EE 547: Applied and Cloud Computing for Electrical Engineers

University of Southern California, Fall 2025

Schedule

Week 1

Aug 26

Lecture 1Distributed systems for ML. Memory hierarchies, parallelization strategies

Week 2

Sep 2

Lecture 2Containers and orchestration. Kubernetes, fault tolerance

Homework 1Docker, ArXiv API, Multi-Container Pipelines

Week 3

Sep 9

Lecture 3Cloud Computing Fundamentals

Week 4

Sep 16

Homework 2HTTP Services, ML Embeddings, and AWS Fundamentals

Week 5

Sep 23

Lecture 4Structured Storage and Query Systems

Week 6

Sep 30

Lecture 4Databases and storage. SQL and Relational Databases

Week 7

Oct 7

Lecture 5NoSQL and Distributed Databases

Week 8

Oct 14

Lecture 6API Design

Week 9

Oct 21

Lecture 7Web Interfaces: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Homework 3Relational Databases and NoSQL Data Modeling

Week 10

Oct 28

LectureDynamic Web Applications

Project 1Draft proposal due (31 Oct)

Week 11

Nov 4

Meeting 1Project proposal meetings

Week 12

Nov 11

Project 2Revised proposal due (09 Nov)

Week 13

Nov 18

LectureDynamic Web Applications

Week 14

Nov 25

Lecture 9Cloud Patterns: Storage, Serverless, and Coordination

Week 15

Dec 2

Meeting 2Project meetings and wrap-up

Project 3Status report due (30 Nov)

Week Finals

Dec 11	Presentation 1Technical review and demos, 14:00 - 17:00
Dec 15	Project 4Project deliverables due, 12:00