0 or 3 credits
Fall 2026 Laboratory Lecture Lower Division
This course introduces concepts and principles of cloud computing and the virtualization of computing resources and services for smart manufacturing applications. The fundamental topics of cloud computing will be addressed, including virtually processing, storing, modeling and analyzing of data in the cloud environment. Fundamental concepts about cloud tools, applications, and services from a production and manufacturing perspective will be presented.
Learning Outcomes1State the challenges and advantages of cloud computing in smart manufacturing.
2Explain the concepts and principles of cloud computing such as a scalability, elasticity, agility, fault tolerance, disaster recovery and networking.
3Recognize the models, tools, and service types offered by the different cloud platforms for smart manufacturing applications.
4Select strategies for managing and optimizing cloud computing resources for different manufacturing applications.
5Apply techniques in clouding computing to model and manage manufacturing data.
6Build manufacturing apps using cloud based platform tools and services.
Prerequisites
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