Degrees and Requirements
Computer Engineering - Pitt
Dual Degree: Any Bachelor of Arts or Science Degree from La Roche with Bachelor of Science in Engineering from University of Pittsburgh.
To successfully complete the terms of the articulation agreement, the following is required:
- must be enrolled at LRC for at least the past 2 years
- must have a GPA of 3.0 or higher at time of application to University of Pittsburgh engineering program
- must receive favorable recommendation from the combined degree program liason at LRC
- must successfully complete all science and math pre-requisite course requirements for their intended engineering major with a grade of C or better and a GPA of 3.0 or better
- Foundations: 46 credits
- Mathematics: 6 credits
- Computer Science: 4 credits
- Communications: 3 credits (choose one course from the list below)
- Technical/ Professional Electives: 6 credits (choose two courses from the list below)
- General Electives: 6 credits
- must have completed the major requirements prescribed by their LRC program prior to commencing study at the University of Pittsburgh or have a written plan in place to show how these requirements will be met at the University of Pittsburgh
Summary of Requirements
Communications: 3 credits- choose one course
ENGL1012
ACADEMIC WRITING AND RESEARCH
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
Prerequisite: ENGL1011. This course engages students in reading, writing and research practices essential to academic life, including developing a project for a research paper, searching for authoritative materials to use in that project, and presenting it in an edited paper that follows academic conventions of documentation and citation.
ENGL2029
BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: ENGL1012 OR ENGL1012H This course is designed to teach students best practices in both written and oral business communication. Types of communications include: business letters, emails, reports, executive summaries, cover letters, resumes, PowerPoint presentations, and the job interview.
ENGL2030
TECHNICAL WRITING
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: ENGL1012 OR ENGL1012H Designed to apply the basic principles of communication to technical information so that the student can learn to present complex technical messages in the clearest possible way.
PREREQUISITES:
ENGL1012(H)
SPCH1001
MODERN PUBLIC SPEAKING
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
Intended to develop an understanding of and facility in the preparation, organization, delivery and criticism of speeches.
Computer Science: 4 credits
CSCI2010
PROGRAMMING II
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: CSCI1010. This course is a follow-on to Programming I. Topics covered include; data structures, file input and output, and other advanced object-oriented programming concepts found in Java.
CSCI2010L
PROGRAMMING II - LAB
Credits (Min/Max): 1/1
Lab work for CSCI2010 Programming II
PREREQUISITES:
CSCI1010 & CSCI1010L & Concur: CSCI2010
Engineering/Science Elective (Pre-approved list): 3 credits
BIOL2025
MICROBIOLOGY
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: BIOL1004 AND BIOL1006 An examination of the morphology and physiology of microorganisms with emphasis on their relationship to their environment. Topics include food, water, soil, industrial, and medical microbiology, microbial genetics, and microbial diversity. The laboratory work introduces the student to both the organisms and the techniques necessary to study them. Lecture and laboratory course.
PREREQUISITES:
BIOL1004 & BIOL1006
BIOL2025L
MICROBIOLOGY - LAB
Credits (Min/Max): 1/1
Laboratory for BIOL2025 Microbiology
BIOL3013
GENETICS
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: BIOL1004 & BIOL1006 A study of the basic principles of heredity including Mendelian, molecular and population genetics. Topics will include the cellular functions that give rise to inherited traits, the genetic basis for evolution, the role of genetics in biotechnology, and the statistical basis for predicting the probability of inheriting certain traits.
PREREQUISITES:
BIOL1004 & BIOL1006
BIOL3015
GENERAL ECOLOGY
Credits (Min/Max): 4/4
PREREQUISITE: BIOL1004 A general ecology course studying ecosystem and population dynamics. Application of these concepts is made to aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems including current environmental problems. Fieldwork is an integral part of this course. Lecture and laboratory course.
