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Software Reliability Engineering Program

at the University of Maryland, College Park

The Software Reliability Engineering Program at the University of Maryland provides a diverse range of academic and research opportunities for the software professional. These opportunities are available either on a full-time or part-time basis for both degree seeking and non-degree seeking students. The emphasis is on a practical educational opportunities which will raise the reliability, quality and safety of the customer's products and services. The ultimate goal of the curriculum is to enable students to design, develop, field, and maintain software with minimum measurable and predictable failures.

The program will be hosted by the Reliability Engineering Program of the University of Maryland at College Park. Sometimes the program could be offered at a remote locations through the ITV network for expanded student coverage and convenience.

The different courses and a sample sequence for degree attainment are illustrated in Table 1.

The program is open to computer science undergraduates as well as engineering, mathematics, physics and chemistry undergraduates. Basic requirements are mastery of at least one high-level language (PASCAL, C, C++, FORTRAN) and a good level in mathematics including statistics.

Laboratory facilities are available in the Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering and each software-oriented course will include two or more laboratory experiments. Software analyzers, software for test case generation, and software reliability assessment packages will be used in the software assurance and software reliability courses. Formal methods and fault tree software will be available in the software safety course.

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Curriculum>SRE at UMCP