Software Engineering Blog

Today, January 25, 2022 US News has announced their online rankings for the 2022 Online Computer Information Technology (OCIT) Graduate Programs.  Our program has been ranked 28th, up 11 rankings from 2019.  Statler College Media Hub just released this announcement.  You can read more about the rankings at the US News website.

This month we focus on one of Full-time Tenured Faculty.  It is always great to know more about those that you plan on learning from in graduate school. Dr. Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova tells about her involvement with the program as the Academic Coordinator and why she enjoys teaching in the online program as well as more about her personal and professional life.  
Read about Dr. Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova by Click Here. 

This month we focus on two of our graduates.  How better to learn about a product or service than from someone that has used or experienced it?  My wife always asks me, "what does the reviews say about the product or service?" before we pay for it.  Brian Collins graduated several years ago from our program and Danielle Lewis just recently graduated.  They tell about the program and why they chose WVU and how this degree has impacted their successful careers.

My Name is Marcela Mera Trujillo. I was born in Colombia and developed an early interest in astronomy, physics, math, and robotics. Due to this, I did my undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics at my hometown university, Universidad del Cauca. After graduation, I moved to the United States to pursue further education. I got my Master's in Mathematics from West Virginia University and continue to study for my Ph.D. in Computer Science. Over the years, I have recognized the importance of helping. It wasn't easy to move from my home country and suddenly start speaking a new language as well as moving around a new university environment, but many people and University's staff have contributed to move forward and enjoy my study time. Now as a Graduate Services Assistant for the WVU's online software engineering program, I enjoy helping prospective students to navigate their new environment and to support the development of the program to new interactive technologies. 

Under the oversight of our Faculty, our MSSE student’s developed different projects for their classes every semester. One of these courses is SENG 540 Software Evolution which teaches how software evolves and how software engineers evolve software through various techniques/methods/patterns.  Jskoll, Tony, Jason, and Mike's project team for this course created a Pull Request (PR) within the GitHub Repository. Under the instruction of Dr. Hany Amar, the team worked the evolution of DevOps into DevSecOps in the NPM CI/CD Pipeline on the GitHub repository. Their contribution (GitHub repository and the pull request) was reviewed by the NPM cli team for adoption and has possible plans to make itself into an official build sometime in the near future for the 7.x major release of NPM .