1. SWE minor 2007 Minor in Software Engineering Offered by the Departments of Computer Science and Information & Software Engineering New for Fall 2007

2. SWE minor 2007 © SWE, 20072 Why Software Engineering? As 21 st century engineers, mathematicians, and scientists, you will spend much of your career writing software. Modeling physical processes Modeling physical processes Programs to solve complex numerical problems Programs to solve complex numerical problems Visualization of complex phenomena Visualization of complex phenomena Solving mathematical systems Solving mathematical systems CS 112 and 211 teach elementary programming, preparing you to solve small problems. Shouldn’t youincrease your marketability by learning how to engineer large, reliable software programs? Shouldn’t you increase your marketability by learning how to engineer large, reliable software programs?

3. SWE minor 2007 © SWE, 20073 Why Software Engineering? The most common job title for computer science majors is... Software Engineer The most common job for science and math majors is... Programmer

4. SWE minor 2007 © SWE, 20074 What is Software Engineering ? Building High Quality Software specifying, modeling, designing, implementing, evaluating, deploying, maintaining, … etc.... Reliability Scalability Maintainability Usability Security Availability The classes will teach you to engineer high quality software that is: making you a more valuable employee or grad student !! scalable scalable safe & secure safe & secure efficient efficient usable usable available available reliable reliable secure secure maintainable maintainable

5. SWE minor 2007 © SWE, 20075 The Minor in Software Engineering CS 112 (4 hrs) CS 211 (3 hrs) 9 hours from these 5 courses CS/SWE 332 SWE 432 CS/SWE 421 SWE 437 SWE 443 Offered Fall 2007 CS / SWE 332 – OO software CS / SWE 421 – Intro to software engineering SWE 432 – Software usability and web software SWE 437 – Software testing and maintenance SWE 443 – Software architectures

6. SWE minor 2007 © SWE, 20076 Who Should Take the Minor ? The minor in software engineering is designed to help you design and build high quality software. This minor is open to all majors, and especially appropriate for students in: Computer Science Computer Science Civil Engineering Civil Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Electrical Engineering Systems Engineering Systems Engineering Information Technology Information Technology CSI CSI Mathematics Mathematics Physics Physics Biology Biology Chemistry Chemistry Earth Science Earth Science Finance Finance Economics Economics For more information : http://www.ise.gmu.edu/minor-swe/