MARYLAND OFFICE OF THE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND PROVOST

UNIVERS ITY OF MARYLAND OFFICE OF THE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND PROVOST 1119 Main Administration Building College Park, Maryland 20742-5031 301.405.5252 TEL 301.405.8195 FAX July 1,2015 MEMORANDUM TO: FROM: SUBJECT: Darryll Pines Dean, A. James Clark School of Engineering Elizabeth Beise Associate Provost for Academic Planning and Programs Proposal to Modify the Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering (PCC log no.14062) The proposal to modify the Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering has been administratively approved. A copy of the approved proposal is attached. This change is effective Fall 2015. Please ensure that this change is fully described in the Undergraduate Catalog and in all relevant descriptive materials, including the undergraduate program's four-year plan (contact Lisa Kiely at likelyfgiumd.edu for more information), and that all advisors are informed. MDC/ Enclosure cc: Gregory Miller, Chair, Senate PCC Committee Barbara Gill, Office of Student Financial Aid Reka Montfort, University Senate Erin Taylor, Division of Information Technology Pam Phillips, Institutional Research, Planning & Assessment Anne Turkos, University Archives Linda Yokoi, Office of the Registrar Cynthia Stevens, Office of Undergraduate Studies William Fourney, A. James Clark School of Engineering Rama Chellappa, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK PROGRAM/CURRICULUM/UNIT PROPOSAL Please email the rest of the proposal as an MSWord attachment to DCc-suhniissionstfRumd-edu. PCC LOG NO. Please submit the signed fonn to the Office of the Associate Provost for Academic Planning and Programs, 1 i!9 Main Administration Building, Campus. 14062 College/School: ^^"^^^ ^'^'^ Engineering Please also add College/School Unit Code-First 8 digits: 01203200 Ufiil Codes can be found at: blips ://hvpprod. nmd. edn/html Reports/umls. htm Department/Program: Electrical & Computer Engineering Please also add Department/Program Unit Code-Last 7 digits; 1320901 Type of Action (choose one): n Curriculum change (including informal specializations) New academic degree/award program 0 Curriculum change for an LEP Program New Professional Studies award iteration Renaming oj program or formal Area of Concentration New Minor D Addition/deletion offormal Area of Concentration D Request to create an online version of an existing D Suspend/delete program program Summary of Proposed Action: Addition of ENEE101 Introduction to Electrical & Computer Engineering (EGE) as a requi the Computer Engineering major. Elimination of ENEE200 Societal and Ethical Issues in Engineering Technology, as a major requirement in Computer Engineering. r» * * r- * *t> D I Dr. Rama Chellappa, Dr. Mel Gomez, Mr. Neruh Ramirez Departmental/Unit Contact Person for Proposal: ; APPROVAL SIGNATURES - Please print sign, and date. Use additional lines for multi-unit progra 1. Department Committee Chair 2. Department Chair 3. College/School PCCefiair : ^ir 4. Dean 5. Dean ofthe Graduate School )ol(ifrequired) (It Chair. Senate PCC ^^-^^y 7. University Senate Chair (if required)_ /(^///r-/^ ^ 8. Senior Vice President and Provost

COMPUTER ENGINEERING (CpE) CURRICULUM CHANGE REQUIRED INFORMATION PROPOSAL 1. Current requirements as sliown in the undergraduate catalog: See attachment A. 2. Proposed new requirements: See attachment B. 3. Identiflcation of and rationale for the changes: a. Proposed changes: (1) Require students to talce ENEElOl Introduction to Electrical & Computer E (ECE). (2) Eliminate the requirement to take ENEE200 Societal and Ethical Issues in Technology. (3) Both changes would apply to all new students to ECE in Fall 2015. b. Rationale: To provide ECE students the opportunity to learn and have a clear understandin curriculum and topics in their first year. To provide ECE students an opportun first year to learn about and develop a clear understanding of the ECE curricu topics. c. Detailed Summary: (1) Addition of ENEElOl Even the most informed entering freshman student does not have a clear unde the ECE curriculum. This is expected since ECE is extremely broad and spans of physics and mathematics, hardware and software, as well as covering fund principles of devices and highly integrated complex systems. Furthermore, i plan of study, ECE students do not typically enroll in ECE courses until th semester (except for programming courses). In addition, most students are n cognizant of the relevance of these courses in their overall curriculum. Di design (ENEE244), for example, teaches the theory of the design and analysi combinational and synchronous sequential systems, but students find it diff these concepts in the absence of a clear context where they are used. Simil 222 Elements of Signal Analysis teaches discrete-time and continuous-time s can appear to be another mathematics course as students have a minimal und of the central role played by transforms in many areas of electrical and co engineering. By introducing applications of these principles in ENEE 101, i anticipated that the overall quality of the educational experience will be enhanced, resulting in better retention and graduation rates as well as gra better prepared for academics and industry. (2) Elimination of ENEE200: The new curriculum will drop the requirement that ENEE200 from the curriculu change is necessary to provide room in the graduation plan to add the new E course. The ABET Student Outcome of understanding professional and ethical responsibility will be satisfied in the following manner: Instead of having course to address engineering ethics, the pedagogy will be spread over seve with varying degrees of expose.

