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Proposal forMaster of Engineering Degree
inGames and Media Integration (GMI)College of
Engineering and Applied ScienceUniversity of
Colorado at Colorado Springs
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Background

• Minor in Games Design
• GDD degree program
• Recruiting efforts in the local high school
• Interaction with the industry
• HCI research collaboration
• Conversation with the community
• MEngg in GMI degree program

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GMI Program Committee

• Professor Sudhanshu Semwal, Computer Science
• Professor Valerie Brodar, Visual and Performing
  Arts
• Professor Tim Chamillard, Computer Science
• Professor Dan Dandapani, ECE
• Professor Robert von Dassanowsky, Director of
  Film Studies
• Professor Chip Benight (Psychology)
• Professor Bob Melamede, Biology
• Murray Ross, Artistic Director TheatreWorks

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Required Courses

• CS580 Introduction to Computer Graphics (1)
• CS578 3D Games and Digital Contents Creation (1)
• CS572 Design and Analysis of Algorithms (2)
• Are already offered every year to support present
  degree program.
• Required for Minor in Game Design
• Required for MS in CS

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Required

• Required Masters of Engineering Thesis (up to 6
  credit hours) or Project (3 credit hours)
• Student will be expected to work with an advisor
  in the GMI area of concentration following the
  guidelines of MS Thesis or Project work in the CS
  Department.
• Required GMI Portfolio Development (up to 6
  credit hours)
• Note Student can not take more than a total of
  9 credit hours for their Masters of Engineering
  Thesis or Project, and the GMI portfolio. For
  example, if a student takes 6 credit hours of
  portfolio development then only 3 credit hours
  would be allowed for MS thesis or project.
  Similarly, if a student takes 6 credit hours of
  MS thesis then the portfolio can only be a
  maximum of 3 credit hours.
• This requirement allows student to take up to 21
  credit hours of courses from the following list.

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Portfolio

• Will involve completed works with an
  interdisciplinary focus.
• Student will work with at least one faculty
  member from CS and at least one faculty member
  from LAS.
• Complete works are expected to be submitted to
  SigGraph Animation and Film Festival,
  International Symposium on Wearable Computing,
  variety of virtual reality and HCI interaction
  conference, Game Developers Conference, or other
  related venues around the world.

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Portfolio

• Portfolio advisory committee would consist of
  three faculty members from the consisting of at
  least one CS graduate faculty member and, if
  applicable one faculty member from LAS. The
  third member should preferably come from a local
  industry representing, e.g. the SigGraph, IGDA
  community with major portfolio development
  experience.
• Dr. Semwal would be initially the CS member.
• Portfolio may include interdisciplinary
  applications and completed works by student.
  Suggested applications, with strong GMI emphasis
  areas, include but are not limited to
  applications integrated in TheatreWorks
  Productions with strong GMI emphasis, Digital
  Animation Movie Production and/or Production of
  Game Coordination with center of aging, visual
  and performing arts, and disability applications.
  
• The student would be required to show an ability
  to completely realize their individual
  contributions resulting in possibly a high
  quality exhibit, movie, or game.

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List of elective coursesList One

• Remainder of 12 credit hours would be from the
  following elective courses. Some courses have
  prerequisites as noted. New courses are
  identified in bold.
• (i) CS 577 Animation and Visualization ()
• (ii) CS 677 Virtual Reality and Human Computer
  Interaction ()
• (iii) CS 571 Evolutionary Computation
  ()Advanced
• (iv) CS575 Computational Geometry ()
• (v) CS581 Advanced Computer Graphics/Morphing
  ()
• (vi) CS678 Advanced Digital Effects and Olfactory
  applications
• (vii) CS 579 Wearable Computing and Complex
  Systems ()
• (viii) CS 525 MultiMedia ()
• (ix) AI I ()
• (x) CS 522 Commuter Networks ()
• Sufficient for a student to have 7-7-7-7-2 cycle
  or 9-9-9-3 cycle. Only may need one or two of
  the above courses per semester.

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Additional Courses if necessaryList Two

• (xi) CS 584 Computer Vision (prerequisites)
  Advanced
• (xii) CS505 Computational Computer Vision
  (prerequisites)Advanced
• (xiii) ECE5530 Multivariate control I
  (prerequisites) Advanced
• (xiv) ECE5520 Multivariate Control II
  (prerequisites) Advanced
• (xv) CS587 Introduction to Artificial Neural
  Networks ()
• (xvi) CS551 Distributed Systems (requires CS550
  Operating Systems) Advanced
• (xvii) MAE 5130-001  Advanced Fluid Dynamics
  (prerequisites)Advanced
• (xviii) CS526 Advanced Web Systems and Internet
  ()
• (xix) AI II (Advanced)
• (xi) CS 589 Computational Lingusitics
  (prerequisites) Advanced
• May be taken by some students who can not take
  the courses in List One.

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Samples of student work

• Chris Koenert, Ed Mucker, David Norman early game
  thesis
• Richard Doyle Celtic Design
• Water simulation work CThomas Wolfe 2nd place
  locally
• Crimson Tide (movie from Colorado Springs)
• Soccer, planes etc.

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More

• Intel donated 50,000 gift for Game related lab
• Existing courses are sufficient
• Small program within EAS MEngg series of degree
  program
• Student more marketable as portfolio development
  is required by industry
• Small number of industries (RustCylce Black
  Lodge NewtPrism .)
• Cross college collaboration

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More .

• Would interest GDD, BS student
• Helps with getting contracts with the east-coast
  west coast industry
• Would provide potential students for PhD Engg
  program
• UCCS survey makes this a 6th choice of top three
  choices of students

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More .

• ATR Sense of smell experiments showcasing
  technology using game situation
• VR, graphics, networks, AI technology showcase
• Animation houses/ Bollywood connection
• Makes our student and UCCS more marketable to the
  industry