Software Engineering (BS)

Introduces software engineering, software lifecycle models, personal software processes for individual professionalism, time and defect estimation, yield and productivity, software testing and quality management.

Software process from the design perspective. Engineering design process, user-centered design and software safety design. User interface, software architecture and design patterns and software design constraints.

Best practices in software construction in the context of a team project, including refactoring, defensive programming, unit testing, and configuration and release management.

Project-centric course focusing on applying software process, project management, and technical leadership. Final course in the software enterprise sequence.

Third course in the four-course enterprise sequence. Students perform inception (project launch) and elaboration (requirements analysis) activities in project teams.

First half of a comprehensive project experience based on cumulative knowledge and skills gained in earlier coursework.

Second half of a comprehensive project experience based on cumulative knowledge and skills gained in earlier coursework.

Concepts of problem solving using an object-oriented programming language, algorithm design, structured programming, fundamental algorithms and techniques.

Problem solving by programming with an object-oriented programming language. Introduces data structures. Overview of computer science topics.

Register-level computer organization. Instruction set architecture. Assembly language. Processor organization and design. Memory organization. IO programming. Exception/interrupt handling.

Introduces the procedural, object-oriented, functional and declarative languages.

Data structures and related algorithms for their specification, complexity analysis, implementation and application. Sorting and searching. Professional responsibilities that are part of program development, documentation and testing.

Logic design, number systems and arithmetic, Boolean algebra, digital systems components and hardware description languages.

Design and implementation of distributed software components; process and memory management underlying software applications; sockets, protocols, threads, XML, serialization, reflection, security, and events.

Fundamental methods in modeling and managing data-oriented systems. Relational, object and hierarchical data modeling techniques. Query languages including SQL. Semantics of transaction processing. Modern trends in data management including unstructured data, NoSQL and Graph databases.

Fundamentals of operating systems: run-time environments, process management, scheduling, synchronization techniques, memory management and file management. Introduces programming concepts and tools for developing operating system modules, system utilities and low-level applications in POSIX environments.

Software engineering principles applied to securing software systems. Software life cycle processes contextualized to security needs of software. Software requirements analysis and software verification and validation practices for security. Software architecture security assessment. Software engineering organization policies for security, including threat modeling and assessment, vulnerability classification, risk management, and preparing for security audits.