UAT-Online: Master of Science in Technology

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1 UAT-Online: Master of Science in Technology Program Description The University provides within its graduate program an intellectual atmosphere in which a wide range of multidisciplinary technology, research and innovation creations can thrive. The program is designed to allow graduate students to pursue advanced coursework in applied advancing technology disciplines. Students entering the program without undergraduate and/or professional experience within the discipline being studied will be evaluated for proficiencies in the discipline as part of the admissions process and may be required to complete additional coursework considered foundational to advanced study in the area. Within their disciplines, students incorporate and utilize specialized knowledge leading to the completion of a sophisticated example of their discipline, be it Artificial Life Programming, Information Security, Software Engineering Technology Studies. The program focuses on principles, methods and tools that can be used for creating high-quality applications that serve the needs of end users. Examples of completed works include the utilization of web services, analysis of computer forensic tools and the development of an e-book interface, to name a few. Graduates of the program not only understand advanced concepts and apply best practices to their field, but are leaders within the technology environment. The unique features of this graduate program appeal to candidates already engaged in knowledge creation within their fields and those seeking advancement in their industry where additional educational credentials may be required. The program is accelerated; it offers the flexibility to adapt quickly to the changes endemic to high technology. How UAT-Online Works UAT-Online s Master of Science in Technology degree program has been developed to give students the ability to focus their attention on each individual course needed to become successful in these rapidly growing fields. All curriculum is predetermined, giving students the ability to be objective and goal-focused. In addition to core and elective courses, students are also required to successfully present and defend a Thesis (applied or analytical) displaying their understanding and expertise in their selected areas of study. Master of Science in Technology Tracks Artificial Life Programming Information Security Software Engineering Technology Studies Master of Science Core Course Descriptions MSC525 Organizational Leadership and Group Dynamics The theoretical study of small-group behavior and the role of the individual personality functioning in organizational settings will be explored. Topics covered include situational, physical and personality factors as they relate to group formation, as well as group leadership and effectiveness. MSC530 Research Methods in Technology This course emphasizes developing research methodology used in specific industrial segments. Skills required for conducting alternative approaches to qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, hypotheses, models and theories will be developed. The student will develop competence in the use of statistical packages for various analytical approaches. MSC535 Project Management This course covers all phases of project management. This course focuses on successful completion of the project through each phase, from opportunity recognition and strategic integration to team building, tracking and budget management. Included is a survey of tools and best practices. Applications include projects of differing scope. Small entrepreneurial projects are compared to division-level and enterprise-wide projects. Learning activities include exploration of case studies, problemsolving exercises and role-playing. MSC545 Forecasting Emergent Technologies This course explores methods used in industry practice to identify and capture emerging technologies. Learning activities include exploration of case studies and trending within the current market. There will be a project for this course in a technology area of interest to the student. MSC550 Colloquium in Technology Weekly presentations on topics by faculty and leaders from industry, informally describing their views of the state of the art of technology as a field, their experience in the field and informal research talks.

