Software Engineering Concentration

The program is designed for undergraduate students in the B.S. in Computer Science degree program. This track offers specialized courses founded on the fundamentals and principles of software engineering. The program provides the knowledge and skills needed to work as a software engineer or software task leader on both large and small projects. Students will learn development of distributed software, service-oriented applications, modeling notations, software architectures and other tools and skills necessary to be successful in the workplace. Students will gain a solid foundation for pursuing graduate study and carrying out research and development in emerging areas such as model-based design, enterprise software engineering, service-oriented architecture, simulation-based software development and visual modeling system-of-systems engineering.

2008-2009 Catalog Year Concentration Requirements

A minimum of 15 credits with a “C” or higher in the required and elective courses is required.

Required Courses (12 credit hours)

CSE 445/598 Distributed Software Development (3)
CSE 460/598 Software Analysis and Design (3)
CSE 461 Software Engineering Capstone Project I (3)
CSE 462 Software Engineering Capstone Project II (3)

Elective Course (3 credit hours)

CSE 463: Introduction to Human Computer Interaction (3)
CSE 465: Information Assurance (3)
CSE 466: Computer Systems Security (3)
CSE 467: Data and Information Security (3)
CSE 468: Computer Network Security (3)

2007-2008 and Earlier Catalog Year Concentration Requirements

A minimum of 12 credits with a “C” or higher in the required and elective course is required.

Required Courses (12 credit hours)

CSE 445/598 Distributed Software Development (3)
CSE 460/598 Software Analysis and Design (3)
CSE 461 Software Engineering Capstone Project I (3)
CSE 462 Software Engineering Capstone Project II (3)

Student Opportunities

International, national, regional and local companies and corporations offer internship opportunities in software engineering. Many of these opportunities are promoted through SCI Advising Center. There are also existing undergraduate research opportunities in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

More Information

For more information on the software engineering concentration, students can make an appointment with an advisor by contacting the SCI Advising Center at 480.965.3199 or sending email to sci.advising@asu.edu.