Software Engineering with Industrial Experience (5 Years) [MEng]

Course unit choices

The following table provides an indication of the typical choice of course units available to students studying Software Engineering wIE MEng (Hons). These course units are subject to change and are the latest example of the curriculum available on this course of study.

For a detailed explanation of course units available to current students please refer to the options page of the School's intranet for current students.

Themes

In the second and third year of study Software Engineering wIE MEng (Hons) students are required to specialise by completing two collections of related course units called themes.

Agile Methods
Agile Methods focus on processes and techniques for managing software projects under challenging conditions. Agile Methods are important because software often has to be developed under pressures of time and in uncertain settings, where more traditional software development techniques have proved to be too cumbersome.
Rigorous Development
Rigorous Development is concerned with techniques for specifying and analysing algorithms and systems, with a view to reaching a level of understanding that enables guarantees to be made about their behaviour. Rigorous Development is important as many applications of computer systems are both complex and safety critical, and thus stand to benefit from a systematic investigation of their properties.
Software Engineering
Software Engineering is concerned with all aspects of software production, from the early stages of requirements gathering, through system design and implementation, to maintenance and evolution. Software Engineering is important because software projects may involve large teams of people, diverse or conflicting requirements, tight timescales and limited budgets.

Study year 1 course units

Students take a set of course units from the following list. Some units are compulsory and some are optional. Other external course units may be available. For full details of the see the options page of the School's intranet for current students.

Course unit code	Title
COMP10120	First Year Team Project
COMP11120	Mathematical Techniques for Computer Science
COMP11212	Fundamentals of Computation
COMP12111	Fundamentals of Computer Engineering
COMP14112	Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence
COMP15111	Fundamentals of Computer Architecture
COMP16121	Object Oriented Programming with Java 1
COMP16212	Object Oriented Programming with Java 2
COMP18112	Fundamentals of Distributed Systems

Study year 2 course units

Course unit code	Title
COMP23111	Fundamentals of Databases
COMP23311	Software Engineering 1
COMP23412	Software Engineering 2
COMP25111	Operating Systems
COMP26120	Algorithms and Imperative Programming
COMP28112	Distributed Computing
COMP21111	Logic and Modelling
COMP22111	Processor Microarchitecture
COMP24111	Machine Learning and Optimisation
COMP22712	Microcontrollers
COMP24412	Symbolic AI
COMP25212	System Architecture
COMP27112	Computer Graphics and Image Processing
COMP28512	Mobile Systems
BMAN10011	Fundamentals of Management
BMAN10252	Fundamentals of Technological Change
BMAN10552	Fundamentals of Finance
BMAN10612	Business Economics
BMAN10621B	Fundamentals of Financial Reporting
BMAN10632	Fundamentals of Accounting
BMAN20242	Introduction to Corporate Finance & Financial Instruments
BMAN20792	Technology Strategy & Innovation 1
BMAN20821	New Product Development and Innovation
BMAN20832	Marketing
BMAN21012	Global Contexts of Business and Management
BMAN21061	Introduction to Management Information Systems
UCIL10201	Language, Mind and Brain
UCIL10221	Science and the Modern World
UCIL20001	Leadership of Learning
UCIL20021	Leadership in Action
UCIL20022	Leadership in Action
UCIL20031	Leadership in Action Online Unit
UCIL20032	Leadership in Action Online Unit
UCIL20092	The Crisis of Nature: Issues in Environmental History
UCIL20102	Multilingual Manchester
UCIL20111	Core Themes in Animation and Visual Culture of Post War Japan
UCIL20112	Mental Health
UCIL20112	Mental Health
UCIL20122	AI: Robot Overlord, Replacement or Colleague?
UCIL20122	AI: Robot Overlord, Replacement or Colleague?
UCIL20211	Are we alone?
UCIL20282	The Information Age
UCIL20331	From Cholera to Aids: A Global History of Epidemics
UCIL20882	An Introduction to Current Topics in Biology
UCIL21002	Leadership of Learning
UCIL21202	Bioethics: Contemporary Issues in Science and Biomedicine
UCIL21301	Communicating with Confidence
UCIL21302	Communicating with Confidence
UCIL21331	Becoming an inspirational individual
UCIL21802	Body, Health and Well-Being
UCIL22001	Essential Enterprise
UCIL22002	Essential Enterprise
UCIL22501	Global Citizenship and Sustainability
UCIL23302	Science and Civilisation in East Asia
UCIL24002	The Art of Enterprise
UCIL24141	Science, Technology and Democracy
UCIL25002	The Digital Society
UCIL29002	Physics & The Grand Challenges of Today
ULAR10010	Beginners' Arabic
ULAR10020	Elementary Arabic
ULAR10032	Introduction to Spoken Arabic
ULAR11010	Beginners' Arabic
ULAR20110	Intermediate Arabic
ULAR20210	Pre-intermedite Arabic
ULAR21110	Intermediate Arabic NC
ULBS20011	Intro to British Sign Language S1
ULBS20012	Introduction to British Sign Language - Part 1
ULBS20022	Introduction to British Sign Language - Part 2
ULCH10022	Introduction to Spoken Chinese
ULCH10200	Beginners' Mandarin Chinese
ULCH20020	Post-intermediate Mandarin Chinese
ULCH20021	Post-intermediate Chinese - first semester
ULCH20110	Pre-intermediate Mandarin Chinese
ULDU10010	Beginners' Dutch
ULDU20010	Intermediate Dutch
ULFR10010	Beginners' French
ULFR10022	Introductory French
ULFR10032	Introductory French
ULFR11010	Intermediate Business French
ULFR20010	Intermediate French
ULFR20020	Post-intermediate French
ULFR20030	Further French
ULFR20110	Pre-Intermediate French
ULGE10010	Beginners' German
ULGE10012	Beginners German
ULGE10021	Introductory German
ULGE10022	Introductory German
ULGE20010	Intermediate German
ULGE20020	Post-Intermediate German
ULGE20030	Further German
ULGE20110	Pre-intermediate German
ULGE30022	Introductory German (A1.1 ) - Enhanced
ULHB10030	Beginners' Hebrew
ULHB20030	Intermediate Hebrew
ULIT10010	Beginner's Italian
ULIT10011	Beginners' Italian
ULIT10022	Introductory Italian
ULIT20010	Intermediate Italian
ULIT20020	Post-Intermediate Italian
ULIT20110	Pre-Intermediate Italian
ULIT30010	Beginners' Italian
ULJA10010	Beginners' Japanese
ULJA10022	Introduction to Spoken Japanese
ULJA11010	Beginners' Japanese
ULJA20010	Intermediate Japanese
ULJA20020	Post-intermediate Japanese
ULJA20110	Pre-Intermediate Japanese
ULJA20112	Pre-intermediate Japanese
ULJA21010	Intermediate Japanese
ULKR10010	Beginners' Korean
ULPT10010	Beginners' Portuguese
ULRU10010	Beginners' Russian
ULRU20010	Intermediate Russian
ULSP10010	Beginners' Spanish
ULSP10021	Introductory Spanish
ULSP10022	Introductory Spanish
ULSP10050	Beginners Spanish (Fast track)
ULSP20010	Intermediate Spanish
ULSP20020	Intermediate Spanish
ULSP20030	Further Spanish
ULSP20110	Pre-Intermediate Spanish