BIOL3026
CELL BIOLOGY
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: BIOL1004 AND BIOL1006 A survey course in cell biology. The ultra structure of the Eukaryotic plant and animal cell are examined and related to cell function. Special emphasis is placed on membrane structure and functions.
PREREQUISITES:
BIOL1004 & BIOL1006
BIOL3036
BIOCHEMISTRY I (CHEM3036)
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: CHEM2015L AND CHEM2015 An introduction to the biochemical metabolism of the living cell. Cellular structure, macromolecules, metabolic pathways, energy transformations, regulatory mechanisms and molecular genetics are discussed. Cross-listed with CHEM3036
BIOL4019
IMMUNOLOGY
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: BIOL1004, CHEM2004, BIOL1006 This course involves the description and development of the immune system, which includes the chemical, molecular, and cellular basis of immune reactions. The genetic and chemical control of the immune response is a recurrent theme of the course. Major topics covered in the course include specific immunities, types of hypersensitivity, autoimmunity, transplantation and rejection and immune disorders and deficiencies.
PREREQUISITES:
BIOL1004 & BIOL1006 & CHEM1002
BIOL4030
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: CHEM2016L, BIOL1004, BIOL1006, CHEM2016 Molecular Biology is an introduction to the study of selected biological processes from a molecular perspective. Both eukaryotes and prokaryotes will be included. The molecular basis of the biosynthesis of macromolecules, intercellular and intracellular communication, genetics, immunology, infectious diseases and cancer will be discussed.
PREREQUISITES:
BIOL1004 & BIOL1006 & CHEM2016 & CHEM2016L
CSCI2010
PROGRAMMING II
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: CSCI1010. This course is a follow-on to Programming I. Topics covered include; data structures, file input and output, and other advanced object-oriented programming concepts found in Java.
CSCI2010L
PROGRAMMING II - LAB
Credits (Min/Max): 1/1
Lab work for CSCI2010 Programming II
PREREQUISITES:
CSCI1010 & CSCI1010L & Concur: CSCI2010
CSCI2020
ALGORITHM ANALYSIS
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: CSCI2010 This course teaches techniques of programming utilizing data structures such as lists, stacks, and queues and algorithmic approaches such as recursion, searching and sorting. These techniques are learned through programming exercises as well as classroom study.N×
CSCI2025
SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: CSCI2010 This course will introduce the students to the important systems language,C,and to several topics related to the hardware and software environment. These are issues related to system interfaces and software synchronization provided by operating systems, the linkage of operating system services to application software, and the fundamental mechanisms for computer communications.
PREREQUISITES:
CSCI2010 & Concur: CSCI2025L
CSCI2025L
SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING - LAB
Credits (Min/Max): 1/1
PREREQUISITE: CSCI2010 This course will provide the hands-on laboratory component to the Systems Programming course which will introduce the students to the important systems language,C,and to several topics related to the hardware and software environment. These are issues related to system interfaces and software synchronization provided by the operating system, the linkage of operating system services to application software, and the fundamental mechanisms for computer communications.
CSCI2055
DATABASE-SYSTEMS THEORY
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: CSCI1010 This course is designed to present the essential concepts, principles, techniques, and mechanisms for the design, analysis, use, and implementation of computerized database systems. Key information management concepts and techniques are examined: database modeling and representation; information interfaces - access, query, and manipulation, implementation structures, and issues of distribution. The database and information management system technology examined in this course represents the state-of-the-art, including traditional approaches as well as recent research developments. The course should allow the student to understand, use, and build practical database systems. The course is intended to provide a basic understanding of the issues and problems involved in database systems, a knowledge of current practical techniques for satisfying the needs of such a system, and an indication of the current research approaches that are likely to provide a basis for tomorrow's solutions.
CSCI3040
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: CSCI2035 This course is an in-depth study of modern operating systems. Students will learn about the services provided by an operating system, how to use these services and how the services are implemented. Topics covered include: Initialization (boot), Processes, Controlling shared resources, Memory, Bulk storage systems, and Network Communications (TCP/IP) as they relate to the computer operating system.