2 Artificial Life Programming Artificial Life (A-Life) involves breaking old programming paradigms in the software engineering field and moving forward with paradigms that mirror life systems. A-Life programming is revising the traditional scientific approach by simulating biological phenomena in digital environments to model biology and to extend the concepts of computing power into distributed computing networks that operate using biological theory. The graduate studies in A-Life track is appropriate for students with undergraduate degrees in biology, biotechnology, computer science, cognitive science, database, game programming, mathematics or similar majors. Explore and create examples of how A-Life programming is used in game and system security application. Understand and develop programs modeling real life organisms and situations. Research and discuss ways in which creating biological processes through programming can change our environment. Perform data analysis, algorithm and model development, and computational design and implementation. Identify, solve and deliver solutions to problems in areas of prediction algorithms and outcomes analysis. Develop algorithms, strategies and methodologies using the latest technologies in neural networks, machine learning, statistical modeling, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence to support model generation for computationally intelligent software components. Prototype and optimize algorithms in a software language. Develop test cases and strategies to demonstrate correct algorithm performance. Develop computational performance measures and testing strategies to demonstrate satisfactory execution times when solving problems. MSE555 Computer Programming Applications This course is designed to introduce the graduate student to programming complete computer applications for a variety of uses. Students will be given a foundation in programming concepts and applied skills to enable them to serve on applied development teams and complete fundamental programming tasks. MSE557 Life Systems This course is designed to introduce the programmer interested in advanced applications to the concepts and systems associated with natural life. Overviews of systems in biology, chemistry, genetics and evolutionary development are covered as well as modern systems theory overall. MSE590 Introduction to Artificial Life This course addresses issues of modeling and synthesizing life-like agents. Students will learn the theoretical and mathematical modeling of life-as-it-couldbe to applications of artificial life techniques in agent and software systems. Topics can include simulation of real and imaginary life forms and their evolution, selforganization, emergent behaviors, swarm intelligence, evolutionary robotics, agent-based simulations, adaptive, complex and biologically inspired ecosystems. MSE575 Robotics and Autonomous Agents The course gives students a general introduction to the design and programming of artificial autonomous systems. The question "What is an autonomous system?" will be explored. Students will discuss the technical and social aspects of robots in society and cover computer science topics as related to robotics. This course is designed to give students an introduction to the field, historical background and developments, and current research topics, as well as a practical introduction to how to actually make a robot move, learn and adapt to novel situations. MSE576 Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems This course presents an overview of the field of evolutionary and adaptive systems. The historical and philosophical foundations of evolutionary thought are explored within the context of computer simulations that model these behaviors. Topics can include self-organizing systems, natural selection, dynamic systems, Boolean networks, cellular automata, genetic algorithms, evolutionary robotics and others. Students are expected to develop artificial life models. MSE592 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence This course introduces the state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence (AI). Students will learn knowledge representation, inference, expert systems, natural language processing, machine learning, neural networks and robots. Topics can include the following aspects of AI: representation and search (including the predicate calculus, and heuristic and stochastic search methods), representation and intelligence (including knowledgeintensive and strong methods), machine learning (symbolbased, connectionist, social and emergent), problem solving (automated reasoning and natural language), language and programming techniques.

3 Information Security This curriculum track is designed to provide the student with graduate-level experience in applying security to networks and electronic data. Students entering this program without documented and appropriate background in information technology and essentials of security will complete 9 additional credits in applied development curriculum. Analyze network traffic for possible signs of intrusions or attacks. Review information to respond to malicious or covert code and security incidents. Reconstruct portions of a corporate network to recover from security issues. Re-architect a corporate network to address perimeter security and deployment of a firewall. Perform vulnerability assessment and evaluation of an infrastructure. Address layered security and computer network defense needs and challenges. MSE512 Network and Hardware Technology students with the necessary applied hardware knowledge and background to effectively continue with their network security program. Implementing information technology components in enterprise requires specialized knowledge in the design and deployment of networking technologies. This course will provide the applied skills and knowledge to build a network infrastructure and successfully deploy necessary hardware components. A team-based approach will be used to develop a network design, select and implement technologies, perform testing, troubleshooting and problem resolution. MSE513 Applied Systems Administration students with the necessary applied operating systems knowledge and background to effectively continue with their network security program. This course provides the knowledge and skills necessary to install, configure and manage client and server operating systems in standalone and networked environments. Hands-on and theoretical topics include how to install, configure and manage network services and directory services. Current industry standards will be reviewed. MSE514 Applied Security Essentials students with the necessary applied security knowledge and background to effectively continue with their network security program. This course will help you to design and implement an effective security strategy in a corporate network environment. This course will cover anti-virus tools, security policies, password management, risk analysis, security policies, network communication vulnerabilities, enhancing security with cabling and network hardware, understanding different types of firewalls, packet filtering and NAT, setting up and securing a virtual private network and understanding hacker exploits. Current industry trends will be reviewed. MSE520 Federal INFOSEC Standards and Regulations This course is a guide through the world of Federal and International information security standards that guide the way organizations are doing business today. Research and analysis are conducted on how US security regulations vary from industry to industry, including those in healthcare, education, military, federal matters, utilities and financial matters. International security standards will also be reviewed in order to understand the impact of implementing appropriate information security mechanisms in a global organization. MSE535 Security Assessment Methodology This course will examine the NSA's recommendation methods for conducting an organizational security assessment, including coordination with the customer, defining critical information within the organization, and compiling findings based on regulations, legislation, and policies for which the organization is liable to comply. Students will be required to attend the course and then participate in an actual IAM-based assessment. The documentation created during this course can be added to the student's portfolio. MSE539 Network Defense and Countermeasures This course presents the advanced topics in the art of defense for network protection including designing a network defense and security policies. Research and implement firewalls, VPNs and Intrusion Detection Systems, honey pots and other behavior-blocking software for effective setup, design and configuration. This course will provide solutions for identifying, assessing and preventing external and internal threats to your network in a multi-vendor environment. MSE633 Applied Red Team Tactics This course will focus on the application of red teaming concepts to accomplish security reviews through penetration testing, social engineering and other adversarial roles. The foundation of the mindset of the network security adversary is presented to obtain a better understanding of what has to be accomplished to protect systems and networks. MSE634 Covert Channels This course delves into the technical realm of Covert Channels and how to communicate outside the design of many systems. The applied tools and applications of the trade are utilized to create various types of hidden communication in order to better understanding how those mechanisms operate. The tools include steganography, network-based channels, text-based channels and operating system channels.

