Certificates are intended primarily for working professionals, and provide a "bite-sized" chunk of graduate coursework. See Professional Master of Computer Science (MCS) for additional information.

Required Certificate Prerequisites–must be completed prior to admission.
CSCD 210	PROGRAMMING PRINCIPLES I
CSCD 211	PROGRAMMING PRINCIPLES II
CSCD 300	DATA STRUCTURES
Certificate Requirements
CSCD 580	INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS	4
CSCD 583	MODELING AND SIMULATION	4
CSCD 601	RESEARCH REPORT	4
Total Credits		12

Students who successfully earn a Modeling and Simulation, Graduate Certificate from EWU should be able to understand a breadth and depth of topics, tools, and techniques in computational modeling, simulation, visualization, and analysis (MSVA):

• develop and investigate what if decision-making processes;
• employ scientific and engineering thinking and doing for disciplined problem solving;
• evaluate and report on proposed or actual decisions;
• experience a broad spectrum of real-world applications and examples;
• interconnect and holistically interrelate other computer science and engineering topics;
• select, justify, and apply appropriate modeling and simulation techniques;
• understand and connect the real world to the virtual world and vice versa.

Understand the foundation of artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent systems (IS):

• apply AI/IS programming techniques and software architectures;
• consider AI/IS roles in smart and mobile devices;
• devise and carry out a practical project for an AI/IS/MSVA topic of your choice;
• examine search strategies;
• investigate knowledge representation;
• model reasoning processes;
• understand AI/IS crossovers to other CS domains.