Developing a New Software Engineering Program at CSUSM
(World News Science)

Dr. Yongjie Zheng is a computer science and software engineering expert. Now he`s on the ground floor of Cal State San Marcos` new software engineering program, a program that will offer its first courses next fall and will graduate its first class of students in 2021. Zheng is one of the program`s first two faculty members, and he has been working on the curriculum and outreach since this past summer. The other inaugural faculty member, Dr. Simon Fan, arrives in January. `There are an increasing number of universities in the country that have an independent software engineering program, and this is a great opportunity to have an impact on building something new,` Zheng said. `We held...