德保尔大学

The MS in Software Engineering provides students with marketable skills in methodologies, techniques, and tools of software engineering. The program encompasses the entire life-cycle of software development including requirements, analysis, design, construction, testing, and project management. Emphasis is placed on current and emerging technologies for engineering large and complex distributed software systems. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, software engineering has been among the fastest growing IT professions in the US.

Concentrations

Software Development Concentration

This concentration addresses the foundations, methodologies, and tools for developing high quality large-scale software systems, with an emphasis on the technical issues of software development.

Software Architecture Concentration

This concentration addresses the management and design of large-scale software systems.

Real-Time Game Systems Concentration

This concentration addresses the foundations, methodologies, and tools for developing large-scale computer games and entertainment software systems.

Entrepreneurship and Technology Leadership Concentration

In the current IT environment, software development projects are increasingly treated as business propositions in which the product under development must deliver real and measurable value to the organization. As such, Software Engineers often need increasingly sophisticated knowledge of the business environment in order to advance in their careers beyond the purely technical track. This concentration will bridge the areas of software engineering and business, by equipping students to understand the financial, marketing, management, and entrepreneurial context in which most software development projects are executed.

The concentration will include course offerings from both CDM and Kellstadt Graduate School of Business. It offers the Software Engineering students the opportunities of immersing themselves in a classroom setting in which the focus is purely business oriented, as opposed to technology oriented. This concentration aims to prepare Software Engineering students for career paths in software technology focused entrepreneurship or senior technology leadership positions (CIO's, CTO's) in businesses.

Learning Outcomes

?Students will be able to:

• Correctly create a model of the structure and behavior of a software system.
• Design and implement, in a programming language, an executable solution to a given problem using common software principles and best practices.
• Apply appropriate software testing techniques and evaluate the quality of a software product at module, integration, and system granularity levels.
• Select and adapt suitable elements from among conventional and evolving software development life-cycle processes and apply the resulting process to a software project.
• Collaborate in teams to develop a significantly sized software system from conceptualization to completion.
• Communicate effectively design and development decisions through written and graphical demonstration.