The European Master on Software Engineering, or European Masters Programme in Software Engineering (new name since 2015) (EMSE) is a two-year joint

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(Msc) program coordinated by four European universities ( Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Technical University of Madrid,

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), funded by the

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Programme of the

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Programme Overview

The discipline

software engineering Software engineering is a systematic engineering approach to software development. A software engineer is a person who applies the principles of software engineering to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate computer software. The term '' ...

is traditionally designed to bridge industry and research needs. The European Masters Programme in Software Engineering (EMSE) is a part of the

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Programme from the

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which focuses on the area of

. This course enforces a wide spectrum of courses based on the high scientific knowledge of each partner university both in theoretical and applied research.Official website
/ref> With this program students will be guided into a cognitive path including foundation courses - such as advanced

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...

requirements engineering Requirements engineering (RE) is the process of defining, documenting, and maintaining requirements in the engineering design process. It is a common role in systems engineering and software engineering. The first use of the term ''requirement ...

verification and validation Verification and validation (also abbreviated as V&V) are independent procedures that are used together for checking that a product, service, or system meets requirements and specifications and that it fulfills its intended purpose. These are ...

software quality In the context of software engineering, software quality refers to two related but distinct notions: * Software functional quality reflects how well it complies with or conforms to a given design, based on functional requirements or specification ...

and management - and elective courses in which basic knowledge is applied, such as distributed systems,

information management Information management (IM) concerns a cycle of organizational activity: the acquisition of information from one or more sources, the custodianship and the distribution of that information to those who need it, and its ultimate disposal throug ...

, computer networks, cluster technologies,

software product lines Software product lines (SPLs), or software product line development, refers to software engineering methods, tools and techniques for creating a collection of similar software systems from a shared set of software assets using a common means of pro ...

, system engineering, system security,

internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...

technologies,

usability Usability can be described as the capacity of a system to provide a condition for its users to perform the tasks safely, effectively, and efficiently while enjoying the experience. In software engineering, usability is the degree to which a soft ...

and others. The courses are project oriented. This means that students have a large offering of internships and projects to develop at the university or in a company. Courses are taught in

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. Nevertheless, students can take advantage of the university language centre to learn local languages at zero costs. With EMSE, students will become familiar with the software engineering discipline both through theoretical and practical experience. This program aims at forming high qualified professionals in software engineering with a strong theoretical base and practical competence that can be spent both in industry and for a further education plan. Namely, motivated students are prepared for a future PhD, taking also advantage of the excellent connections of the EMSE consortium with international research centres and European consortia.

Partner universities

* Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (coordinating university) * Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain * Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany *

, Finland

References

External links

*{{official, http://em-se.eu
Programme's website at Libera Università di Bolzano2nd Workshop on the European Masters in Software Engineering (WEMSE)
College and university associations and consortia in Europe Computer science education Erasmus Mundus Programmes