Semester Requirements
James Vallino, Minor Adviser
(585) 475-2991, J.Vallino@se.rit.edu
Students in disciplines which have a heavy reliance on software applications may be interested in pursuing a minor in software engineering. Students will deepen their software design skills and learn techniques for working on a productive software engineering team. The minor provides a broad view of the software engineering landscape including introductory material and fundamentals in design and process. Student can choose electives in design or process to gain a deeper understanding of one of these areas, or they may choose to balance their courses for a broad view of both topics.
Prerequisites—Choose one of the following:
Object-Oriented Programming
Computer Science for Transfers
Required Courses:
SWEN-261 Introduction to Software Engineering
SWEN-262 Engineering of Software Subsystems
SWEN-256 Software Process and Project Management
Electives–Choose any two courses from the following:
Design electives
SWEN-331 Secure Software System Development
SWEN-342 Engineering of Concurrent and Distributed Software Systems
SWEN-343 Engineering of Enterprise Software Systems
SWEN-440 Software System Requirements and Architectures
SWEN-444 Human Centered Requirements and Design
SWEN-461 Real Time and Embedded Systems
SWEN-462 Modeling of Real Time Systems
SWEN-463 Performance Engineering of Real Time and Embedded Systems
SWEN-549 Software Engineering Design Seminar
Process electives
SWEN-350 Software Process and Product Quality
SWEN-356 Trends in Software Development Processes
SWEN-559 Software Engineering Process Seminar
Other electives
SWEN-220 Mathematical Models of Software
SWEN-352 Software Testing
SWEN-590 Software Engineering Seminar
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The software engineering minor provides students with an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of software engineering in the context of their respective fields of study. Depending on their choice of courses, students enhance their academic experience by gaining a deeper understanding of processes with which professionals build software today as well as current techniques for designing and building professional quality software.
Prerequisites—Choose one of the following:
4003-243 Object-Oriented Programming
4003-263 Computer Science for Transfers
Required Courses:
4010-361 Software Engineering
4010-362 Engineering of Software Subsystems
4010-456 Software Engineering Process
Elective Courses—Students take two additional 4-credit elective courses from the list of undergraduate software engineering offerings. At least 12 of the credits taken toward this minor must not be required by the student’s home program.