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From: kwe@bu-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: software engineering
Message-ID: <5953@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 11:36:37 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  1 11:36:37 1987
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Reply-To: kwe@buit13.bu.edu (Kent England)
Organization: Boston Univ. Info Tech
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In article <1285@rti-sel.UUCP> wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) writes:

> There are, I think, a few programs in software engineering 
>around. For example, there's the Wang Institute for Graduate Studies 
>in Tyngsboro, Mass. that offers a Master's degree in software 
>engineering. Anyone know of any other S.E. programs?
>

	Unfortunately, the Wang program is no more.  Wang has been
forced to give up the Wang Institute because of Wang's money problems.
Boston University is taking over the facility in Tyngsboro and
responsibility for graduating the students, but I don't think the
Software Engineering program will continue.  Dr. Wang created the
Institute precisely because he could not find the software engineers
that he wanted, even in the Boston area.  Wang's program was ambitious
and, unfortunately, gold-plated.

	There is ample opportunity for Software Engineering programs,
but the students and the companies have to be convinced that it
is better than a good CS or EE program.

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