SWE Program Information

The mission of the Department of Software Engineering is to provide a highly qualified education for Software Engineering. We believe our dedicated faculty and staff, outstanding student body, and excellent facilities allow us to achieve our mission and prepare our students for further education, successful careers, and lifetime professional growth.

Objectives are statements that describe the expected accomplishments of graduates during the first few years after graduation.

Graduates of the Software Engineering Program will:

Have a strong foundation and understanding of the principles of science, mathematics, and engineering which will enable them to apply those principles to their professional activities and growth.
Understand social and ethical issues to increase their sense of responsibility, membership, and awareness in society.
Possess broad and solid foundations in software engineering concepts and methodologies, computer programming, and computing environments so that they can rapidly adapt to changes in technology and engage in life-long learning.
Have skills in organization, management, communication and be effective in teamwork.

Revised on October, 2003

SWE PROGRAM OUTCOMES

At the time of graduation, all Software Engineering students will have demonstrated the ability to:

Apply mathematics, science and computer science to the engineering of software systems.
Apply SWE practices and process to software design and development.
Demonstrate the ability to gather, analyze, develop, verify and validate artifacts of software engineering systems.
Use software tools effectively in all phases of software development.
Contribute to multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary teams in the design, implementation and evolution of software systems.
Demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills.
Independently learn and research new topics in SWE and be capable of lifetime learning .
Recognize professional responsibility and the application of ethical principles.
Demonstrate an ability to learn new languages, environments, and paradigms for software systems.
Recognize the impact their discipline has on society.

Revised on November, 2004