Salale University General Tadese Biru

Campus
College of Natural Science

Course Title Introduction to Emerging Technologies

Course Credits Credit 3 or ECTS: 5 (3 Hr. lectures)
Code EmTe 1012 Year
Target Major Social/ Natural Science 1st Year
Instructor Name Office Hour Email
Mr. Diriba. R (MSc) ……….. ………………….
By the end of this course the student will able to:
Course Goal Identify different emerging technologies
 Differentiate different emerging technologies
 Select appropriate technology and tools for a given task
 Identify necessary inputs for application of emerging technologies
This course will enable students to explore current breakthrough technologies in the
Course areas of Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Augmented Reality that have
Description emerged over the past few years. Besides helping learners become literate in emerging
technologies, the course will prepare them to use technology in their respective
professional preparations.
Attendance and Class Participation :Students must attend above 80% the lecture
Assessment classes
Method Mid-exam 30%
Quize, Assignment and Presentation 20%
Final Examination 50%
 Late projects and assignments are not accepted.
Teaching Lecture, Tutorial and presentation
Methods

Department of Computer Science

Course Outline

1
 Table 1. Content of the course
Chapter Title Detailed Content
 Evolution of technologies
 Introduction to Industrial revolution
 Historical background (IR 1.0, IR 2.0, IR 3.0, IR 4.0)
Introduction to Emerging  Role of data for Emerging technologies
1
Technologies  Enabling devices and networks for emerging
technologies (programmable devices)
 Human to Machine Interaction
 Future trends in emerging technologies
 Overview for Data Science
2 Introduction to Data  Definition of data and information
Science  Data types and representation
 Data Value Chain
 Basic concepts of Big data
 Introduction to AI
 What is AI
 Levels of AI
3 Artificial Intelligence(AI)  Types of AI
 Applications of AI
 AI tools and platforms
 Sample application with hands on activity
 Overview of IOT
 What is IOT?
 Advantages of IOT
Internet of Things (IoT)  Challenges of IOT
4  Architecture of IOT
 Devices and network
 Applications of IOT
 IOT tools and platforms
 Sample application

2
  Introduction to AR
 Virtual reality, Augmented Reality vs mixed reality
Augmented Reality (AR)  Architecture of AR systems.
5
 Application of AR systems

Ethics and professionalism  Technology and ethics

of emerging technologies  Digital privacy
6
 Accountability and trust
 Treats and challenges
 Nanotechnology
 Biotechnology
 Block chain technology
 Cloud and quantum computing
7 Other emerging technologies  Autonomic computing
 Computer vision
 Embed systems
 Cyber security
 Additive manufacturing (3D Printing) Etc.

References
 Wolfgang Ertel, Nathanael T. Black, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 2018
 Laura Igual and Santi Segui, Introduction to Data Science, Publishing Switzerland, 2017.
 Bruno Arnaldi, Pascal Guitton, Guillaume Moreau, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality: My ISTE, 2018.
 Module
 https://wcu.edu.et/FirstYearModule/EMERGING%20TECHNOLOGIES%20module.pdf