Developing an undergraduate software engineering curriculum within an existing computer science program

This paper proposes an evolutionary approach for developing an undergraduate software engineering program within an existing computer science program. The proposed approach is evolutionary because of the fairly common university requirement that a new program must already have some identifiable courses, students, faculty, and other resources before it is formally approved. The approach consists of five steps and has two main goals: a gradual establishment of an undergraduate software engineering program and the introduction of key software engineering concepts within an undergraduate computer science program which now exists and will continue to exist.