18240 FUNDAMENTAL OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING

This course introduces basic issues in design and verification of modern digital systems. Topics include: Boolean algebra, digital number systems and computer arithmetic, combinational logic design and simplification, sequential logic design and optimization, register-transfer design of digital systems, basic processor organization and instruction set issues, assembly language programming and debugging, and a hardware description language. Emphasis is on the fundamentals: the levels of abstraction and hardware description language methods that allow designers to cope with hugely complex systems, and connections to practical hardware implementation problems. Students will use computer-aided digital design software and actual hardware implementation laboratories to learn about real digital systems. Prerequisites: 18100 Corequisites: 21-127

21127 CONCEPTS OF MATHEMATICS

This course introduces the basic concepts, ideas and tools involved in doing mathematics. As such, its main focus is on presenting informal logic, and the methods of mathematical proof. These subjects are closely related to the application of mathematics in many areas, particularly computer science. Topics discussed include a basic introduction to elementary number theory, induction, the algebra of sets, relations, equivalence relations, congruences, partitions, and functions, including injections, surjections, and bijections. A prerequisite for 15-211. 3 hrs. lec., 2 hrs. rec.

21256 MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS APPROXIMATION

Taylor’s Theorem; geometric sequences and series and their applications in finance; vectors and matrices, lines, and planes; partial derivatives, directional derivatives, gradient, chain rule, maximum-minimum problems, Lagrange multipliers and the Kuhn-Tucker Theorem. 3 hrs. lec., 2 hrs. rec. Prerequisites: 21-116 or 21-121

36220 ENGINEERING STATISTICS & QUALITY CONTROL

This is a course in introductory statistics for engineers with emphasis on modern product improvement techniques. Besides basic probability, distribution theory and statistical inference, special topics include exploratory data analysis, experimental design, regression, control charts and acceptance sampling. In addition to two lectures a week, students will attend a computer lab once a week. Not open to students who have received credit for 36-202, 36-208/70-208, 36- 226, 36-326, or 36-247. Prerequisites: 21-111 or 21-116 or 21-121.

73250 INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS

The process by which the decisions of business firms and households interacting through a price system, influence the allocation of resources in a market economy. To be discontinued and replaced by 73-251 in Fall 2003. Prerequisites: 73-100 and (21-112, 21-116 or 21-121).