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From: scofield@apollo.uucp (Cary Scofield)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Wang Institute Closed
Message-ID: <3bb181a3.9afe@apollo.uucp>
Date: 26 Apr 88 14:12:00 GMT
References: <5214@aw.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: scofield@apollo.UUCP (Cary Scofield)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <5214@aw.sei.cmu.edu> maa@sei.cmu.edu (Mark Ardis) writes:
>
>>wlp@calmasd.GE.COM (Walter L. Peterson, Jr.) wrote:
>>1. Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, MA (although I had heard rumors that
>>that program might be terminated )
>
>Wang Institute was closed last August.  The property was sold to
>Boston University, who decided not to continue the MSE program.  Two
>former WIGS faculty will be reporting on the status of new programs
>that they are starting at the 1988 SEI Conference on Software
>Engineering Education (April 28 and 29 in Fairfax, VA).
>

I feel a correction is in order: I should like to point out that some
aspects of the Wang Institute MSE program IS being continued under the
auspices of another former WIGS faculty member at Boston University. 
In fact, several of the Boston area WIGS students who were caught in
the "changeover" are now continuing their graduate software
engineering degree work at B.U.

Basically speaking, about half of the WIGS MSE program has been merged
in with half of the BU MSSE program. The curriculum leans heavily in
favor of real-time systems design.  From the WIGS curriculum there are
courses in Formal Methods,  Software Engineering Methodologies,
Requirements Analysis, Software Project Management, and the Software
Engineering Project.  From the BU curriculum are courses on Switching
Theory, Computer Architecture, and Embedded Real-time Systems
Development, among others.  Missing, unfortunately, is the one of
the very-useful WIGS core courses entitled "Management Concepts". 
Can't have everything, I guess!

For further info, contact:

    Dr. John Brackett
    Boston University 
    College of Engineering
    44 Cummington St.
    Boston MA 02215

    (617) 353-5898

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