Pre-approved Electives | Department of Computer Science

The Master of Engineering Program in Computer Science allows students the freedom to design a program that enhances their knowledge in specific areas of interest. Students can augment their Computer Science requirements by taking courses outside of CS in several different areas. Browse through Courses of Study (the Cornell course catalog) and Course and Time Roster to see what is offered during the upcoming semester.

* Please note that although the courses below are pre-approved for CS MEng credit, some might not be available due to enrollment restrictions. If a course is not open to students outside of the offering field, please let us know and we will remove them from the list.

Below are some commonly chosen courses outside of Computer Science which have been pre-approved to count towards CS M.Eng. Degree credit.

If a course you are interested in is not listed below please send an e-mail to the M.Eng curriculum committee requesting a review of the course for degree credit. Please include the course description.
If a course is 5000 level or above and cross-listed with a CS course at the 5000 level or above it is automatically considered approved.
If a course is at 5000 level or above and cross-listed with a CS course below the 5000 level it will not be approved.
All courses outside of CS need pre-approval, if not pre-approved the course may not be counted towards degree credit.
No courses outside of Computer Science will be counted as a required Computer Science credit.
Not all of these courses are offered every year.

Information Science

INFO 5101 Learning Analytics
INFO 5200 Information Policy: Applied Research and Analysis
INFO 5240 Designing Technology for Social Impact
INFO 5250 Surveillance and Privacy
INFO 5301 Ethics in New Media, Technology and Communication
INFO 5321 Intro to Rapid Prototyping and Physical Computing
INFO 5355 Human-Computer Interaction Design
INFO 5505 Computing and Global Development
INFO 5556 Business Intelligence Systems
INFO 6113 Technology and Law Colloquium
INFO 6120 Ubiquitous Computing
INFO 6140 Computational Psychology
INFO 6400 Qualitative User Research and Design Methods
INFO 6130 Health and Computation
INFO 6230 Games, Economic Behavior and the Internet
INFO 6648 Speech Synthesis by Rule
INFO 6850 The Structure of Information Networks

Johnson Graduate School of Management

NBA 5070 Entrepreneurship for Scientists and Engineers
NBA 5100 Social Entrepreneurship
NBA 5150 Leadership Theory and Practices
NBA 5380 The Business Idea Factory
NBA 5410 Project Management
NBA 5600 Demystifying Big Data and FinTech
NBA 5640 The Business of Entrepreneurship
NBA 5690 Management Consulting Essentials
NBA 5770 Entrepreneurship in Creative Industries
NBA 6010 Electronic Business (formerly Electronic Commerce)
NBA 6070 Designing Data Products
NBA 6120 Disruptive Technologies
NBA 6130 Women and Leadership
NBA 6145 AI Strategy and Applications
NBA 6390 Data-Driven Marketing
NBA 6920 Machine Learning Applications in Business
NBA 6921 Artificial Intelligence for Marketing Strategy

Operations Research & Industrial Engineering

OR&IE 5140 Model Based Systems Engineering
OR&IE 5270 Big Data Technologies
OR&IE 5300 Optimization II
OR&IE 5310 Optimization II
OR&IE 5350 Introduction to Game Theory
OR&IE 5500 Engineering Probability and Statistics II
OR&IE 5510 Intro to Engineering Stochastic Processes I
ORIE 5581 Monte Carlo Simulation
OR&IE 5600 Financial Engineering with Stochastic Calculus I
OR&IE 5610 Financial Engineering with Stochastic Calculus II
OR&IE 5640 Statistics for Financial Engineering
OR&IE 5740 Statistical Data Mining I
OR&IE 5741 Learning with Big Messy Data
OR&IE 6500 Applied Stochastic Processes
OR&IE 6741 Bayesian Machine Learning

Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE 5412 Bayesian Estimation and Stochastic Optimization
ECE 5420 Fundamentals of Machine Learning
ECE 5470 Computer Vision
ECE 5660 Computer Networks and Telecommunications
ECE 5620 Fundamentals of Data Compression
ECE 5630 Information Theory for Data Transmission, Security and Machine Learning
ECE 5670 Digital Communications
ECE 5710 Datacenter Computing
ECE 5720 Introduction to Parallel Computing
ECE 5725 Design with Embedded Operating Systems
ECE 5740 Computer Architecture
ECE 5750 Advanced Computer Architecture
ECE 5772 Autonomous Mobile Robots
ECE 5780 Computer Analysis of Biomed Images

Civil and Environmental Engineering

CEE 5980 Decision Framing and Analytics
CEE 5900 Project Management
CEE 5930 Data Analytics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

MAE 5180 Autonomous Mobile Robots
MAE 5750 Robotic Manipulation
MAE 5810 Robot Perception

Statistical Science

STSCI 5065 Big Data Management and Analysis
STSCI 5740 Data Mining and Machine Learning

Engineering Management

ENGMT 5900 Project Management
ENGMT 5930 Data Analytics
ENGMT 5980 Decision Framing and Analytics

Biomedical Engineering

BME 5780 Computer Analysis of Biomed Images

Systems Engineering

SYSEN 5400 Theory and Practice of Systems Architecture
SYSEN 5860 Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence
SYSEN 6880 Industrial Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning
SYSEN 6888 Deep Learning

Science and Technology Studies:

STS 6241 Science Technology and International Security
STS 6321 Inside Technology
STS 6661 Public Engagement in Science