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ECE-4504: Computer Organization

Description: Overview of the structure, elements and analysis of modern enterprise computers. Performance evaluation of commercial computing. Past and emerging technology trends. Impact of parallelism at multiple levels of computer architecture. Memory and storage. Fundamental computer system descriptions, Amdahls Law, Flynns Taxonomy. A grade of C or better required in prerequisites.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: CS-3214 or ECE-3504

Required By: ECE-5504

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: CS-4504

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 15

Average GPA: 3.05 (B+)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 29.45%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 3.68%

Kirk W Cameron200829.6%31.8%21.2%8.3%9.1%0.0%2.712
Joann M Paul201259.6%36.3%4.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.534
Haibo Zeng202141.4%35.0%14.7%1.1%3.9%3.9%3.103
Wu Chun Feng202429.4%20.2%28.0%14.9%0.0%7.5%2.623
Mark T Jones201740.6%25.7%20.4%0.0%2.6%10.5%3.062
Jung Min Park200524.1%55.2%17.2%0.0%3.4%0.0%3.001

Grade Distribution Over Time