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SFE 204 Software Architecture and Patterns

Provide an understanding of fundamental software architecture concepts, standards, drivers, styles, and design specification tenets including design patterns. Develop an understanding of UML method notations and tools to document architectures, and use of tradeoff methodologies (e.g., QAW, ATAM) to evaluate an architecture. Present tenets of technical and ethical debt. Throughout the course students will implement a core set of software design patterns using language of choice. 

3

Prerequisites

SFE 112 and one of the following: CSC 141, CSC 144, or CSC 171

Cross Listed Courses

CSC 352

SFE 224 Requirements Analysis

Elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, and management of user requirements; conflict resolution; process, notations, methods and tools, requirements standards, operational concepts documents (OCD) and system requirements specifications (SRS).

3

Prerequisites

SFE 112 and one of the following: CSC 141, CSC 144, or CSC 171

SFE 240 Intro to Cybersecurity and Networking

This course will focus on both the technologies and practices of cybersecurity on the Internet networking environment, and key cybersecurity methods and practices for securing complex computing and networking systems. Included in the course are: how networks are designed and constructed, security practices given internet exposed systems, software, and networks, cloud technologies, root cause analysis methods, and simple cybersecurity attacks and defenses. This course has lab and classroom components that introduces students to key technologies for the upper level cybersecurity and software engineering coursework.

 

3

Prerequisites

SFE 128

SFE 256 Networking/Telecommunications

Introduces students to the fundamentals of network and data communication technologies. Course topics include telecommunication media and equipment; data transmission and protocols; corporate, local, and wide area networks; intranets and internets; and network software and management. An introduction to electromagnetic concepts and principles is included to provide a technical foundation for these concepts (Cross listed with CSC 256).

3

Prerequisites

CSC 141 or CSC 144

SFE 261 Database Systems

Studies the design and the implementation querying of a database. The focus is on the development of effective SQL queries and the use of relational databases. Other database types and technologies will be discussed.

3

Prerequisites

CSC 141, CSC 171 or CSC 144

Cross Listed Courses

CSC 261