Server: Netscape-Communications/1.1 Date: Tuesday, 26-Nov-96 23:19:51 GMT Last-modified: Monday, 28-Oct-96 22:39:43 GMT Content-length: 8656 Content-type: text/html Cal Poly Computer Science Department Cal Poly - SLO Computer Science Department
Frank Pilling Building (room 14-254)
Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
(805) 756-2824


Admissions | Personnel | Alumni | Curriculum | Projects | Facilities | Student Orgs | Comments
Recruitment for Asst/Assoc Professor

Introduction

The Computer Science Department provides courses in the design of computer based systems and their application to real world problems. These support the BSCS and MSCS degrees in Computer Science, the BSCPE degree in Computer Engineering, a minor in Computer Science, and computer literacy courses for the rest of the university. The department is part of the College of Engineering.

Current Projects

Student projects
All students in the BS programs are required to do a senior project. In addition, many courses require significant projects as well.
Faculty Research
Synthesis Project
Technical Reports
a list of reports is currently under construction.

People

Faculty
The faculty of the department include 22 tenure track faculty, together with additional part-time lecturers, and graduate Teaching Associates.
Staff
The staff of the department are responsible for student advising, laboratories, and department office.
Students
There are approximately 450 undergraduate computer science students, 75 graduate students.
Alumni
As of Spring 1996, there are approximately 2000 CSc alumni.
Visit the CS department Alumni Home page to
  • Find fellow alums by name or by class
  • Add your name to our list of CS alums
  • Curriculum

    Description of Department Programs
    BSCS
    BSCPE
    MSCS
    CS minor
    Computer Literacy
    Computer Science courses which are actively on the web.
    CSc 110, 113, 120 Computer Literacy
    CSC 251 FORTRAN Programming
    CSC 440 Software Engineering
    CSC 441 Software Engineering (Second Quarter)
    CSC 457 Computer Animation
    CSC 458 Computer Graphics Seminar
    CSC 510/511 Graduate Software Engineering
    Expanded course outlines
    The department maintains an expanded course outline for each course

    Projects

    In keeping with the Cal Poly philosophy of learn by doing, the department requires a senior project at the undergraduate level, as well as a thesis or thesis project at the graduate level.

    Computer Systems Laboratory

    The CSL is responsible for providing computer facilities for departmental instructional programs.
    facilities

    Student Organizations

    Student clubs and organizations are very active at Cal Poly.
    Computer Science students are involved in:
    ACM
    The student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery
    Upsilon Pi Epsilon
    - Cal Poly's Computer Science honor society
    IEEE-CS
    - The student chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    Simstar
    - A student-organized networked multi-user spacecraft simulation.
    FACT
    - Females Active in Computing Technology. Students from throughout the university are also involved in this college-wide organization.
    SWE
    - The student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers
    Tau Beta Pi
    - A widely recognized national engineering honor society
    SHPE
    - The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
    Phi Kappa Phi
    - An honor society recognizing superior scholarship in all fields of study

    Advising

    College of Engineering Advising Center
    CSc graduate advisor
    undergraduate advisors

    Admissions

    If you are interested in becoming an undergraduate CSC or CPE student at Cal Poly, information is available from the office of admissions.
    Graduate admissions require an undergraduate degree in any field with a GPA of 3.25 or better, and a combined score on the GRE exam of 1650 or better. Further information on graduate admissions is available.

    Server Statistics

    Creating a Home Page

    If you are a computer science student with a galaxy/phoenix account, here are instructions for creating a home page on this system.


    Please send any constructive comments to CSc Webmaster
    This document last updated on Monday, October 28 1996.
    Copyright © 1996 by Dept of Computer Science, Cal Poly.
    All rights reserved, etc., etc.