CIS Department Overview

Who We Are:

• Six Full-Time Faculty, Five of Whom have Doctoral Degrees
• Most Faculty Involved in Consulting Activities and/or Research
• Expertise in a Wide Variety of Science Fields

What We Offer:

• Rigorous Curriculum based on ACM/IEEE Model Curriculum
• Small Classes and Direct Interaction with Faculty
• Hands-On Projects
• Department Scholarships
• Paid Internship Opportunities

What You will Experience as a Student in our Curriculum:

• Structured Programming
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Development of Graphical and Web-Based Applications
• Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
• Systems Analysis and Design
• Software Engineering
• Network Design and Troubleshooting
• Database Management
• System Administration
• Computer Security

Research Topics:

• High-Performance and Cluster Computing
• CUDA Programming
• 2D and 3D Graphics
• Game Programming
• Robotics
• Data Mining

CIS Majors have access to the Washburn High-Performance Academic Computing Environment (HiPACE) system as well as a small Computing Cluster built and maintained by the CIS Department.