Software Engineering, M.S. - Online

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About the Software Engineering Master’s Program

The Department of Computer Science offers two M.S. degrees, a Master of Science in Computer Science (M.S.C.S.) and a Master of Science in Software Engineering (M.S.S.E). The M.S.C.S. is a degree program designed to strengthen knowledge in advanced computer sciences areas spanning from hardware systems, software systems to computer networks and applied computing. The M.S.S.E. is a degree program with an emphasis on advanced software engineering concepts including software design and quality assurance methodologies and practices in software and system production. Both degree programs require filing a degree plan within the student’s first semester of study and passing the Final Comprehensive Examination as required by the university.

The degree plan for students pursuing a Master of Science in Software Engineering (M.S.S.E.) has two options: a thesis option or a project option.

The plan for both options must include:

CS 5373 - Software Modeling and Architecture 3 Semester Credit Hours
CS 5374 - Software Verification and Validation 3 Semester Credit Hours

Software engineering electives:

Students choose a number of courses from the following list:

(four for thesis option, five for project option)

CS 5332 - Special Topics in Software Engineering 3 Semester Credit Hours
CS 5341 - Pattern Recognition 3 Semester Credit Hours
CS 5358 - Software Studio I 3 Semester Credit Hours
CS 5363 - Software Project Management 3 Semester Credit Hours
CS 5364 - Information Retrieval 3 Semester Credit Hours
CS 5368 - Intelligent Systems 3 Semester Credit Hours
CS 5377 - Distributed Computing 3 Semester Credit Hours
CS 5379 - Parallel Processing 3 Semester Credit Hours
CS 5380 - Fault-Tolerant Computer Systems 3 Semester Credit Hours
CS 5381 - Analysis of Algorithms 3 Semester Credit Hours
ENGR 5392 - Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research 3 Semester Credit Hours
STAT 5384 - Statistics for Engineers and Scientists I 3 Semester Credit Hours
STAT 5385 - Statistics for Engineers and Scientists II 3 Semester Credit Hours
IE 5316 - Simulation Models for Operations Analysis 3 Semester Credit Hours
IE 5319 - Risk Modeling and Assessment 3 Semester Credit Hours
IE 5320 - Systems Theory 3 Semester Credit Hours

Options:

In addition, the thesis option requires two additional CS graduate elective courses and six hours of CS 6000 . The project option requires an additional four CS graduate elective courses and three hours of CS 6001 . Both options allow at most one CS 7000 as a CS graduate elective. All students pursuing a Master of Science in Software Engineering must take CS 5120 in their first semester.