Computing Curricular Report CE2016, A Summary

Synonyms

Computer education; Computer engineering; Computing education; Engineering education

Overview

The report titled, Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Computer Engineering (CE2016) (Impagliazzo et al. 2016), better known as CE2016, was an endeavor conducted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society. This article is largely based on a culminating paper for the project (Nelson et al. 2017) that reflects an integration of material from earlier workshops and presentations; it also summarizes the content that led to the ACM publication of the CE2016 report in December of 2016. CE2016 is part of a series of reports covering curricula for a variety of computing fields. This article discusses significant aspects of CE2016 and the ways institutions might use the report to update or create computer engineering programs.

The computer engineering field has witnessed rapid advances over the past decade and the field expects to...

Appendix A. Four-Year Model for Sample Curriculum A (Administered by an ECE Department)

Notation:

• ECE_A201: 2nd year course offered in the ECE department

• CSC_A101: 1st-year course offered in the computer science department

Appendix A

Course	Description	Credit	Course	Description	Credit
Semester 1			Semester 2
MTH 101	Calculus I	3	MTH 102	Calculus II	3
CHM 101	Chemistry I & Lab	4	PHY 101	Physics I	3
CSCA101	Introduction to Computer Programming	4	CSCA102	Intermediate Computer Programming	4
	English Composition I	3	ECEA101	Introduction to ECE	2
	Humanities Elective	3		English Composition II	3
	Total credit hours	17		Total credit hours	15
Semester 3			Semester 4
MTH 201	Calculus III	3	MTH 203	Differential Equations	3
PHY 201	Physics II	3	MTHA204	Discrete Structures	3
ECEA201	Digital Devices & Lab	4	ECEA202	Microprocessors & Lab	4
CSCA201	Data Structures	3	ECEA203	Circuits/Electronics I	3
MTH 202	Linear Algebra	3	MTH 205	Probability & Statistics	3
	Total credit hours	16		Total credit hours	16
Semester 5			Semester 6
CSCA301	Algorithms	3	CSCA302	Client/Server Programming	3
ECEA301	Circuits/Electronics II & Lab	4	ECEA303	Signals & Systems	3
ECEA302	Digital System Design & Lab	3	ECEA304	Data Communication	3
	Humanities Elective	3	ECEA305	Computer Architecture	3
				Social Science Elective	3
	Total credit hours	13		Total credit hours	15
Semester 7			Semester 8
ECEA401	CE Design I	2	ECEA402	CE Design II	2
ECEA403	Embedded Systems & Lab	3	ECEA404	Computer Security	3
ENG 401	Writing for Engineers	3	ECEA405	Operating Systems	3
	CE Technical Elective	3		CE Technical Elective	3
	Fine Arts Elective	3		Social Science Elective	3
		14			14