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University of Calgary Calendar 2023-2024 COURSES OF INSTRUCTION Course Descriptions S Software Engineering for Engineers ENSF
Software Engineering for Engineers ENSF

For more information about these courses, see the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering: schulich.ucalgary.ca/electrical-computer.

Senior Courses
Software Engineering for Engineers 300       Software Engineering Practices for Data Management
Introduction to professional skills practices within software engineering. Individual software processes and reflection, resiliency and debugging skills, command line navigation, revision control. Foundations of database management systems. Types of data models, relational and entity-relationship models, integrity constraints, normalization, Structured Query Language (SQL). Data privacy, security, and ethical considerations.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Engineering 233 or Digital Engineering 233.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 300 and Computer Science 471 will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 337       Programming Fundamentals for Software and Computer
Key features of the C programming language. Pointers, memory models and memory management. Manipulation of text files and binary files. Introduction to recursion. Introduction to a modern object-oriented language. Development of basic program design skills with small projects.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-1T-1.5)
Prerequisite(s):
Engineering 233 or Digital Engineering 233.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 337 and Computer Engineering 339 will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 338       Practical Data Structures and Algorithms
Introduction to foundational data structures such as stacks, queues, lists, heaps, hash tables,trees, and graphs. Sorting and searching algorithms. Complexity analysis. Applications for software development
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Software Engineering for Engineers 300 and 337.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 338 and Computer Science 319 will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 380       Object-Oriented Principles for Software Development
Fundamental object-oriented software design and development topics for software engineering. Object-oriented analysis, design and development. Inheritance, polymorphism, and application of common data structures. Best practices for tools for testing, debugging, and documentation.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Software Engineering for Engineers 300 and 337.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 380 and any of Software Engineering for Engineers 409, Electrical Engineering 409 or Computer Engineering 493 will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 381       Full Stack Web Development
A practical survey of fullstack software development including front-end and back-end design and development, relevant libraries and framework, principles of devOps and cloud integration, in the context of agile software development. Introduction to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Software Engineering for Engineers 300 and 337.   
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Software Engineering for Engineers 400       Software Engineering Industry Practices and Communication
Continuation of professional skills within the field of software engineering. Application of common tools for efficient software practice, cloud, continuous integration, and deployment. Introduction to innovation and ethics in design and entrepreneurial mindset. Licensing, legal, and internationalization issues.
Course Hours:
3 units; (2-3)
Prerequisite(s):
Software Engineering for Engineers 300.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 409       Principles of Software Development
A survey of software design and development topics for Engineering students. Topics include: key features of an object-oriented programming language, especially inheritance and polymorphism; elements of object-oriented design; programming and application of common data structures; strategies and tools for testing and debugging.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
3 units from Computer Engineering 335, 339, Software Engineering for Engineers 337, or Geomatics Engineering 333.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 409 and any of Software Engineering for Engineers 380, Electrical Engineering 409 or Computer Engineering 493 will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 444       Machine Learning Systems
Techniques for extracting, cleaning, and visualizing data from engineering applications. Basic numerical computation techniques underlying learning algorithms. Fundamental supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms. Emphasis will be on leveraging existing software libraries and frameworks to solve problems in various engineering disciplines.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Software Engineering for Engineers 300; and 3 units from Engineering 319, Digital Engineering 319 or Electrical Engineering 419; and 3 units from Software Engineering for Engineers 337, Computer Engineering 335, 339, or Geomatics Engineering 333.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 444 and Software Engineering for Engineers 544 will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 460       Embedded Software and Hardware Systems
Embedded real-time applications and operations. Computer architecture, microcontrollers and their instruction sets. Control and interfacing for robotics applications using common input/output devices, debugging and other software engineering practices. Strategies for interrupt handling and exception handling.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Computer Engineering 369.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 460 and Computer Engineering 511 will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 461       Applied Operating Systems
Fundamental principles of operating systems. Virtual memory and input/output. Processes, threads and CPU scheduling. Persistent storage. Concurrent programming techniques to address inter-process communication and synchronization. Discussion of security elements.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Software Engineering for Engineers 338 and Computer Engineering 369.  
