RIT - Department of Computer Engineering

Computer Engineering Minor (EECM)

A minor in Computer Engineering is designed to provide non-majors with a foundation in digital systems design, computer organization and low-level programming. Students can build on that foundation though elective courses in the areas of hardware design, architectures, networks and systems.

I. Policies

A minor in Computer Engineering is open to all undergraduate students matriculated at RIT, except for students majoring in Computer Engineering.
Student must complete at least 20 quarter hours of approved Computer Engineering courses to earn a minor in Computer Engineering.
At least 12 of the 20 quarter hours must be in courses not required by a student’s home program and must be completed in residency.
Posting of the minor on a student's transcript requires a minimum grade point average of 2.0 in the minor courses.
A minor may not be added after graduation.

II. Course Requirements

Prerequisites: Students entering the CE minor should have the following prerequisites.

Mathematical capability at the level of 1016-281 Project-based Calculus I, or 1016-272 Calculus B, or 1016-265 Discrete Math I.
Programming capability at the level of 4003-232 Computer Science II.

Core Courses: All students must complete the following core courses (12 credits):

Core Course	Credits
0306-341 Introduction to Digital Systems	4
0306-250 Assembly Language	4
0306-550 Computer Organization	4

Exceptions:

Core course waiver: Students that have taken a course outside CE which has significant overlap with one of the above core courses may request CE department approval for waiving that course requirement. For example, 0306-341 can be waived for students with 0301-240 credit.
Core course substitution: Students that have taken a course outside CE which has substantial overlap with a core course may request CE department approval for the substitution of that core course with a CE elective course from the list below.

Elective Courses: All students must complete at least 8 credits of approved CE courses outside the core. The following CE courses may be used as electives:

0306-351 Hardware Description Languages
0306-381 Applied Programming
0306-451 Digital Signal Processing
0306-460 Electronics for Computer Engineers (Not open to EE and MicroE students)
0306-551 Computer Architecture
0306-553 Digital Control Systems
0306-560 Interface & Digital Electronics
0306-561 Digital Systems Design
0306-710 Network Modeling Design and Simulation
0306-615 Wireless Networks
0306-620 Design Automation of Digital Systems
0306-722 Advanced Computer Architecture
0306-624 High Performance Architectures
0306-630 Introduction to VLSI Design
0306-631 Advanced VLSI Design
0306-658 Fault Tolerant Systems
0306-663 Real-Time & Embedded Systems
0306-664 Modeling Real-Time Systems
0306-672 Special Topics in Computer Engineering
0306-675 Robotics
0306-676 Robust Control
0306-684 Digital Image Processing Algorithms
0306-685 Computer Vision
0306-694 Data & Computer Communications