The software architecture systems course examines the principles and techniques for the architectural design of complex systems using well-founded architectural paradigms. It considers commonly-used software system structures, techniques for designing and implementing these structures, models and formal notations for characterizing and reasoning about architectures, tools for generating specific instances of an architecture, and case studies of actual system architectures.

The enterprise application integration course provides the techniques on how to design and deploy large-scale systems and understand the trade-offs and implications of supporting the critical backbone of modern enterprises.

The software maintenance course examines the principles and techniques used for the maintenance of software systems.

The systems engineering course examines the methods, tools, and validation techniques for the analysis, specification and prototyping of software systems.

The software measurements and quality assurance course provides an in-depth evaluation of the verification and validation process throughout the development lifecycle of software.

The software design course examines the general software design concepts and design process and enabling techniques. Topics include key issues in software design, software structure and architecture styles including human computer interface design, software design quality analysis and evaluation, software design notations, software design strategies and methods including heuristic and formal methods and component-based design

The software testing course focuses on the techniques and processes for testing software reliability, reliability models, and techniques to improve and predict software reliability.

The software engineering course examines the concepts of system hierarchical relationships and the role of system engineers.

The real-time software and systems course provides a comprehensive view of real-time systems with theory, techniques and methods necessary for effective design and development of real-time computing system.

The real-time software and systems course provides a comprehensive view of real-time systems with theory, techniques and methods necessary for effective design and development of real-time computing system.