ITEC 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.