The MS/EC program is intended to educate high-end IT professionals with an interest in enterprise computing. You will learn about enterprise computing from both the reliability and the security points of view. You will learn about enterprise computing "in the large," including enterprise application integration and service oriented architectures (SOA). You will build on skills learned in courses in database and distributed systems programming for enterprise computing, to learn how to design and develop complex intra-enterprise and inter-enterprise applications. This will involve tools and methods for formalizing data schemas and workflows, and automating business processes. You will learn about the organization of server backends for enterprise computing, and in particular the use of virtualized server architectures for efficient resource management. You will learn about the interactions between new enterprise applications and legacy mainframe applications, and support for their integration through Web services and connector architectures. You will gain experience with modern development environments for these systems. Depending on your interests, you may specialize further in security and privacy aspects of enterprise applications, including the incorporation of security and privacy measures into business processes in order to comply with organizational and legislative requirements. The MS/EC program includes courses that covers technical, management and legal aspects of enterprise security and privacy, including security governance, privacy concerns and best practices for secure systems.

Programs

• Graduate Certificate in Enterprise Computing.
• Master of Science in Enterprise Computing.

Further Information

• Program Director: Dominic Duggan
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Courses in the Graduate Certificate in Enterprise Computing Program

The graduate certificate program provides a path for obtaining basic enterprise computing skills. The sequence starts with a course, CS 526 Enterprise Computing, on the basics of enterprise computing, with a focus on virtualized architectures and mainframe platforms. The course includes hands-on experience with deploying applications on mainframe computers. CS 549 Distributed Systems provides basic skills in developing distributed applications using modern middleware and Web services. CS 548 Engineering of Enterprise Software Systems covers the software engineering aspects of distributed applications, with an emphasis on service oriented architecture and inter-enterprise applications. CS 561 provides an introduction to relational database management systems and SQL.

Required Courses

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Courses in the Master of Science in Enterprise Computing Program

Required Courses

The required courses for the M.S. in Enterprise Computing are the same as the required courses for the Graduate Certificate program, above.

Elective Courses

You must choose an additional six courses for your MS/EC study plan. At least three of these courses must be Computer Science courses i.e., with the CS prefix. Up to three of the courses can be from any other discipline, including Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management and Information Systems, with the approval of the program director. Below are some suggested electives.

* If you take the three electives marked below with an asterisk, then you will in addition be eligible to receive a Graduate Certificate in Enterprise Security and Information Assurance.

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