Program Accreditation
The Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering Technology is accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET, under the commission’s General Criteria with no applicable program criteria.
ABET is a specialized accrediting board recognized by the Council for Higher Education and/or the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.
Program Mission
The mission of the Software Engineering Technology (SET) bachelor's degree program within the Computer Systems Engineering Technology (CSET) Department at Oregon Institute of Technology is to prepare our students for productive careers in industry and government by providing an excellent education incorporating industry-relevant, applied laboratory-based instruction in both the theory and application of software engineering. The program is to serve a constituency consisting of our alumni, our employers, and our Industrial Advisory Board. Major components of the SET program's mission in the CSET Department are:
- To educate a new generation of Software Engineering Technology students to meet current and future industrial challenges.
- To promote a sense of scholarship, leadership, and professional service among our graduates.
- To enable our students to create, develop, and disseminate knowledge within the software development environment.
- To expose our students to cross-disciplinary educational programs.
- To provide high tech industry employers with graduates in the computer engineering technology profession.
Program Educational Objectives
The Program Educational Objectives of Oregon Tech's Software Engineering Technology Program are to produce graduates who:
- Use their knowledge of engineering to creatively and innovatively solve difficult computer systems problems.
- Regularly engage in exploring, learning, and applying state-of-the-art hardware and software technologies to the solution of computer system problems.
- Will be an effective team member who contributes to innovative software design solutions to the resolution of real-world problems.
- Will communicate effectively both as an individual and within multi-disciplinary teams.
Program Student Outcomes
- An ability to apply knowledge, techniques, skills and modern tools of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology to solve broadly-defined engineering problems appropriate to the discipline.
- An ability to design systems, components, or processes meeting specified needs for broadly-defined engineering problems appropriate to the discipline.
- An ability to apply written, oral, and graphical communication in broadly-defined technical and non-technical environments; and an ability to identify and use appropriate technical literature.
- An ability to conduct standard tests, measurements, and experiments and to analyze and interpret the results to improve processes.
- An ability to function effectively as a member as well as a leader on technical teams.
Summary of Program Student Outcomes
The Computer Systems Engineering Technology faculty formally assess the student outcomes summarized in the annual program assessment report. Additional details can be found in department assessment records.
Program Curriculum Map
The curriculum map for the Software Engineering Technology bachelor's degree program can be found on the catalog web page on the Oregon Tech website, www.oit.edu/catalog.
Annual Program Assessment Reports
Enrollment & Graduate Data
Contact
Casey Santosh is Director of the Center of Excellence in Applied Computing, Professor of AI, and Chair of the Departments of Computer Systems Engineering Technology and Applied Computing & Geomatics (interim) at Oregon Institute of Technology. Previously, he served at the University of South Dakota as Chair of Computer Science (2020–2026), Graduate Program Director (2017–2024), and Professor of AI (2015-2026) as well as Founding Director of AI Research (2015–2026), following more than four years of research appointments at the National Institutes of Health and LORIA Research Center, France. He holds a PhD in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) from INRIA Nancy Grand Est/Université de Lorraine, France. He has secured over $10 million in funding from SDBOR, NSF, ED, and DOW, delivered more than 100 international keynotes, including a TEDx talk, and authored 13 books and over 280 peer-reviewed publications, including articles in IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TMI, and IEEE TAI. He has founded and chaired over a dozen AI conferences (IEEE), served as a panelist for NSF and Mitacs, and held editorial roles for leading journals, including IEEE TAI and IEEE TMI. He has contributed to NIST's AI Standards and Innovation group and the U.S. Department of State's U.S. Speaker Program on AI education. More information: www.kc-santosh.org