COMPUTER ENGINEERING
GRADUATE ADMISSIONS DEFICIENCY COURSES
Computer Engineering graduate students should have knowledge in the following topics prior to
applying for the program at Arizona State University: Signals and Systems, Signal Analysis,
Discrete Math, Computer Architecture & Organization, and Algorithms & Data Structures.
CSE 230 COMPUTER ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSEMBLY
LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING (3)
Register-level computer organization. Instruction set architecture. Assembly language. Processor
organization and design. Memory organization. IO programming, Exception/interrupt handling.
Prerequisites: CSE 100, CSE 110, CSE 120, or EEE 120.
CSE 310 DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS (3)
Advanced data structures and algorithms, including stacks, queues, trees (B, B+, AVL), and
graphs. Searching for graphs, hashing and external sorting.
Prerequisite: CSE 220 or CSE 240; and MAT 243.
EEE 203 SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS (3)
Introduces continuous and discrete time signal and system analysis, linear systems, Fourier, and
z-transforms.
Pre-requisites: EEE 202; Pre-requisite: MAT 242 with C or better if completed or Pre/Co-
requisite: MAT 342 or 343 with C or better if completed
EEE 350 RANDOM SIGNAL ANALYSIS (3)
Probabilistic and statistical analysis as applied to electrical signals and systems
Prerequisite(s): MAE 317 or pre- or co-requisite: EEE 203;
MAT 243 DISCRETE MATH STRUCTURES (3)
Logic, sets, functions, elementary number theory and combinatorics, recursive algorithms, and
mathematical reasoning, including induction. Emphasizes connections to computer science.
Prerequisites: MAT 210, MAT 251, MAT 265, or MAT 270.