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Software Engineering Minor

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.

Course
Required Courses
SWEN-261 Introduction to Software Engineering
SWEN-262 Engineering of Software Subsystems
SWEN-256 Software Process and Project Management
Electives
Choose two from the following groups:
   Design
   SWEN-331    Secure Software System Development
   SWEN-342    Engineering of Concurrent and Distributed Software Systems
   SWEN-343    Engineering of Enterprise Software Systems
   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
   SWEN-350    Software Process and Product Quality
   SWEN-352    Software Testing
   SWEN-356    Trends in Software Development Processes
   SWEN-559    Software Engineering Process Seminar
   Other
   SWEN-220    Mathematical Models of Software
   SWEN-440    Software System Requirements and Architectures
   SWEN-444    Human Centered Requirements and Design
   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.