May 01, 2026  
2025-2026 University Academic Catalog 
    
2025-2026 University Academic Catalog
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CS 540 - Data Engineering

Credits: (3)
Instructional Method: Project-based with lectures
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing.
Cross-Listed: ITEC 440

Project-based learning experience to acquire programming skills to ingest, transform, and explore data. Students gain hands-on experience: (1) building pipelines to collect, process, visualize, and store data, and (2) assessing data quality while exploring, cleaning, and preparing data for analysis, machine learning, and other data science applications. Emphasizes programming techniques for parallel and distributed environments including server clusters and cloud computing.



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