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The committee approved, with minor changes, two ECE 498 course proposals: (i) Extending Mobile Computing Through Cloud Computing by Yih-Chun Hu and Constantine Polychronopolous, and (ii) Engineering Software Systems by Steve Lumetta. Steve Lumetta has been asked to also submit a request for a permanent version of his course right awaysoon.
The committee then discussed the content and organization of ECE 190 and 290. One question raised was whether ECE 190 could be streamlined by having a less comprehensive coverage of LC3 while still maintaining a simple discussions of machine language and assembly language codes and their relation to high level programming. Another topic discussed was whether programming and gate level implementation issues could be covered in a tightly coordinated and orchestrated versions of revised ECE 190 and 290.
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