CSCI4045
COMPUTER NETWORKS AND
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: CSCI2025 This course introduces the fundamentals of computer networking for distributed applications. Topics covered include network architecture, protocols, standards, security and socket programming. The course provides students with the ability to create programs making appropriate use of networked architectures with a specific focus on the Internet.
CSCI4055
ADVANCED DATABASE THEORY
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: CSCI2055 This course is a continuation of Database-Systems Theory. It concentrates on object-oriented database design, object relational design, data warehousing, data marts, and data mining. Emphasis will be placed on modeling languages such as UML, ODMG, as well as ODL and SQL3 standards. Also, Online Analytical Processing and its relationship to data warehousing, data mining, and decision support systems will be discussed.
MATH2050
DISCRETE MATHEMATICS I
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: MATH1032 A basic course dealing with mathematics applicable to computer science. It provides an introduction to mathematical methods and covers such topics as: enumeration, set theory, mathematical logic, proof techniques, number systems, functions and relations, graphs and digraphs, trees, combinatorics, basic algebraic structures, recurrence relations, Boolean algebra, and analysis of algorithms.
MATH2051
DISCRETE MATHEMATICS II
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: MATH2050 AND CSCI2017 A continuation of MATH1014. Topics to be covered will include some or all of the following: integers and integers Mod n; counting techniques, combinatorics, and discrete probability; graphs, trees, and relations; Boolean algebras; and models of computation such as grammars, finite-state machines, and Turing machines.
MATH3045
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS II
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: MATH3040 A detailed study of topics in statistics: comparison of classical and Bavesian methods in conditional probability and estimation of parametrics, non-linear regression, multiple, partial and rank correlation, indices, time series, analyses of variance for two-way classification with and without interaction, design of experiments, reliability and validity of measurements and non-parametric tests.
MATH4003
HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: MATH2031 A survey course in the development of modern mathematics. Beginning with the rudimentary mathematical concepts developed in prehistoric times, mathematics grew sometimes slowly and sometimes rapidly with the insights of various cultures. In this course we trace this development through ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, classical Greece, Arabic and Hindu cultures of the Dark and Middle Ages, the European Renaissance and on into the modern times. Special attention will be paid to major developments such as the emergence of mathematics as an organized, reasoned and independent discipline in Classical Greece; the emergence and development of major areas of mathematics such as of algebra, trigonometry, productive geometry, calculus, analytic geometry infinite series, non-Euclidean geometry; and how developments in mathematical thought have shaped the modern world.
MATH4015
MODERN ABSTRACT ALGEBRA
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: MATH2031 An introduction to algebraic concepts such as groups, rings, integral domains and fields. The elementary number systems occupy a central place. Mappings, especially homorphisms, are introduced early and emphasized through out the course.
MATH4020
GEOMETRY
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: MATH2030 An overview of geometry in the light of modern trends with attention to axiomatic structure, including an introduction to hyperbolic and elliptic figures as geometric structures together with an overview of projective geometry.
MATH4035
REAL ANALYSIS
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: MATH2031 An introductory to classical (real) analysis. Includes a rigorous treatment of logic, set theory, functions, countable and uncountable sets, the real number system, metric spaces, sequences, series, differentiation and integration.
Foundation Courses (Includes 18 credits of Humanities and Social Science courses): 46 credits
CHEM1001
GENERAL CHEMISTRY I
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
A study of the basic principles governing matter, energy and matter-energy interaction. Topics include atomic structure, bonding theory, aggregated states of matter, stoichiometry, thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium and electrochemistry.
PREREQUISITES:
Concurrent: CHEM1003
CHEM1002
GENERAL CHEMISTRY II
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: CHEM1001 A study of the basic principles governing matter, energy and matter-energy interaction. Topics include atomic structure, bonding theory, aggregated states of matter, stoichiometry, thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium and electrochemistry.
