# Software Engineering Minor

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The Software Engineering Minor addresses the critical industry need for professionals who possess not only programming proficiency but also the broader engineering skills required to effectively build modern software systems at scale. Recognizing that skills like precise requirements gathering, designing for competing quality attributes, making trade-offs between cost, schedule, and features, ensuring quality, and effective teamwork are highly valued by employers, the minor focuses on teaching these fundamental tools, techniques, and processes. Through a curriculum that covers both engineering the software product and the essential process, management, and teamwork aspects, complemented by internships and mentored projects, students gain practical understanding of the scale and complexity issues inherent in the field, ultimately graduating with the capabilities to be immediately productive in a mature engineering organization.