Semester 1

Core module

• Software Measurement and Quality Assurance
• Personal and Group Skills - this can be taken in either Semester

Option modules

Choose two option modules (or choose three if you are going to take Personal and Group Skills in Semester 2) from:

• Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering
• Mobile and Web Applications
• Advanced C++ Programming
• Technology and Innovation Management
• Agile Cloud Automation
• Internet and Cloud Computing
• Interaction Design (ID) and User Experience (UX)
• Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
• Operational Research

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Semester 2

Core module

• Generative Development
• Service-Oriented Architectures
• Personal and Group Skills - this can be taken in either Semester

Option modules

Choose one option module (or choose two if you took Personal and Group Skills in Semester 1) from:

• Analysis and Design of Algorithms
• Big Data and Predictive Analytics
• Foundations of Cybersecurity
• Algorithms for Bioinformatics
• Service Design
• AI for Space

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Industry Placement (optional)

Studying a 'with industry' masters degree is the perfect way for you to enhance your career prospects and deepen your understanding of your specific area of expertise. By experiencing real-world scenarios and applying your skills and knowledge to business challenges, you will gain a unique insight into how your studies can be utilised in industry. This will not only showcase your abilities to future employers, but will also enhance your studies when you return to University to complete your programme.

• Find out more about industrial placements

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Individual Project

Your course will conclude with an Individual Project (after your industry placement, if you have taken one). Using the experience gained during your course/placement, you will choose a challenging problem to work on and explore it by privately studying under the supervision of a member of the academic staff. (Students studying for a PGDip don't complete a project.)

A Selection of Recent MSc Projects

Agile Software Development of an e-Commerce Web App Using the MEAN Stack

The MEAN stack, released in October 2014, is an open-source stack for developing dynamic web applications. Using this technology a full stack e-commerce website was implemented by using JavaScript as the sole implementation language. Important design goals were the optimisation of non-functional properties, such as availability (for example, by having quick request response times) and scalability (for example, by speeding up data queries while guaranteeing data consistency). An important component of the project relied on the application of agile practices, such as behaviour-driven development and domain-driven design, to refine the specification of functional features of the system by means of fast paced scrum sprints that deliver fully working system increments. Moreover, the MEAN stack was complemented with an end-to-end test framework for AngularJS in order to automate functional and acceptance testing. The end product was acquired by a local business.

Virtual Chat Assistant

Like any large organisation, our university has a wide range of information to help you through your studies. For example - teaching timetables, the rooms and telephone numbers of staff and the number of credits for the modules you will take. This project is to provide this information through a chat interface, as text chat is now a very common way for users to interact with their devices. The challenge of this project is to create an interface that interact with users in a natural way, and integrate with various data sources so that is can answer questions such as “Tell me where the next lecture on C++ is  going to be held”.

WSDL/BPEL to SRML Language Transformation

SRML is the Reference Modelling Language of the European project SENSORIA. It provides primitives for modelling and reasoning about business processes in a way that is independent of the languages used for executing them. This project developed a tool for generating SRML models from two specific industry standards: The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), which is used for specifying business process based on Web Services, and the Web Services Description Languages (WSDL) – an XML format for describing network services. The encoding provides the means to create high-level declarative descriptions of BPEL/WSDL specifications that can be used for building more complex business process models that can include components specified in other languages.

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.