SE at Iowa State University

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate SE work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 66 SE and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 7 more SE courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in SE. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at SE 4920

  1. COMS 2280Introduction to Data Structures
  2. COMS 3210Introduction to Computer Architecture and Machine-Level Programming
  3. COMS 3520Introduction to Operating Systems
  4. CPRE 4910Senior Design Project I and Professionalism
  5. SE 4920Senior Design Project II

• 4 courses deep, ending at SE 1860

  1. MATH 1430Preparation for Calculus
  2. ENGR 1600Engineering Problems with Computer Applications Laboratory
  3. ABE 1600Systematic Problem Solving and Computer Programming

• 3 courses deep, ending at SE 3170

  1. COMS 2280Introduction to Data Structures
  2. COMS 3090Software Development Practices
  3. SE 3170Introduction to Software Testing

• 3 courses deep, ending at SE 4120

  1. COMS 2280Introduction to Data Structures
  2. COMS 3110Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Algorithms
  3. SE 4120Formal Methods in Software Engineering

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for SE yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under SE yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

SE does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Iowa State campus feed.