Welcome to the Department of Computer Science at Tennessee Technological University. Now is a great time to study computer science. Whether the economy is weak or strong, the skills we teach are needed in almost every industry and every sector of the economy.

We are proud to announce that we have recently appointed Dr. Stephen Scott as our Stonecipher/Boeing Distinguished Professor of Computing. This position includes faculty appointments in both Computer Science and Computer Engineering and a position as a senior research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Our growing department has over two hundred students from across the Southeast and from multiple foreign countries, and we offer three programs of study for students interested in computer-related careers. Undergraduate students can choose between our ABET-accredited software design and development concentration and our information technology concentration, and graduate students can obtain a Master's degree in Internet-Based Computing with specializations in Distributed and Parallel Computing, Information Assurance and Security, and Knowledge Discovery. Our courses also provide the core programming competency for students in a variety of disciplines including Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Web Design, Physics, and Mathematics.

Both undergraduate and graduate computer science students have opportunities to participate in research funded by diverse organizations. The agencies funding recent grants and contracts include the National Science Foundation, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Energy, the National Institutes for Health, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Our research students also contribute to publications and conference presentations. Additionally, we encourage our students to join a student chapter of our professional organization, ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery). We have both a traditional ACM chapter and a chapter of ACM-W to support women in computing, and we recently formed and support a Unix Users Group. Many of our undergraduates also work on our department's system administration team.

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