Software engineers begin careers creating code, connecting application modules and functionalities, debugging, and porting applications to other operating system platforms. In a senior position, which offers the potential of more voice in the definition of the end product, software engineers work with end users, OEM customers, and others. They also take a more supervisory role in the team structure.

Software engineers can serve as application programmers, systems programmers, support engineers, or web developers. There are many courses that are focused on particular application areas, for example, digital signal processing. The courses in the following table are the core courses applicable to software engineering.

Courses offered in the Software Development/Software Engineering concentration:

Course Number	Title	Description
MSCS 5610 or MSCS 6330	Data Mining	Techniques for extracting patterns from large databases. Classification, prediction, clustering, summarization and discrimination.
MSCS 5800 or MSCS 6380	Principles of Data Base Systems/ Advanced Database Systems	Database concepts and architecture. Data modeling, transactions, security Web access and distributed query.
MSCS 5860 or MSCS 6340	Component-Based Software Construction/ Component Architecture	Components in object-oriented programming, selection, integration, component frameworks, specification and interfaces.
MSCS 6050	Elements of Software Development	Software design and development process, requirements gathering and analysis, design, coding and documentation, configuration management, quality and maintenance of software.
MSCS 6055	Software Quality Assurance	Quality approaches as they apply to requirements, design, release, configuration management, testing, defect management, and operations and support.
MSCS 6060 or MSCS 6350	Parallel and Distributed Systems/ Distributed Computing	Software for parallel and distributed systems, tools, approaches, architecture, heterogeneity, and solving business problems.
MSCS 6310-6320 or EECE 5820	Computer Networks 1 and 2/ Operating Systems and Networking	Networking and networking standards and protocols, layered architecture of networks.
MSCS 6370	Information Representation	Grammars and languages for communicating business information in very diverse systems.
MSCS 6391	Topics MSCS: Data Warehouse	Use of databases, online analytical processing, ETL, data dictionaries and metadata to support business reporting.
MSCS 6931 or INTE 6150	MSCS Topics: Project Management/ Project Management	Effective project management, business alignment, structure, risk management, scheduling, monitoring, reporting and managing teams.
MSCS 6931	MSCS Topics: Software Quality Assurance	Organizing for quality, quality experts, standards and best practices, techniques, metrics, safety, and cost of quality.
INTE 6158	System Analysis and Design	Analyze, model, and design business systems using common tools and methodologies.
EECE 5610	Object-Oriented Software Engineering	Object-oriented analysis and design. Requirements, specification, notations, quality, testing, reuse, and reverse engineering.
EECE 5620	Modern Programming Practices	Advanced topics including design patterns, graphical components, software component models, and common models and libraries.
EECE 5630	Software Testing	Testing and quality, testing techniques, validation, types of testing, metrics, preventing and detecting errors.
EECE 5650	Introduction to Algorithms	Algorithm analysis for time and space complexity, advanced data structures, problem solving, greedy algorithms, dynamic programming, NP-completeness.
EECE 6810	Algorithm Analysis and Applications	Asymptotic complexity analysis, recursion analysis, advanced data structure, sorting, heuristic search, linear programming.

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