Study year 3 course units

Course unit code	Title
COMP30040	3rd Year Project (Single Honours 40 Credits)
MCEL30031	Enterprise Management for Computer Scientists
MCEL30032	Managing Finance in Enterprises for Computer Scientists
COMP32211	Implementing System-on-Chip Designs
COMP33511	User Experience
COMP33711	Agile Software Engineering
COMP36111	Advanced Algorithms 1
COMP37111	Advanced Computer Graphics
COMP38411	Cryptography and Network Security
COMP34412	Natural Language Systems
COMP35112	Chip Multiprocessors
COMP36212	Advanced Algorithms 2
COMP36512	Compilers
COMP37212	Computer Vision
COMP32412	The Internet of Things: Architectures and Applications
COMP34120	AI and Games
COMP38120	Documents, Services and Data on the Web

Study year 4 course units

Course unit code	Title
COMP40901	UG MEng Industrial Project
MCEL40042	Business Feasibility Study
COMP60411	Modelling data on the web
COMP60611	Parallel Programs and their Performance
COMP60711	Data Engineering
COMP61011	Foundations of Machine Learning
COMP61411	Cryptography
COMP60621	Designing for Parallelism and Future Multi-core Computing
COMP61021	Modelling and visualization of high-dimensional data
COMP61421	Cyber Security
COMP62421	Querying Data on the Web
COMP62521	Agile and Test-Driven Development
COMP60332	Automated Reasoning and Verification
COMP60532	Principles of Digital Biology
COMP61232	Mobile and Energy Efficient Systems
COMP61332	Text Mining
COMP62532	Component-based Software Development
COMP60542	Introduction to Health Informatics
COMP61242	Mobile Communications
COMP61342	Computer Vision
BMAN60092	Risk, Performance and Decision Analysis
BMAN60422	Data Analytics for Business Decision Making
BMAN70391	Strategic Project Organising
BMAN71652	Information and Knowledge Management
BMAN73272	Decision Behaviour, Analysis and Support
MCEL63402	Essential Risk Management for Business

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