This graduate certificate program provides knowledge, tools, and techniques to those who are working in or planning to work in software engineering. Offered on a part-time or full-time basis, this certificate can be pursued alone, concurrently with any of the graduate degree programs in the College of Engineering and Computing, or used toward completion of the MS in Software Engineering at a later time.

Admissions

In addition to general admission requirements of the university,  applicants must have earned a GPA of 3.00 or better on a 4.0 scale in the last 60 credits of their baccalaureate degree. Other application requirements are as follows:

  • A one-page statement of educational and career goals
  • Current resume
  • Internationally-educated students must submit their English Proficiency scores

Admissions requirements to the Graduate Software Engineering Certificate are exactly the same as the admissions requirements for the Software Engineering MS program.

Admission into the certificate program does not guarantee acceptance into any MS program.

Policies

Students must complete four courses with an average GPA of 3.0 or higher for a total of 12 credits of graduate study.

For policies governing all graduate certificates, see AP.6.8 Requirements for Graduate Certificates.

Banner Code: EC-CERG-SWE

Certificate Requirements

Total credits: 12

This certificate may be pursued on a full-or part-time basis.

Students must complete all requirements within a concentration.

Concentration in General (GEN)

Select three courses from the following:9
SWE 619
Object-Oriented Software Specification and Construction
SWE 621
Software Design and Architecture
SWE 632
User Interface Design and Development
SWE 637
Software Testing
Select one course from the following: 13
CS 675
Distributed Systems
CS 706
Concurrent Software Systems
SWE 620
Software Requirements Analysis and Specification
SWE 625
Software Project Management
SWE 626
Software Project Laboratory
SWE 631
Software Design Patterns
SWE 632
User Interface Design and Development
SWE 637
Software Testing
SWE 645
Component-Based Software Development
SWE 681
Secure Software Design and Programming
SWE 699
Special Topics in Software Engineering
SWE 721
Reusable Software Architectures
SWE 760
Software Analysis and Design of Real-Time Systems
SWE 763
Software Engineering Experimentation
SWE 795
Advanced Topics in Software Engineering
SWE 798
Research Project
SYST 621
Systems Architecture Design
Total Credits12
1

 Subject to satisfying the prerequisites

Notes:

Students enrolled in the MS in Information Systems Program must substitute SWE 620 Software Requirements Analysis and Specification for INFS 622 Information Systems Analysis and Design to obtain this certificate. Credit is not given for taking both INFS 622 Information Systems Analysis and Design and SWE 620 Software Requirements Analysis and Specification; only 3 credits will be awarded.

Students enrolled in the MS in Computer Science Program may obtain a certificate in software engineering by taking any four SWE courses. If CS 706 Concurrent Software Systems is included, it is possible to complete the MS in Computer Science and the certificate in software engineering in 30 hours.

Concentration in Web-Based Software Engineering (WBSE)

Required Courses:
SWE 632User Interface Design and Development3
SWE 642Software Engineering for the World Wide Web3
Select two from the following:6
CS 550
Database Systems
ISA 656
Network Security
SWE 619
Object-Oriented Software Specification and Construction
SWE 621
Software Design and Architecture
SWE 637
Software Testing
SWE 645
Component-Based Software Development
SWE 681
Secure Software Design and Programming
Total Credits12