Graduate Programs in Enterprise and Cloud Computing

The enterprise and cloud computing programs are intended to educate high-end IT professionals with an interest in developing and deploying enterprise applications in the cloud, including security aspects of these applications and their interaction with mobile 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, domain driven design, service oriented architecture (SOA) and event-driven architecture (EDA). You will learn about the use of cloud computing for outsourcing enterprise computing resources, and the use of virtualized server architectures for efficient resource management. You will build on skills learned in courses in distributed systems programming for enterprise computing, to learn how to design and develop complex intra-enterprise and inter-enterprise applications. These applications will be deployed in cloud environments, using principles such as REST for loosely coupled business interactions. The development of these applications will involve tools and methods for formalizing data schemas and workflows, and automating business processes. You will learn about mobile computing, on modern platforms such as Android, and the interaction between cloud and mobile computing, such as cloud-based versus peer-to-peer data sharing. 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. You will learn about security and privacy aspects of enterprise applications, including the challenges of outsourcing to the cloud, and the incorporation of security and privacy measures into business processes in order to comply with organizational and legislative requirements. The MS/ECC 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 Cloud Computing.
• Graduate Certificate in Enterprise Computing.
• Master of Science in Enterprise and Cloud Computing.

Further Information

• Program Director: Dominic Duggan
• Read the Program Director's ECC blog.
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Courses in the Graduate Certificate in Cloud Computing

The graduate certificate program provides a path for obtaining basic cloud computing skills. CS 549 Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing provides basic skills in developing distributed and cloud computing applications, including RESTful Web services and batch processing using MapReduce. CS 548 Engineering of Enterprise Software Systems covers the software engineering aspects of distributed applications, with an emphasis on service oriented architecture, REST and and event-driven architecture. CS 522 Mobile Systems and Applications covers design and development of mobile applications, using the Android platform for examples. CS 594 Enterprise and Cloud Security considers risk management and security engineering for enterprise applications, including for applications deployed in the cloud.

Required Courses

• CS 522  Mobile Systems and Applications
• CS 548  Engineering of Enterprise Software Systems
• CS 549  Distributed Systems
• CS 594  Enterprise Security and Information Assurance

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Courses in the Graduate Certificate in Enterprise Computing

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 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

• CS 526  Enterprise Computing
• CS 548  Engineering of Enterprise Software Systems
• CS 549  Distributed Systems
• CS 561  Database Management Systems

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Courses in the Master of Science in Enterprise Computing Program

Required Courses

• CS 522  Mobile Systems and Applications
• CS 526  Enterprise Computing
• CS 548  Engineering of Enterprise Software Systems
• CS 549  Distributed Systems
• CS 594  Enterprise Security and Information Assurance

Elective Courses

You must choose an additional five 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 two 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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