What could you do with our undergraduate programs?
Creating apps to track diseases, designing systems to predict weather, or improving how stores manage their inventory. It's all about taking what we know about computers and using it to make life better and easier for everyone.
A graduate could work on mapping areas at risk of natural disasters like floods or wildfires. They would use satellite images, GPS data, and computer models to create detailed maps showing where disasters are most likely to happen. This information helps communities prepare by planning evacuation routes, building safer structures, and protecting important resources. Their work can save lives and reduce damage when disasters strike.
Minors & Certificates
What could you do with an Applied Software Development degree?
Work on designing safer, more efficient airplanes. They would use computer simulations to test how different designs handle wind and weather without needing to build real prototypes for every test. They'd also analyze large amounts of data from past flights to find patterns that help improve performance and safety. This helps make air travel safer and more affordable.
An applied software developer might develop a mobile app that helps patients track their medications and send reminders when it’s time to take them. The app could also connect to a doctor’s system, allowing the doctor to monitor the patient’s progress and adjust treatments if needed. This makes healthcare more efficient and helps patients stay healthier.
Advising
Questions about our programs?
Prospective students can contact our academic advisor Daxuan Qi - dqi@uwyo.edu.
Current students can schedule an appointment.
School of Computing Advising Resources
Our Purpose:
- Nurture computing curiosity across disciplines and backgrounds
- Enhance interdisciplinarity
- Capitalize upon emerging innovations for teaching, research, and economic diversification
Benefits for Students:
- Opportunities to enhance careers potential by gaining computing literacy
- Skills to address societal problems
- Direct career pathways to Smart Agriculture, Fin-tech, AI-enabled tourism, healthcare, Internet of Things, Cybersecurity and Law, etc.
Benefits to Wyoming:
- Supply a workforce for Wyoming with 21st-Century skills
- Catalyze and nurture innovation by partnering with the Wyoming Outdoor Recreation, Tourism and Hospitality (WORTH) program and the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) through the Wyoming Innovation network
- Enable Wyoming corporations and help attract tech companies to Wyoming
- Help transform the way the University of Wyoming (and Wyoming) operates
- Help us preserve the Wyoming we love by resolving complex problems
Educational Opportunities:
- Developing Undergraduate concentrations, minor, BA/BS degrees in computing with multiple tracks
- Computing in Context
- Diversity in interests and student body
- Focus on the use of computing/technology to analyze and solve problems and to innovate
- Experiential, project-based learning with internship opportunities
- Multiple pathways to meet student interest and career goals
- Collaborative with opportunities to work with different stakeholders
- Adapt to emerging topics and opportunities in the workplace
Programmatic Elements in the works:
- Added expertise in critical areas of computing, person-power
- Interdisciplinary research groups focused on important societal issues led by SoC faculty and comprised of faculty across UW campus
- Wyoming Computing Undergraduate Scholars program
- Strong ties with K-14 Computing Initiatives across Wyoming, and strong commitment to high-quality training of future teachers in computing
- Corporate partnership program
- MA, MS, PhD programs as the school grows
- Provide a supportive environment that values and embraces diverse perspectives from faculty, staff, and students alike
- Strategic partnerships with UW programs, other universities, and national labs
- Aggressive pursuit of research funding
Undergraduate/Graduate options in development:
- Undergraduate BA/BS in Computing (in approval process)
- Undergraduate BS in Data Science (responding to Math and Stats led effort, in development process)
- Undergraduate minor in Data Science (potential first target for broad data science
- Post Baccalaureate Certificate (conceptualized, TBD)
- MS in Artificial Intelligence (available Fall 2025)
- MS in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (available Fall 2025)
- PhD in Computing (TBD)
Computational Programs offered at UW outside the SoC:
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College of Education Secondary Computer Science Endorsement College of Business College of Engineering and Physical Sciences |
Computer Science, Big Data Concentration, B.S. Computer Science, Computers and Business Concentration, B.S. |