i. ENES 100 Introduction to Engineering Design is required for all Cl School engineering students and devotes a section on ethical issues engineering. It has a lecture entitled "Product Liability and Ethic illustrates the impact of product designs and consumer safety. All are required to attend the lecture, and in most cases, a follow up discussion about the lecture. We regard this as "preliminary exposu ENEElOl, students will be required to study the extensive literatur Institutional Review Board published by University of Maryland and a written examination, which will be a course requirement. The IRB literature includes ethics issues on intellectual property, privacy property rights. on a case study about a current ethical dilemma. We regard these ac ii. Additionally, students in ENEElOl will be required to write a reac "intensive exposure" to ethics. ill. Finally, students will be required to address ethical implication their culminating design experience (capstone courses). Admittedly, will be some variations on the depth of ethical discussions dependin the capstone course, but at the very least, students will write a s ethical standards as part of their final design report. We regard th application of ethics". Through these three courses, which will pro measured and systematic introduction to ethics within engineering d students will have satisfied the ABET student outcome of understand professional and ethical responsibility. (3) External Transfer Student Exception: External transfer students admitted to the department who have completed the ENEE courses and an equivalent of ENES 100, will be exempted from ENEElOl. T reason behind this exemption is that ENEElOl is mainly an introductory cour students unfamiliar with ECE topics. External transfer students who have al lower level ENEE courses, will be very familiar with the introductory topics ENEElOl. In order to acquire the ethics portion covered in ENEElOl, these students m of the following: i. Complete the University of Maryland IRB workshop; write and submit position paper on a current relevant ethics topic. ii. Use a previously taken ethics course (at their previous institutio this ethics requirement. ill. Take an ethics course here at UMD (i.e. PH1L140. GEMS104, or ENEE (4) Non-ECE Students at UMD First-year University of Maryland students interested in the ECE major will opportunity to enroll in ENEElOl based on seat availability. This will inclu other Engineering majors. Letters & Sciences students, and students in othe majors. A sample program under the proposed requirements: See attachment B.

The department will continue to offer ENEE200 so students in who are following the p 5. Chart showing timetable of course implementation: curriculum can fulfill this requirement. ENEElOl will be required and offered for al students entering in Fall 2015. 6. New Course(s): ENEElOl Introduction to Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) The proposed ENEE 101 class is a 3 credit, hands-on class with a 50 minute lecture laboratory per week. The topics are organized into 6-7 unique modules that highlight of ECE. Each of the modules include key elements of both EE and CpE curriculum, inc computing systems and software, communications and controls, electrodynamics and wa microelectronics and signal processing, and power. Among proposed the modules are: a. Developing applications on the android operating system b. Thermal control feedback system for cooking eggs. c. Data collection and signal analysis of brain EEC d. Wavelength division fiber optic communication. e. Image processing, data encryption and recovery. f. Model-based software design implementation. g. Microprocessor and Matlab interfacing. h. Augmented reality. i. Measuring electron drift velocity in semiconductors, j. Ethics and IRB A set of modules may vary from semester to semester, with the exception of Ethics a will be part of every offering. Deleted Requirements: ENEE200 will no longer be a major requirement for new students in the ECE department 2015. The department will continue to offer ENEE200 for pre-fall 2015 students who the course as a major requirement. At this point, the department is contemplating s ENEE200 to Undergraduate Studies for approval in the General Education program. 8. Other departments impacted by change: No other departments are impacted by the proposed changes. Per the guidelines of th Science in Engineering (ASE) continuous review process, the ECE Department will noti Oversight Council's Continuous Review Committee (CRC) of the changes to our program (hnp://wwvv.mhec.state.md.us/ase/continuous Review Process with ABET notes.pdf). 9. Students enrolled in the program prior to the curriculum change: The department will continue to offer ENEE200 for pre-fall 2015 students in the depa need to take the course as a major requirement. 3

