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MSCI 541Search Engines

Faculty
Engineering
Last listed
Spring 2024

No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2024 and last ran in Fall 2023. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.

When it ran

  1. S21
  2. F21
  3. F22
  4. W23
  5. F23

Ran in 5 terms, Spring 2021 to Fall 2023.

This course provides an opportunity for students to learn the engineering behind search engines and how to optimize search engines to provide higher quality user experiences. This course focuses on text retrieval and web search. Topics include design and construction of retrieval systems, retrieval models, and evaluation of search engines. [Offered: F]

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: (One of BME 122, CS 240/240E, ECE 250, MSCI 240, MTE 140, SYDE 223) and (One of AE 224, BME 213, CHE 220, CIVE 224, ECE 203, 306, ENVE 224, MSCI 251, 252, ME 202, MTE 201, NE 215, STAT 206, 231, 241, SYDE 212)

Discussed on r/uwaterloo

7 posts and comments in 7 threads mention MSCI 541, February 2016 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Winter 2024

Winter 2022

Management Eng v.s. Computer Eng v.s. SYDE? 0 points, 9 comments

“This might not be the place to ask this question, sorry if it isn’t. I’m interested in a software engineering/developer career. …”

u/wagwanm0n: “Easiest to get into management and prospects for software jobs are great. Good amount of coding courses too”

u/Alternative_Way_3534: “… Search Engines (MSCI 541) 7. Intro Machine Learning (MSCI 446) 8. Analytics and User Experience (MSCI 543) 9. Advanced Machine Learning (MSCI 546) 10. …”

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Spring 2021

Job Opportunities and Workload: SYDE, Tron, and Management 1 point, 9 comments

“I have recently been thinking of switching from mechanical engineering and am deciding between SYDE, Tron, and Management. …”

u/wagwanm0n: “Management does have a good number of coding courses”

u/original-random: “… of AI/ML) Electives: MSCI 446 Intro to Machine Learning MSCI 546 Advanced Machine Learning MSCI 541 Search Engines MSCI 543 Analytics and User Experience https://ugradcalendar.uwaterloo.ca/page/ENG-Management-Engineering So, it is easy to have 10 courses (25% of all your …”

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Fall 2018

Fall 2017

Winter 2016

I want to be a data scientist! 10 points, 50 comments

“What should I major in? Statistics with CS minor? Computational math and Statistics double major? Anything else? Thanks!!”

u/heartuary: “There will be a data science major starting in fall 2017 if all goes smoothly.”

u/Huex3: “It'll probably look like the data mining option for CM for a few years back plus databases, distributed computing, the big data course they offered and are continuing to, and a combination of MSCI446 and 541. At least that is how I would design the plan.”

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