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 461 and Computer Science 457 will not be allowed
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Software Engineering for Engineers 462       Networked Systems
Fundamental principles of computer networks including layered protocol stacks. Socket programming. Programming frameworks for developing secure distributed systems. Introduction to principles of software-defined networks.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Software Engineering for Engineers 338 and Computer Engineering 369.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 462 and Computer Science 441 will not be allowed.  
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Software Engineering for Engineers 480       Principles of Software Design
Brief overview of typical software development lifecycles. Systematic methods for designing large-scale, quality software. Concepts such as abstraction, modularity, and software modelling will be covered. Designing for non-functional properties of software will be introduced. Emphasis on individual skills.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Software Engineering for Engineers 409 or 380; and Computer Engineering 369.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 480 and any of Software Engineering 300, 301, 311, 411, Computer Science 301, 333, or 451 will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 519       Special Topics in Software Engineering
Current topics in software engineering.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Consent of the Department.
Notes:
Consult Department for announcement of topics.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
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Software Engineering for Engineers 544       Data Science for Software Engineers
Fundamental topics in data collection, preparation, exploration, mining and machine learning will be covered with a focus on software development.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
3 units from Engineering 319, Digital Engineering 319 or Electrical Engineering 419; and 3 units from Software Engineering 337, Computer Engineering 335 or 339; and Computer Science 471 or Software Engineering 300.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 544 and Electrical Engineering 525 will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 545       Introduction to Virtual Reality
Introduce VR technologies. Emphasize on engineering methodologies of creating VR systems. Characterize VR systems, hardware and software, user 3D interaction, and VR applications and future.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
3 units from Software Engineering for Engineers 380, 409 or Computer Engineering 369.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 545 and 519.45 (IntroductionToVirtualReality) will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 592       Programming Fundamentals for Data Engineers
An introductory course in programming with an emphasis on data engineering. Topics include: Basic data structures and algorithms; Loops and iterations; Files and I/O, Functions, Classes, Modules, and Packages; Strings and text manipulation; Data wrangling; Network and web programming; Data visualization.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering or consent of the department.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 592 and 519.48 (Prog Fundmtl's Data Engineers) will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 593       Principles of Software Development I
A fundamental study of software design and development topics for Engineering students. Topics include: fundamental programming constructs; key features of an object-oriented programming language, especially inheritance and polymorphism, elements of object-oriented design; programming and application of common data structures; strategies and tools for testing and debugging.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering or consent of the department.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 593 and 519.49 (Principles of Software Dev I) will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 594        Principles of Software Development II
A fundamental study of software design and development topics for Engineering students. Topics include: parallel programming; event-driven programming; database programming; socket programming, and the development of client-server architectures; software engineering best practices.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering or consent of the department.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 594 and 519.50 (Principles of Software Dev II) will not be allowed.      
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Graduate Courses

Registration in all courses requires the approval of the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering.

