Fall 1996
Professor:
Ken Goldberg
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) Dept
University of California at
Berkeley
Lecture: MW 11-12, 3107 Etcheverry, Lab: F 11-1, 1173 Etcheverry
This course explores how databases are designed, implemented, used and maintained, with an emphasis on industrial and commercial applications. We focus on the relational database model and learn the mathematics of structured queries. Students will gain experience with a commercial database management system and will work in teams with local companies on a Design Project (DP) . Since the World Wide Web (WWW) is essentially a huge distributed multimedia database, we'll also learn how to design HTML pages, how to search and collect data on the web, and how the WWW is being used by industry.
``Student teams from two IEOR database design courses recently competed for $800 in prize money, placing their semester projects up for review before local technical gurus. Two juries of engineering professors and industry representatives rated the Web-based projects on the basis of creativity, database design, technical sophistication, functional richness, and user interface design. Prize money was donated by Anderson Consulting. "I was extremely impressed by how much the students accomplished in one semester," says assistant professor Ken Goldberg, who taught both courses. `Several have already gotten job offers and will probably be making more money than me this summer.''' -- Tamar Laddy, Berkeley College of Engineering Summer News, 1996.
Fall 96: Jury's Pick of Top Three Project Presentations (6 Dec 1996): Congrats!