Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ISU Engineering College to Offer Software Engineering Degree

By: Dana Schmidt

The Board of Regents, State of Iowa, has approved a new B.S. degree in software engineering at Iowa State. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering and the Department of Computer Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will jointly administer the new degree program.

Students in the degree program will learn engineering aspects-processes, techniques, and principles-for developing, analyzing and evolving complex software.

The degree program, in part, responds to a call from two key professional organizations, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Association for Computing Machinery, for more software engineering programs nationally. A joint 2004 report of the two groups included a model curriculum for software engineering.

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