FIRST YEAR COMPUTER ENGINEERING Sample Graduation Plan for Old Curriculum CHEM 135 General Chemistry 3 PHYS 161 General Physics 3 MATH 140, 141 Calculus 1,11 4 4 CMSC 132* Object Oriented Programming 11 4 ENES 100 Intro, to Engineering Design 3 ENEE 200 Society, Ethics, and ECE 3 ENGL 101 Introduction to Writing 3 GenEdj: General Education 3 Total Credits 13 17 SOPHOMORE YEAR MATH 246 Differential Equations 3 CMSC 216 Introduction to Computer Systems 4 CMSC 250 Discrete Structure 4 CMSC 351 Algorithms J PHYS 260/261 General Physics 4 ENEE 205 Electric Circuits 4 ENEE 222 Elements of Discrete Signal Analysis 4 ENEE 244 Digital Logic Design 3 ENEE 245 Digital Circuits and Systems Laboratory 2 Total Credits 15 17 JUNIOR YEAR I II CMSC 330 Organization of Prog. Languages 3 CMSC 412 Operating Systems 4 ENEE 303 Analog and Digital Electronics 3 ENEE 307 Electronics Circuits Design Lab 2 ENEE 322 Signal and System Theory 3 ENEE 324 Engineering Probability 3 ENEE 350 Computer Organization 3 ENEE 446 Computer Design 3 GenEdJ General Education 3 6 Total Credits 17 16 SENIOR YEAR Technical Electives 12 10 ENGL393 Technical Writing 3 GenEdj: General Education 3 3 Total Credits 15 16 NOrt;; Schedule assumes General liducation courses satisfy- more than one Genlid requirement * Students may need to take CMSC 131 or an exemption exam before taking CMSC 132,

COMPUTER ENGINEERING Sample Graduation Plan for New Curriculum FIRST YEAR 1 II CHEM 135 General Chemistry 3 PHYS 161 General Physics 3 MATH 140, 141 Calculus 1,11 4 4 CMSC 132* Object Oriented Programming 1! 4 ENES 100 Intro, to Engineering Design 3 ENEE 101 Introduction to ECE 3 ENGL 101 Introduction to Writing GenEdJ General Education 3 3 Total Credits 16 17 SOPHOMORE YEAR MATH 246 Differential Equations 3 CMSC 216 Introduction to Computer Systems 4 CMSC 250 Discrete Structure 4 PHYS 260/261 General Physics 4 ENEE 205 Electric Circuits 4 ENEE 222 Elements of Discrete Signal Analysis 4 ENEE 244 Digital Logic Design 3 GenEdJ General Education 3 ENEE 245 Digital Circuits and Systems Laboratory 2 Total Credits 15 16 JUNIOR YEAR CMSC 330 Organization of Prog Languages 3 CMSC 351 Algorithms 3 ENEE 303 Analog and Digital Electronics ENEE 307 Electronics Circuits Design Lab 2 ENEE 322 Signal and System Theory 3 ENEE 324 Engineering Probability 3 ENEE 350 Computer Organization 3 ENEE 446 Computer Design GenEdJ General Education 3 6 Total Credits 15 17 SENIOR YEAR Technical Electives ENGL393 CMSC 412 CpE Technical Electives Technical Writing Operating Systems 12 10 3 4 Total Credits 15 14 % NO IE: Schedule assumes General Education courses satisfy more than one Gen Ed requirement. * Students may need to take CMSC 131 or an exemption exam before taking CMSC 132.