At the University of Waterloo, Software Engineering is an independent, interdisciplinary program supported by both the Faculty of Mathematics and the Faculty of Engineering. Graduates of this program will earn a Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSE) degree.
Faculty of Engineering
Courses provided by the Faculty of Engineering show students how to design and how to solve problems in digital hardware and software.
Faculty of Math
Courses provided by the Faculty of Math give students the background they need to understand computing fundamentals and to model and reason about software behaviour.
News
WATORACE wins 4th in Indy Autonomous Challenge Virtual Race #3
WATORACE, including SE's own Kyle Anderson, won 4th place in the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) virtual race #3, also capturing the Rising Star Award. The IAC brings together 18 university teams from 11 countries on 4 continents in the world’s first head-to-head, high-speed autonomous race at the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS).
ECE Prof Ladan Tahvildari named Chair of IEEE TCSE
ECE Professor Ladan Tahvildari has been named Chair of the IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering.
SE Student Wins ACM/ICSE Research Award
SE2023 student Vikram Subramanian won first place in the ACM undergraduate student research competition at ICSE 2020 for his work titled An empirical study of first-time open source contributors on Github, which was supervised by Prof Mei Naggapan. Great work!