PREREQUISITES:
Concurrent: CHEM1004
CHEM1003
GENERAL CHEMISTRY I - LAB
Credits (Min/Max): 1/1
A series of experiments related to the content of CHEM1001 emphasizing laboratory techniques and familiarization with basic laboratory equipment. Open to all science majors and non-science majors with a strong interest in chemistry or a professional need.
CHEM1004
GENERAL CHEMISTRY II - LAB
Credits (Min/Max): 1/1
PREREQUISITE: CHEM1003 A series of experiments related to the content of CHEM1002, emphasizing laboratory techniques and familiarization with basic laboratory equipment. Open to all science majors and non-science majors with a strong interest in chemistry or a professional need.
CSCI1010
PROGRAMMING I
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: CSCI1002 This course introduces the art of algorithm design and problem solving in the context of computer programming. The basic structure and logic of the Java language is presented. Topics covered include data types and operators, control flow, repetition and loop statements, arrays and pointers. Good programming practices will be taught and encouraged.
PREREQUISITES:
CSCI1002 or SLSC1005 or SLSC1012 & Concur: CSCI1010L
CSCI1010L
PROGRAMMING I - LAB
Credits (Min/Max): 1/1
Lab work for CSCI1010 Programming I.
MATH1032
ANALYTIC GEOMETRY AND CALCULUS I
Credits (Min/Max): 4/4
PREREQUISITE: MATH1010 The first semester of a three-semester integrated course in the elements of analytic geometry and differential and integral calculus. Included are the concept and applications of the derivative of a function of a single variable, differentiation of polynomials and the trigonometric functions, the chain, product and quotient rules, implicit differentiation, and differentials. Concludes with anti-differentiation, integration, area under graphs of functions and applications.
MATH1033
ANALYTIC GEOMETRY AND CALCULUS
Credits (Min/Max): 4/4
PREREQUISITE: MATH1032 A continuation of MATH1032 including applications of the definite integral, area, arc length, volumes and surface area, centroids, average value and theorem of the mean for definite integrals. Derivatives and integrals of transcendental functions are followed by techniques of integration, L'Hopital's Rule and indeterminate forms and improper integrals. Also included are conic sections and polar coordinates.
PHYS1032
GENERAL PHYSICS I
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: MATH1032 This is the first of a three-semester introduction to calculus-based physics stressing experimental and problem-solving techniques. Concepts covered are mechanics, kinematics, Newton’s laws of motion, conservation laws, rotational motion, gravitation, oscillation, and wave/acoustics.
PREREQUISITES:
MATH1032, Coreq: PHYS1032L
PHYS1032L
GENERAL PHYSICS I - LAB
Credits (Min/Max): 1/1
PREREQUISITE: MATH1032 Laboratory for PHYS1032 General Physics I
PHYS1033
GENERAL PHYSICS II
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: PHYS1032 The second of a three-semester introduction to calculus-based physics. Concepts covered are thermal properties and electromagnetism: thermo dynamics, electricity, magnetism, electromagnetic wave, geometrical optics, and physics optics.
PREREQUISITES:
PHYS1032, Coreq: PHYS1033L
PHYS1033L
GENERAL PHYSICS II - LAB
Credits (Min/Max): 1/1
Laboratory for PHYS1033 General Physics II
Mathematics: 6 credits
MATH2031
ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
PREREQUISITE: MATH2030 A study of first and second order differential equations, infinite series, Laplace transforms and power series together with existence of solution and uniqueness theorems.
MATH3015
LINEAR ALGEBRA
Credits (Min/Max): 3/3
A development of the theory of vector spaces from linear equations, matrices and determinants. Topics include linear independence, bases, dimensions, linear mappings, orthogonal reduction, diagonalization of matrices using eigenvectors and eigenvalues.