软件工程是指导软件开发与维护的工程学科，是计算机科学与技术专业的重要的专业课程。本课程主要介绍软件开发及管理过程的原理、方法及应用。为了使学生掌握现代化的软件设计开发思想和方法，本课程结合当代软件工程技术的发展实际，向学生系统地讲述软件工程相关知识，包括软件工程的概念、原理、技术，经时间考验的管理技术、当前的技术方法等，并选择典型的软件工程开发案例进行剖析，使学生将所学灵活地应用于实际的软件开发中。通过本课程的学习，训练学生的软件分析能力，使学生进一步掌握软件系统的各种开发方法和技术，提高软件设计水平。
本课程适用于计算机软件、计算机应用、信息工程等相关专业学生学习。总学时为48学时，其中理论学时为24，实验学时24，理论课与实验课学时之比为1:1。
software engineering is a discipline to guide the development and maintenance of software, and an important core course of computer science and technology major. this course introduces the principle, methods and applications of software development and management procedure. in order to help the students to grasp the modern software design and development thoughts and methods, this course incorporates the new trend of modern software development practice and elaborates the relative knowledge of software engineering systematically, including the concepts, principles, methods and ideas, as well as the management strategies p roved by the time and tide and the popular techniques. it is based on the typical software engineering cases so as to show the flexible application of the real software development. the course aims to cultivate the students with the analysis capability and application of all kinds of development methods and techniques and improve the design level of software systems.
this course is oriented to computer software, computer application, information engineering and related majors. this course has 48 hours all for lessons, with 24 hours for theoretical class and practicing teaching respectively, keeping a proper ratio of 1 to 1.