Software Engineering for Engineers 603       Modelling and Measurement of Software Performance
Performance-oriented review of computer systems; methodologies to evaluate software performance; fundamental performance laws; performance prediction using queuing network models; discrete event simulation of computer system performance, simulation input and output analysis; performance testing, monitoring and benchmarking; workload characterization; software performance engineering.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the MSc or PhD with specialization in Software Engineering.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 603 and 619.02 (SoftwareDevelpmnt OpenSource) will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 604       Theoretical Foundations of Software Engineering
Explores formal principles of software engineering based on the common recognition that software engineering is not constrained by any physical laws as we know. The transdisciplinary foundations of software engineering are presented from the facets of information, computing, mathematics, cognitive, and management sciences, software engineering philosophies; engineering, mathematical, computational, management science, cognitive informatics, computational intelligence foundations and approaches of software engineering. As a result, a coherent framework of software engineering theories is learnt.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the MSc or PhD with specialization in Software Engineering.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 604 and Software Engineering 609.19 (TheoreticalFoundationsOfSeng) will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 606       Software Engineering Fundamentals
Methodological foundation of software development principles from requirements analysis to software design and architecture.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 606 and either 614 or 619.16 (Software Engg Fundamentals) will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 607       Advanced Software Development and Architecture
A study of software design topics including: abstraction, modularity, design patterns, software modelling, architectural patterns.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering and completion of Software Engineering for Engineers 692, 693 and 694; or admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering, foundation courses exempt cohort.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 607 and 619.21 (Software Design & Arch I) will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 608       Databases
A study of topics related to architecting software systems: database design, methods and technologies for developing web-based software systems, and architecting systems for non-functional software properties.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering and completion of Software Engineering for Engineers 692, 693 and 694; or admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering, foundation courses exempt cohort.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 608 and 619.22 (Software Design & Arch II) will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 609       Team Design Project in Software Engineering I
A team design project in either software development or software best practice and experience.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering and Software Engineering for Engineers 607, 608, 611 and 614; or admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering, foundation courses exempt cohort.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 609 and 619.23 (Team Design Project I) will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 610       Team Design Project in Software Engineering II
A team design project in either software development or software best practice and experience.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering and completion of Software Engineering for Engineers 692, 693 and 694; or admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering, foundation courses exempt cohort.      
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 610 and 619.24 (Team Design Project II) will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 611       Machine Learning for Software Engineers
Covers Machine Learning, which focuses on developing machine learning applications, specifically in the engineering domain. Covers basic techniques for supervised and unsupervised learning, with the emphasis on the applied aspects of the techniques.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering and completion of Software Engineering for Engineers 692, 693 and 694; or admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering, foundation courses exempt cohort.     
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 611 and either 519.47 (Applied Data Science) or 619.25 (Machine Learning for ENSF) will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 612       Engineering Large Scale Data Analytics Systems
Sources and characteristics of large scale data, i.e., "big data", large scale data analysis, benefits of large scale data analysis to various industry domains, scalable data analysis frameworks, large scale data algorithms in selected application domains.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering and completion of Software Engineering for Engineers 692, 693 and 694; or admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering, foundation courses exempt cohort.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 612 and 619.28 (Large Scale Analytics Systems) will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 613       Software Requirements Analysis and Process Management
Introduction to software development process, product management, and software requirements analysis: Elicitation, modelling, and validation of requirements.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the MSc or PhD with specialization in Software Engineering. 
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 613 and 619.30 (Rqrm't Analysis & Process Mgmt) will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 614       Advanced System Analysis and Software Design
Advanced topics on principles of system analysis, system thinking, requirements engineering, essential elements of quality software design, design patterns, and system-level software analysis.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-1)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering and completion of Software Engineering for Engineers 692, 693 and 694; or admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering, foundation courses exempt cohort.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 614 and either 606 or 619.34 (AdvSytm analy&SoftwareDesgn) will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 619       Special Topics
A study of problems of particular interest to students specializing in Software Engineering.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-1) or (3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the MSc or PhD with specialization in Software Engineering.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
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Software Engineering for Engineers 692       Programming Fundamentals for Data Engineers
An introductory course in programming with an emphasis on data engineering. Topics include: basic data structures and algorithms; loops and iterations; files and I/O, functions, classes, modules, and packages; strings and text manipulation; data wrangling; network and web programming; data visualization.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 692 and either 519.48 (Prog Fundmtl's Data Engineers) or 592 will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 693       Principles of Software Development I
A fundamental study of software design and development topics for engineering students. Topics include: fundamental programming constructs; key features of an object-oriented programming language, especially inheritance and polymorphism, elements of object-oriented design; programming and application of common data structures; strategies and tools for testing and debugging.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 693 and either 519.49 (Principles of Software Dev I) or 593 will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering for Engineers 694        Principles of Software Development II
A fundamental study of data structures and algorithms for engineering students. Topics include arrays, lists, stacks, queues, trees, hash tables, graphs, algorithms for searching and sorting, and introduction to algorithm analysis.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the MEng with specialization in Software Engineering.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering for Engineers 694 and either 519.50 (Principles of Software Dev II) or 594 will not be allowed.
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