism. Dynamic scheduling, branch prediction. Branch target buffers. Superscalar and N-issue machines. VLIW. ILP techniques. Cache analysis and design. Interleaved and virtual memory. TLB translations and caches.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

(3-1-5)
Prerequisites: ECSE 324
Tutorials assigned by instructor.

Terms
- Winter 2025
Instructors
- Amin Emad

ECSE 426 Microprocessor Systems 3 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

Electrical Engineering: Introduction to current microprocessors, their architecture, programming, interfacing and operating systems. The course includes lectures, use of crossassemblers, and simulators as well as laboratory experiments on actual microprocessor hardware.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

(1-5-3)
Prerequisites: (CCOM 206 or WCOM 206) and ECSE 323.
This course may be counted as a technical complementary or a lab complementary.
Limited Enrolment (50)
Lab hours assigned by instructor.

Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

COMP 573 Course not available

ECSE 504 Course not available

ECSE 530 Course not available

ECSE 532 Computer Graphics 4 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

Electrical Engineering: Fundamental mathematical, algorithmic and representational issues in computer graphics: overview of graphics pipeline, homogeneous coordinates, projective transformations, line-drawing and rasterization, hidden surface removal, surface modelling (quadrics, bicubics, meshes), rendering (lighting, reflectance models, ray tracing, texture mapping), compositing colour perception, and other selected topics.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

(3-0-9)
Prerequisite: ECSE 324

Terms
- Fall 2024
Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

COMP 557 Fundamentals of Comp. Graphics 4 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

Computer Science (Sci): Fundamental mathematical, algorithmic and representational issues in computer graphics: overview of graphics pipeline, homogeneous coordinates, projective transformations, line-drawing and rasterization, hidden surface removal, surface modelling (quadrics, bicubics, meshes), rendering (lighting, reflectance models, ray tracing, texture mapping), compositing colour perception, and other selected topics.

Offered by: Computer Science

3 hours
Prerequisite: MATH 222, MATH 223, COMP 250, COMP 206

Terms
- Fall 2024
Instructors
- Paul Kry

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TECHNICAL COMPLEMENTARY COURSES - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROGRAM

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