Software Engineering

Software systems, small and large, lie at the heart of many processes throughout society. The task of software engineering is to make sure these systems are delivered on time, meet their budgets, and work right. The software engineering master's teaches the techniques that distinguish the true software engineering professional; the resulting skills and knowledge are in high demand in today's job market and will remain a particularly attractive qualification as software systems become increasingly pervasive and ever more challenging.

Example of topics that fall within the software engineering curriculum include: techniques for building large software systems; modern software environments, in particular virtual machines; component-based development; object technology; techniques for building software with verifiable properties (proofs, model checking and others); concurrent and distributed systems; modern programming languages; requirements and specification techniques; and many others.

Faculty members participating in this Master's track are actively engaged in numerous research projects across many different topics in the field, and offer a wide variety of challenging master's projects in software engineering, complementing the courses offered.

Prerequisites (applicable to ETH Computer Science students only)

Passed:

Min. 1 out of the following 2 passed:

Focus

26 credits to be achieved, including at least 20 from courses taught by faculty in the software master's, of which at least one is a seminar.

Elective Courses

20 - 24 credits to be achieved. Consult mentor for recommended courses.

Multidiscipline Courses

8 credits to be achieved.

HuSS Courses

2 credits to be achieved.

Master Thesis

The topic of the Master thesis has to be within the area of Software Engineering and must be accepted by the Mentor.

Professors involved

Peter Müller, Thomas Gross, Jürg Gutknecht, Bertrand Meyer, Markus Püschel