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ELEC1005: Introduction to Software Engineering
2026 unit information
This unit of study will introduce student to the field of software engineering. It will expose the students to fundamental (basic) concepts of key areas within software engineering including Requirement Engineering, Software Design (Architecture and Modeling), Software Quality Engineering, and Software Process Engineering. This unit also provides students with practical experience to start to develop the required engineering skills through case studies of authentic open-source software projects and hands-on development experience of software projects in a group, as well as communication, documentation, and presentation skills. The unit will provide students with a sound foundation for the further study of software engineering.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Engineering
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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ENGG1800 or CHNG1108 or MECH1560 or AERO1560 or BMET1960 or MTRX1701 or ELEC1004 or ENVE1001 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Explain and evaluate the purpose of each stage of the software development lifecycle: planning, feasibility analysis, system design, implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance.
- LO2. Analyse stakeholder requirements and transform a conceptual problem into a verifiable functional prototype that meets defined feasibility and requirement benchmarks.
- LO3. Create technical presentations to communicate software designs and present software artifacts to stakeholders and team members.
- LO4. Incorporate stakeholder feedback to refine and improve software designs.
- LO5. Work as a group to create a functional software application by integrating stakeholder requirements, design principles, appropriate development tools and agile practices.
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