Computer Science | College of Science & Engineering

A photo of the WWU team with their trophy after winning second place in the 2018 Pacific Rim Cyber Defense Competition.
One CS senior project group took to the skies above Bellingham to test a camera they designed to control from the cockpit.
Computer Science is located on the 4th floor of the Communications Facility (CF.)
Students and faculty at the 2016 Grace Hopper Celebration in Houston, TX
On a spring afternoon, Instructor Dr. Aran Clauson holds his Senior Project lecture on the lawn in front of the CS department.
Robot sumo for the final competition of Dr. Jianna Zhang's Intro to Robotics course.
Mary Hall, Program Coordinator for Advising in the CS Department, meets with a student.
In Boston, MA at the New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports, where Dr. Brian Hutchinson presented three posters with two of his student researchers.
Students at the Northwest Regional Women in Computing Conference at the Intel campus in Hillsboro, OR
Sunset over the oval lawn and the hard-working students in the Computer Science labs.

What does the CS Department offer?

Computer Science is one of the fastest-growing fields of study at Western, and the faculty seek to find ways to challenge students in various areas such as Game Programming, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, or Bioinformatics. Just imagine harnessing the raw processing power of a 300-core cluster computer, testing the vulnerability of a company’s firewall against cyber-attack, or working with a team to build the next great mobile game. Whatever your interest may be, the Computer Science Department can help you pursue it! The CS Department seeks to prepare its graduates for a variety of occupations, including working for such industry giants as Amazon, Boeing, Google, and Microsoft.