MSc Software Engineering:

Advanced Course Software Project Management Object-oriented Methods Graphics Information Engineering Software Engineering Support Environments Accredited by the British Computer Society On-line course booklet in Adobe PDF format Apply on-line for this course

Course Tutors:

Dr Dimitrios Rigas Tel: 01274 235131 (overseas 44 1274 235131) E-mail: D.Rigas@Bradford.ac.uk Dr Ping Jiang Tel: 01274 233940 (overseas 44 1274 233940) E-mail: P.Jiang@Bradford.ac.uk

Given the one year, three semester, nature of this course, its design has emphasised the horizontal integration of material around four themes, as detailed below. The course contains core and optional taught components. The students use their projects as a vehicle to express their interests. Due to the advanced nature of this MSc, students are allocated a supervisor for their project whose research interests best match the project area.

The course is structured around the following themes:

• Formal theme, comprising advanced software development, formal methods, and concurrent and distributed systems;
  
  
• Design theme, comprising information engineering and human computer interaction (design and development);
  
  
• Application theme, comprising AI, computer systems performance modelling, and real time systems;
  
  
• Project theme, comprising software project management, project part 1 (MSc SE) and dissertation part 2 (MSc SE).

This structure allows the major issues in software engineering to be introduced and developed. The project theme is a key part of the course. After an introduction to the topic of project management, the project (MSc SE) module serves as an initial exploration of the chosen area; students are required to produce a technical report containing the background research and initial design of their project area. They receive feedback on this from their supervisor and a second assessor before embarking on their dissertation in semester three, where the design is developed and realised in a systematic, professional manner.

*Modules and Options may change at short notice

NOTES:

Core Modules are compulsary unless studied previously. In the case of 'Advanced Software Development' students should not have previously studied 'Programming Language Theory and Semantics' (CM0516D).

Optional modules can only be taken if they have not been previously studied

Note also that students may only study either 'Information Engineering' or 'AI for Games' but not both as these are level 3 modules. 'AI for Games' and 'AI with Applications' are also mutually exclusive.