Last updated 22.08.08

Bachelor of Engineering Software Engineering Program

Handbook Entry

The Software Engineering Program is administered by the School of Computer Science and Engineering. Day to day administration is conducted through the Computer Science and Engineering School office, to which enquiries should be directed.

Email enquiries

Email enquiries should be sent to Undergraduate team or to Ken Robinson .

Understanding the Standard Software Engineering Program

Programs are usually listed in the handbook as sequence of stages, or years. The SE program will be listed that way a little later, but it is perhaps easier to understand the requirements for the program in terms of core requirements and elective requirements as shown in the following table.

1. Since the revision in 2003, Project Management has changed from a 3uoc course (COMP3710) to a 6uoc course (COMP3711). Consequently the SE electives have had to be cut from 48uoc to 45uoc.

In the handbook entry, the Core and Electives are arranged in stages. However, courses may be arranged in any suitable order, subject to satisfaction of prerequisites and corequisites. It makes some sense to take the courses shown in stages 1&2 in the first two years. Of course, some arrangements may produce timetable conflicts.

Notice that some courses have not been assigned specifically to S1 or S2. In those cases students are free to construct a program that best suits their purposes.

Stage 1 Course No Course Name S1 S2 COMP1917 Higher Computing 11 6   MATH1131     MATH1141     Mathematics 1A     Higher Mathematics 1A   6 MATH1081 Discrete Mathematics 6 INFS1603 Business Data Management 6 SENG1031 Software Engineering Workshop 1 6   MATH1231     MATH1241     Mathematics 1B     Higher Mathematics 1B   6 COMP1927 Higher Data Structures & Algorithms 6 Stage 1 free elective 6 Total

Stage 2 Course No Course Name S1 S2 SENG2010 Software Engineering Workshop 2A 3 SENG2020 Software Engineering Workshop 2B 3 COMP2111 System Modelling and Design 6 COMP2911 Engineering Design in Computing 2 6 COMP2121 Microprocessors and Interfacing 6 COMP3711 Project Management 6 INFS2603 System Analysis & Design 6 MATH2859 Probability, Statistics and Information 3 General Education 3 Stage 2 free elective 6 Total

Stage 3 Course No Course Name S1 S2 SENG3010 Software engineering Workshop 3A 3 SENG3020 Software Engineering Workshop 3B 3 COMP3141 Software System Design & Implementation 6   COMP3331     INFS2607     Computer Networks and Applications     Infrastructure and Security   6 SE Electives2 213 General Education 9 Total

Stage 4 Course No Course Name S1 S2 Industrial Training SENG4910 Thesis part A 6 SENG4911 Thesis part B 12 SENG4921 Professional Issues and Ethics 6 SE Electives 24 Total

Notes

1. The courses, COMP1917 and COMP1927 replace COMP1911 and COMP1921 for Software Engineering.
2. The 8 options (48 uoc) for stages 3 and 4 are chosen from a list that includes all third and fourth stage COMP, INFS courses and some MATH courses. See SE electives.
3. SE electives are nominally 48 uoc, but because Project Management changed from 3uoc to 6uoc we have had to take 3uoc out of the SE electives. In practice it may not be easy to choose 45uoc of SE electives, so it may have to be 48uoc.
4. As set out in this staging, stage 2 will have one semester with 27uoc and stage 3 will have one semester of 21uoc. Standard 24uoc semesters can be achieved by moving MATH2859 to stage 3.

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