School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Department website: https://www.wku.edu/seas/
Stacy Wilson, Director
COHH 2114
270-745-3251
seas@wku.edu
The focus of the new WKU School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is to educate students to be leaders in a changing technical landscape, to provide solutions to the problems facing the modern high tech society, and to provide a workforce to support the technological complexity of industry.
In order to provide students with the necessary skills, the programs in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are project-based which means that students have opportunities to engage in project activities throughout the curricula to support design, development, implementation, and troubleshooting.
Faculty
Professor
Shahnaz Aly MARCH (Architecture), Texas A & M University, 1999
Gregory K. Arbuckle PhD (Technology Management (Quality Systems)), Indiana State University, 2004
Farhad Ashrafzadeh PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering), The University of Calgary, 1997
Mustafa Atici PhD (Computer Science), University of Nebraska, 1996
Mark E. Cambron PhD (Electrical Engineering), Vanderbilt University, 2001
Warren Campbell PhD (Civil Engineering), Colorado State University, 1984
Anthony M. Doggett PhD (Education and Human Resource Studies), Colorado State University, 2003
Hanna A. Khouryieh PhD (Food Science), Kansas State University, 2006
Qi Li PhD (Computer Science), University of Delaware, 2006
Shane M. Palmquist PhD (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Tufts University, 2003
Huanjing Wang PhD (Computer Science), The University of Alabama, 2005
Stacy Wilson PhD (Engineering, Electrical Engineering), Tennessee Technological University, 1996
Zhonghang Xia PhD (Computer Science), University of Texas at Dallas, 2004
Guangming Xing PhD (Computer Science), University of Georgia, 2001
Associate Professor
Jeffrey M. Galloway PhD (Computer Science), The University of Alabama, 2013
Kirolos M. Haleem Mesiha PhD (Civil Engineering), University of Central Florida, 2009
Yaser A. Mowafi PhD (Information Systems), University of Maryland Baltimore Co, 2009
Morteza Nurcheshmeh PhD (Mechanical Engineering), University of Windsor, 2011
Fatemeh Orooji PhD (Engineering Science, Construction Management), Louisiana State University & A&M College, 2015
Rong Yang PhD (Computer Science and Engineering), University of Louisville, 2007
Assistant Professor
Osama E. Mansour PhD (Environmental Design), The University of Calgary, 2015
Instructor I
Brian M. Janes MS (Management of Technology), Murray State University, 2003
Engineering Management Courses
EGMT 510 Emerging Technologies 3 Hours
Discovery of powerfully disruptive technologies, evaluating them accurately and implementing change for profitability.
Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to students in Engineering Management (0447) or Lean Sigma (0452)
Recent Term(s) Offered: spring 2022
EGMT 520 Resource Management 3 Hours
A comprehensive study of efficient allocation of materials and money. Includes a review of basic decision-making techniques, cost-benefit ratio analysis, depreciation, salvage value of equipment, and time value of money.
Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to students in Engineering Management (0447) or Lean Sigma (0452)
Recent Term(s) Offered: fall 2021; fall 2022; fall 2023
EGMT 530 Automated Data Collection Systems 3 Hours
Information systems for industry; collecting and analyzing real time data to make production decisions regarding profitability and quality.
Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to students in Engineering Management (0447) or Lean Sigma (0452)
Recent Term(s) Offered: None
EGMT 535 Workforce Development 3 Hours
Strategies for developing educational opportunities for personnel in industry and appropriate appraisal techniques for program improvement. Includes those topics crucial to developing the nation's workforce, including sociological foundations of workforce education, career development theory, needs assessment, developing objectives, performance assessment and private sector providers of workforce education programs.
Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to students in Engineering Management (0447) or Lean Sigma (0452)
Recent Term(s) Offered: None
EGMT 540 Theory of Constraints 3 Hours
Concepts of theory of constraints (TOC) pertaining to drum-buffer-rope, operations analysis, cost management, decision making and related areas. TOC management strategies and thinking processes applied to business problems.
Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to students in Engineering Management (0447) or Lean Sigma (0452)
Recent Term(s) Offered: spring 2022; spring 2023
EGMT 571 Research Methods in Technology Management 3 Hours
A comprehensive study of research methods and experimental design applicable to industrial and technical operations. This course includes a review of basic statistics, quality control techniques, and quality assurance.
Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to students in Engineering Management (0447) or Lean Sigma (0452)
Recent Term(s) Offered: fall 2021; fall 2022; fall 2023
EGMT 580 Six Sigma Quality 3 Hours
Management and application of six sigma methodologies including the DMAIC process and data-driven decision making. Advanced quality concepts and statistical process control.
Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to students in Engineering Management (0447) or Lean Sigma (0452)
Recent Term(s) Offered: spring 2022; spring 2023
EGMT 588 Product Development 3 Hours
Basic elements of marketing, design, and prototyping for innovation. Study of the multidisciplinary interrelationships involved in the development of commercial products.
Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to students in Engineering Management (0447) or Lean Sigma (0452)
Recent Term(s) Offered: winter 2023
EGMT 590 Operations Leadership 3 Hours
Provides technical professionals with leadership and management skills needed to be effective throughout their career.
Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to students in Engineering Management (0447) or Lean Sigma (0452)
Recent Term(s) Offered: fall 2022
EGMT 594 Lean Systems 3 Hours
Analysis of lean concepts and process improvement in business value streams, production, and distribution. Pull systems, flow control, inventory reduction, waste elimination, and value creation.
Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to students in Engineering Management (0447) or Lean Sigma (0452)
Recent Term(s) Offered: fall 2021; fall 2022; fall 2023
EGMT 599 Thesis Research and Writing 1-6 Hours (repeatable max of 6 hrs)
Thesis research and writing directed by faculty committee.
Recent Term(s) Offered: fall 2021; spring 2022; fall 2022; spring 2023
EGMT 600 Maintaining Matriculation 1-6 Hours (repeatable max of 6 hrs)
Continued enrollment for thesis completion.
Recent Term(s) Offered: fall 2021; spring 2022; summer 2022; fall 2022; summer 2023; fall 2023
EGMT 630 Legal and Ethical Issues in Technology 3 Hours
A study of ethics and social responsibility, international and contemporary legal issues in business and industry, and e-commerce.
Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to students in Engineering Management (0447) or Lean Sigma (0452)
Recent Term(s) Offered: summer 2022; summer 2023
EGMT 650 Supply Chain Management 3 Hours
An integrated and comprehensive treatment of operations and supply chain issues. Students study how firms link with their supply chain partners to gain a market advantage and competitiveness.
Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to students in Engineering Management (0447) or Lean Sigma (0452)
Recent Term(s) Offered: spring 2023
EGMT 655 Project Management 3 Hours
Concepts of project management as applicable to a wide range of business and technical situations. Focus on behavioral organizational aspects, quantitative methods, and automated tools.
Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to students in Engineering Management (0447) or Lean Sigma (0452)
Recent Term(s) Offered: spring 2022
EGMT 671 Quality Management 3 Hours
An examination of philosophies, concepts, tools and techniques used in continuous quality improvement programs.
Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to students in Engineering Management (0447) or Lean Sigma (0452)
Recent Term(s) Offered: fall 2021; fall 2023
EGMT 690 Graduate Project 1-6 Hours (repeatable max of 6 hrs)
An applied research project, using standard procedures of problem identification, possible solutions, and a final report. Can be either field or laboratory based and must be approved by a graduate faculty committee.
Recent Term(s) Offered: spring 2023
Computer Science Courses
CS 405G Numerical Analysis I 3 Hours
Computer arithmetic, roots of equations, polynomial approximation and interpolation, numerical differentiation and integration. Computer solutions of problems will be required.
Prerequisite(s): (MATH 307 or MATH 310 or MATH 237) and (CS 180 or CS 146) or permission of instructor
Equivalent(s): MATH 405G
Recent Term(s) Offered: fall 2021; fall 2022
CS 443G Database Management Systems 3 Hours
Organization and management of large data files, various database paradigms, database design theory, query optimization, physical database design, database security, distributed databases. Note: Credit will not be given for CS 443 or CS 443G once credit has been received for CS 543.
Prerequisite(s): CS 360 or permission of instructor
Recent Term(s) Offered: fall 2021; fall 2022; fall 2023
CS 445G Operating Systems II 3 Hours
Advanced study of modern operating system theory and practice. Topics include distributed system structures and coordination, distributed file systems, and protection and security.
Prerequisite(s): CS 425
Recent Term(s) Offered: spring 2021; spring 2022; spring 2023
CS 446G Interactive Computer Graphics 3 Hours
Elementary topics in interactive computer graphics. Includes both input and display devices and techniques for 2-D and 3-D transformations, as well as difficulties encountered in these areas. Computing assignments will emphasize interaction, data structures, and applications to various disciplines.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 307
Recent Term(s) Offered: None
CS 450G Computer Networks 3 Hours
An advanced study of the design and implementation of computer networks. Topics include network topologies, switching techniques, routing, end-to-end protocols, quality of service, and other advanced topics, e.g. wireless networks and multimedia networks. Note: Credit will not be given for CS 450 or CS 450G once credit has been received for CS 550.
Prerequisite(s): CS 425 or permission of instructor
Recent Term(s) Offered: None
CS 456G Artificial Intelligence 3 Hours
Problems having no plausible algorithmic solution, their computer representations and solutions which usually involve heuristics.
Prerequisite(s): CS 360
Recent Term(s) Offered: fall 2023
CS 460G Software Engineering II 3 Hours
Examination of critical theoretical problems underlying software engineering, including the rigorous treatment of software metrics, cost-estimating, object-oriented design, real time systems, etc.
Prerequisite(s): CS 360 or equivalent
Recent Term(s) Offered: None
CS 475G Topics/Computer Science 1-3 Hours (repeatable max of 6 hrs)
Significant problems and developments in computer science. Note: Permission of instructor required.
Prerequisite(s): permission of instructor
Recent Term(s) Offered: None
CS 500 Research Methods and Projects 3 Hours
A graduate level overview of problem-solving techniques and skills for computer-based systems including solution design and implementation. Topics include a team project to develop practical skills in documentation, communication, and module interfacing. The course may be used only in fulfilling the research tool requirement and may not be used toward an undergraduate degree in computer science.
