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IT Concentration: Electronic Commerce
For those entering the program Fall 2005 semester & beyond
Contact Person: Cheng Hsu
Description:
The e-Commerce concentration develops the skills and knowledge required to apply Information Technology to a new generation of enterprises. The new generation has been customarily referred to as e-commerce and e-business; but it is also being increasingly associated with such visions as On-Demand Business, On-Demand Service, and On-Demand Engineering. The field continues to evolve and provide exciting new opportunities to professionals. The essence of these new enterprises is mass-customization: how to use IT to share common resources among vastly diverse services and products over massive networks (both physical and informational) toward satisfying users' individual needs at an affordable cost. The scientific foundations of the required skills and knowledge are consistent with those of system engineering, information systems, and enterprise planning. The curriculum of this concentration, therefore, encompasses these areas and integrates all topics using the models of the new enterprises.
Compared to other, related concentrations such as management information systems and industrial engineering, e-Commerce is directly driven by new enterprises. Therefore, learning how to apply the basic skills and knowledge to create new models and new visions is as important as learning these skills and knowledge per se. The unique ability and opportunity to forge new applications of IT (enterprises) based on the scientific foundations acquired reward the graduates of this concentration. The typical employers come not only from the "new economy" — the Internet-based companies, but also from traditional companies that are heavy IT users. The graduates will follow a similar career path as other IT majors (e.g., entering as an analyst and moving up to become an officer), but this concentration will appeal in particular to employers that seek skills and knowledge to innovate and renovate their enterprises and enterprise systems.
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Semester II |
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ITEC-1210 Information in History & Society
CSCI-1100 Computer Science I
MATH-1010 Calculus I
MGMT-1100 Introduction to Management
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ITEC-1220 Politics and Economics of IT
CSCI-1200 Computer Science II
MGMT-1260 External Environment of Business
Math Elective
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| Semester III |
Semester IV |
| ECSE-2610 Computer Components & Operations
ENGR-2350 Embedded Control
ITEC-2110 Exploiting the Information World
ITEC-2960 Creativity and IT
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ECSE-2660 Computer Arch, Networking & OS
ITEC-2210 Intro to Human Computer Interaction
MGMT-2300 Fundamentals of Accounting for Decision Making
MGMT-2320 Managerial Finance
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| Semester V |
Semester VI |
| CSCI-4380 Database Systems (IT Elective)
ITEC-4310 Managing IT Resources
MGMT-4550 Introduction to E-Business
H&SS Elective**
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One of:
-DSES-4650 Operations Research II
-DSES-6570 IT & Systems for E-Business
-MGMT-4962 Enterprise Information Architecture
Probability and Statistics Elective (one of):
- ENGR-2600 Modeling / Analysis of Uncertainty
- MGMT-2100 Statistical Methods
- PSYC-2310 Experimental Methods & Statistics
Life Science Elective (BIOL-XXXX)
H&SS Elective**
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| Semester VII |
Semester VIII |
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ITEC-4100 IT Capstone Experience
MGMT-496X Data Resource Management
H&SS Elective**
Free Elective
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One of:
-DSES-4810 Computational Intelligence
-DSES-4780 Computational Organization
-DSES-6520 Enterprise Database Systems
Physical Science Elective (PHYS-XXXX)
H&SS Elective**
Free Elective
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Students are encouraged to undertake a capstone project in the concentration (either MGMT-4940 or DSES-4940) as a free elective.
**See H&SS requirements
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