Web site: http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/undergraduate/courses/details.html#ENGS4
This course will cover some basic concepts underlying the 'information superhighway.' The technologies of high-speed networking have stimulated much activity within the federal government, the telecommunications and computer industries, and even social science and popular fiction writing. The technical focus will be on communications technologies, information theory, and the communications requirements of video (standard and ATV), speech (and other audio), text data. Social economic and policy issues will be an integral part of the course.
Instructor: Staff
Web site: http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/undergraduate/courses/details.html#ENGS7
Offered: 08F, 09F: 11
What is the role of technology in people's lives? Does it make living easier or harder? Has technology reduced or increased the socio-economic divide? Does it impact men and women differently? Does technology help or ruin our environment? What kind of world will technology give us in the 21st Century? Will it be a nightmare or utopia?
This seminar will investigate the relationship between technology and society. Besides considering the above questions, students will learn how scientific developments become engineering applications. The engineering process and its problem-solving approach will be demonstrated. Discussion will take place on how society influences the engineering process, as well as the positive and negative impacts of technology. This seminar is for both those who love and those who fear technology.
The reading list will include: parts of The Laser in America, Joan Bromberg (MIT Press); readings from Smithsonian, Technology Review, the New York Times, and chapters from various books, including: Lifting the Veil, Linda Jean Shepherd (1993); Women Changing Science, Mary Morse (1995); Simian, Cyborgs, and Women, Donna J. Haraway; and The Machinery of Dominance, Cynthia Cockburn (1985).
Instructor: Garmire
Web site: http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/undergraduate/courses/details.html#ENGS69
This course will provide students with an introduction to computer networks and operating systems, and the ways that these systems can be maliciously exploited. Vulnerabilities will be discussed both generally and specifically, demonstrating that all computing platforms are vulnerable to attack, but that differences in operating system architectures lead to unique weaknesses. A survey of defensive measures and "best-practices" for computer security will give students a broad knowledge of how systems can be secured.
Prerequisite: ENGS 20 or CS 5
Web site: http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/graduate/courses/details.html#ENGS112
Offered: 09S, 10S: 11
This course covers current and emerging information technologies, focusing on their engineering design, performance, and application. General topics, such as distributed component and object architectures, wireless networking, web computing, and information security, will be covered. Specific subjects will include Java, CORBA, JINI public key cryptography, web search engine theory and technology, and communications techniques relevant to wireless networking such as Code Division Multiple Access protocols and cellular technology.
Prerequisites: ENGS 20, ENGS 27, and ENGS 103 or COSC 78; ENGS 103 can be taken concurrently
Instructor: Cybenko
Web site: http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/graduate/courses/details.html#ENGM188
(Cannot be used to satisfy any A.B. degree requirements)
Offered: 08F: Wed, Fri 8:30-10:00am
Taking a good idea and turning it into a successful product and a profitable business poses a number of technical, managerial, and financial challenges. The solutions to many of the challenges of entrepreneurship in general, and to those of starting up a technologically based business in particular, are provided by the law. A grounding in the law of intellectual property, contractual transactions, business structures, debt and equity finance, and securities regulation, both in the U.S. and in an international context, will help inventors and entrepreneurs to manage this part of the process intelligently and with a high likelihood of success.
Prerequisite: None
Instructor: Goodenough
Web site: http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/graduate/courses/details.html#ENGG312
(Cannot be used to satisfy any A.B. degree requirements)
Offered: arrange
Advanced study in any of the following or other topics may be pursued: information theory, coding, noise, random signals, extraction of signals from noise, pattern recognition, and modulation theory. Normally offered in alternate years.
Prerequisites: ENGS 103, ENGS 110, and permission of instructor
Instructor: Cybenko