Recent Term(s) Offered: spring 2022; fall 2023
CS 530 Automata Theory and Compiler Construction 3 Hours
The basic theoretical concepts of the computer viewed as an automaton. Automated tools for scanning and parsing will be studied to show how regular expressions and BNF languages are used in compiler construction and other computer applications.
Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to students in Computer Science (117)
Recent Term(s) Offered: spring 2022; fall 2023
CS 535 Cloud Computing 3 Hours
This course will provide insight on the current trends of local and public cloud computing systems. Three distinct design layers will be covered: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Topics include, but are not limited to, cloud computing architectures, virtual resource management, green clouds, data management, and user interface.
Recent Term(s) Offered: fall 2021
CS 541 Theory of Computation 3 Hours
An advanced study of the theory of computing, including languages, finite automata, grammars, Turing machines, complexity and computability.
Prerequisite(s): CS 530
Recent Term(s) Offered: None
CS 543 Advanced Database Systems 3 Hours
An advanced study of data and information management. Topics include database application development, XML data management, data storage and indexing, transaction management, parallel and distributed databases, data warehousing and decision support.
Prerequisite(s): CS 443 or equivalent
Recent Term(s) Offered: spring 2021; fall 2021; summer 2023
CS 544 Compiler Theory/Design 3 Hours
Formal properties of programming languages and the techniques used to construct compilers for these languages. Topics include lexical analysis, syntax analysis, symbol table construction, semantic analysis, code generation, and optimization. Students will complete a programming project.
Prerequisite(s): CS 500 and CS 530
Recent Term(s) Offered: None
CS 545 Systems Programming 3 Hours
A study of the system call interface of operating systems. Topics include low level file I/O, signal handling, interprocess communication, distributed communication, and process management. Students will write several systems level programs. The student develops a small operating system.
Prerequisite(s): CS 445
Recent Term(s) Offered: None
CS 549 Analysis of Algorithms 3 Hours
Methods (algorithms) for solving a variety of problems on computers and the relative efficiency of these algorithms.
Recent Term(s) Offered: fall 2021; spring 2023
CS 550 Advanced Topics in Computer Networks 3 Hours (repeatable max of 6 hrs)
Advanced topics in computer networks. Selected topics may include embedded systems, mobile computing, or other current development in computer networks. Note: Students will not get credit for CS 450G once credit is received for CS 550.
Prerequisite(s): CS 450G or equivalent
Recent Term(s) Offered: None
CS 555 Data Science 3 Hours
An introduction to concepts and methods in the emerging field of data science. Agorithms and tools to support problem-focused data-analytic thinking.
Recent Term(s) Offered: spring 2021; spring 2022; spring 2023
CS 560 Software Engineering and Project Management 3 Hours
Survey of modern software development techniques, including traditional and agile approaches. Topics include requirement definition, process modeling, design methods, human factor issues, and an introduction to software project management. Student will be required to model a project using Unified Modeling Language.
Prerequisite(s): CS 360
Recent Term(s) Offered: spring 2021; fall 2022
CS 562 Parallel and Distributed Computing 3 Hours
An introduction to parallel and distributed computing. The development, implementation, and analysis of parallel algorithms will be studied.
Recent Term(s) Offered: fall 2023
CS 565 Data Mining Techniques and Tools 3 Hours
The theory and application of data mining, roots of data mining, preprocessing techniques for raw data, classification algorithms and techniques, clustering algorithms and techniques, association rule mining algorithms and techniques.
Prerequisite(s): CS 443G or equivalent
Recent Term(s) Offered: spring 2021; fall 2022
CS 568 Computer Vision 3 Hours
A study of the techniques and applications of computer vision. Topics include pattern recognition, filtering, texture, segmentation, recognition, 3D vision and case studies. Important algorithms will be implemented by students.
Prerequisite(s): CS 500
Recent Term(s) Offered: spring 2023
CS 570 Security in Computing 3 Hours
Essential techniques in cryptography and computer security. Privacy issues in a broad range of computing contexts. Topics include program security, trusted operating systems, database/data mining security, and network security.
Prerequisite(s): CS 445G or CS 450G or equivalent
Recent Term(s) Offered: spring 2022
CS 595 Advanced Topics/Computer Science 1-3 Hours (repeatable max of 6 hrs)
Significant problems and current developments in computer science. Note: 9 hours of CS required.
Prerequisite(s): permission of instructor
Recent Term(s) Offered: None
CS 599 Thesis Research/Writing 1-6 Hours (repeatable max of 6 hrs)
Thesis research and writing directed by faculty committee.
Recent Term(s) Offered: spring 2021; fall 2021; spring 2022; fall 2022
CS 600 Maintain Matriculation 1-6 Hours (repeatable max of 6 hrs)
Continued enrollment for thesis completion.
Recent Term(s) Offered: spring 2021; fall 2021; spring 2022; fall 2022; spring 2023; summer 2023; fall 2023