The GSEEM Master programme prepares future software engineers to work in distributed professional environments where collaborators are distant in their geographical location, in their personal and organizational culture, and in their professional practices.

Global software engineering combines technical engineering expertise with socio-cultural competences. This combination provides the future generation of global software professionals with the skills necessary to build innovative software in a global environment and to successfully manage global software projects.

Technical expertise

Technical areas in which the GSEEM partner universities excel are: Web systems and services, real-time embedded systems, and software architecture. Everyday examples include: Web 2.0 applications like Napster and services like Google and Amazon; tele-medicine and e-governement; airport traffic control or pay-per-view home entertainment.

The GSEEM programme includes subjects like: dynamic, component-based and service oriented architectures; product lines development in industry fields like automotive and consumer electronics; analysis and design of quality requirements like security, performance or usability; development of Web services and alignment with user requirements.

Socio-cultural competencies

Socio-cultural competences include: multi-cultural teamwork, internationalization issues in the IT industry, global organizational patterns, off-shoring and outsourcing business models, "around-the-clock" collaboration.
 

This European Master programme will give you this expertise!

We will teach you to become acquainted with global issues that become important in the software engineering profession. You will learn to interact with global collaborators in an effective way, recognizing and understanding cultural differences and turning them in an advantage. You will be able to manage and participate in large distributed projects developing software systems in the most challenging software engineering areas. You will be able to share and communicate the right professional knowledge across geographical and sociological boundaries.

During your studies you will collaborate with students from different European countries, learning from each other and enjoying studying together. Part of your study will take place in a different European country, providing you with a great experience and enriching your professional curriculum. The different institutions participating in this European Master programme are specialised in different aspects of engineering large software systems. Using these specialities, a multidisciplinary approach is offered to give you a holistic perspective and understanding. This prepars you to serve as a future manager of IT software projects, or a chief architect or a main analyst of software systems, or a project leader in a global distributed environment.