Computer Engineering Qualifying Exam Information
Exam Dates: January 2008
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Revised Guidelines for Qualifying Exam
Computer Engineering Qualifying Exam Committee Members
FAQ for Computer Engineering Qual Exam
Past Qualifying Exams in Computer Engineering
Important Dates for the August Qualifying Exam (Tentative)
Dec. 14 , 2007-- Declare intent to take the Qualifying Exam and state your selections of primary and secondary areas. (Please submit by email to Natalie Edwards.)
Dec. 14 , 2007 -- Submit G105 to the Graduate Dean's Office.
Jan 2, 2008 -- Student will submit a 3-page written report on the Type-1 paper to Prof. Dugan by email.
January 14 or 15, 2008-- Provide the Director of CpE with a partially completed G107 (Qualifying Exam Report) at the time of the exam. The form will be completed by the committee and submitted to the CpE office after the exam.
January 2008 Papers List
The areas identified in Computer Engineering Graduate Handbook for the qualifiers are as follows:
- Computer Architecture
- VLSI, Switching Theory
- Operating Systems, Real-Time and Embedded Systems
- Compilers, Software Systems and Software Engineering
- Fault-tolerant Computing and Reliability Engineering
- Networks, Distributed Systems and Security
Please read the handbook carefully and note the committee’s expectations. The committee will both “ assess the student’s potential to begin doctoral-level research,” as well as examine fundamental understanding by asking questions on “related topics.” Therefore, students should not only understand the problem and solution presented in the paper (and demonstrate the “abilities” listed in the handbook), but also, be responsible for background material (which is *not* limited to references in the paper) for the question-answer session.
Official List of papers for the Computer Engineering Qualifiers
Computer Architecture
Dean, R.K, .Tullsen, M., and Jouppi, M. P., "Core Architecture Optimization for Heterogeneous Chip Multiprocessors," PACT’06, September 16–20, 2006, Seattle, Washington, USA.
VLSI, Switching Theory
Kim, D., Chung, K., Yu,C-H., Kim, C-H., Lee, I., Bae, J., Kim, Y-J., Park, J-H., Kim, S., Park, Y-H., Seong, N-H., Lee, J-A., Park J., Oh, S., Jeong, S-W., and Kim, L-S., "An SoC With 1.3 Gtexels/s 3-D Graphics Full Pipeline for Consumer Applications," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, VOL. 41, NO. 1, January 2006.
Operating Systems, Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Anderson, T. E., Bershad, B. N., Lazowska, E. D., and Levy, H. M., "Scheduler Activations: Effective Kernel Support for the User-Level Management of Parallelism," ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 10, No. 1, February 1992, Pages 53-79.
Compilers, Software Systems and Software Engineering
Mangeruca, L., Baleani, M., Ferrari, A., and Sangiovanni-Vincentell, A., "Semantics-Preserving Design of Embedded Control Software from Synchronous Models, " IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 33, NO. 8, August 2007.
Fault-tolerant Computing and Reliability Engineering
Porter, A., Yilmaz, C., Memon, A. M., Schmidt, D., Natarajan, B., "Skoll: A Process and Infrastructure for Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance,: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 33, No. 8, August 2007.
Networks, Distributed Systems & Security
Kohler E., Handley, M., Floyd, S., "Designing DCCP: Congestion Control Without Reliability," SIGCOMM’06, September 11–15, 2006, Pisa, Italy.
The Computer Engineering Committee Members
Joanne Bechta Dugan, Chair
Marty Humphrey
Mircea Stan
Kamin Whitehouse
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