This course is aimed at helping students build up an understanding of how to develop a software system from scratch by guiding them thru the development process and giving them the fundamental principles of system development with object oriented technology using UML. The course will initiate students to the different software process models, project management, software requirements engineering process, systems analysis and design as a problem-solving activity, key elements of analysis and design, and the place of the analysis and design phases within the system development life cycle.

This course introduces students to the wide field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with emphasis on its use to solve real world problems. Students will be trained to get a basic and solid understanding of various fundamental topics of Artificial Intelligence including searching, knowledge representation and reasoning, rule based systems and machine learning. This course is also an opportunity for students to discover AI based technologies. It should review how AI techniques have been incorporated by companies to enhance traditional business applications.