4 Software Engineering This track furthers advanced application production in the field of software engineering. Students without application development backgrounds receive foundations in the principles of software engineering, while elective courses allow significant applied research. Within the process, students will produce applied research projects and theses representative of the synthesis and analysis that occurs at the graduate level. Architecture of enterprise business applications. Guiding technology migrations. Implementation of cost and quality programs. Understanding all phases of the software development process, from design through final delivery. Requirements, definition, analysis, design, development and testing of enterprise data and services. Collection and creation of interface systems requirements, support, integration, testing and installation. MSE505 Computer Programming MSE515 Database Foundations This course will cover database systems. Students will learn how to develop a useful database, how to express operations on the database and how database programming is combined with conventional programming. Students will learn how to build a DBMS, including such matters as query processing, transaction processing and organizing storage for efficient access. MSE555 Computer Programming Applications This course is designed to introduce the graduate student to programming complete computer applications for a variety of uses. Students will be given a foundation in programming concepts and applied skills to enable them to serve on applied development teams and complete fundamental programming tasks. MSE561.NET Framework Foundation This course discusses.net framework specific issues that are language independent. Students will learn concepts related to the architecture of the.net framework, assemblies, interops, advance exception handling, XML regular expressions, serialization and primitives. MSE571 Application Testing and Metrics A key aspect of software production is reliability and robustness of the application. Application Testing and Metrics explores the most important testing procedures used in Industry. Topics may include Project Life Cycle, test scripts, test scenarios, test items, Static Testing, Dynamic Testing, Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Function Testing and Non-Function Testing. MSE574 Deployment and Maintenance Issues This course will discuss issues related to techniques to deploy and update software such as patches and version control. MSE665 Advanced Topics in Software Engineering This course is an in-depth study of advanced software engineering tools or techniques. Topics may include C++, Java, JavaScript, and Visual Basic. MSE668 Software Architecture Students will delve into software architecture, its documentation, its design and its analysis. Issues associated with evaluating and facilitating software architectures will be explored.

5 Technology Studies Students in the Technology Studies track come from a wide range of backgrounds including history, anthropology/sociology, philosophy, the natural and physical sciences, engineering and numerous professional disciplines. The research and scholarly pursuits of students and faculty cross a wide range of disciplinary boundaries. Graduates emerge with an ability to identify and examine the conceptual and social dimensions of science and technology simultaneously and in historical perspective. Ability to articulate the cultural, social and economic influence of the Internet. Demonstrate a capacity to analyze and critique the development and deployment of military technologies within a given historical or socio-political framework. Articulate and explore the potential impacts of emerging technologies on the accepted social ethical contexts. Demonstrate a deep understanding of the philosophical underpinnings and relationships between technology and society and the cycle of change. MSE543 Philosophy of Technology This course is an introductory graduate course designed to help students become familiar with several major topics prominent in philosophy of technology and to develop skills in making and evaluating arguments about these and related topics. MSE553 Information Technology: Historical and Cultural Perspectives This is an introductory graduate course designed to provide students with an overview of the prominent developments in Information Technology from both a historical and cultural perspective. Students will develop an understanding of the development path of technologies through this exploration. MSE554 Contemporary Issues in Technology This introductory graduate course will explore contemporary issues within technology from a sociopolitical, economic and ethical perspective. Students will evaluate and discuss the relationship between technological innovation and social change from a value conflict and decision-making perspective. MSE605 Military Technology This graduate-level course is designed to provide the student with an overview of the development of military technologies with a focus on the changing needs of the military from World War II to the present. MSE606 Technology, Science and Labor This course provides the graduate student with an overview of the methods and processes through which technology and science have changed the shape of labor. Additional discussion will incorporate a near-futures perspective to the discussion. MSE607 Influence of the Internet This graduate-level course is designed to help students become familiar with the broad-reaching impact of the Internet from historical, cultural and political perspectives.