Job Introduction or What They Do?

Being a Software engineer is a career which has a lot of scope in any part of the world because they are involved with designing and developing various kinds of softwares, which is essential in the computer age of today. In Software engineering students are taught not only just development of software but also about the trouble shooters of these softwares. In terms of job availability, well there are a lot of opportunities even in the government sector but the problem is there are a few certified software engineers. Mainly software engineering is applying engineering to software.

How to Steps:

1. In Pakistan there are many Private and Public universities which award the Bachelor of Engineering degree with names such as B.Sc. Engg, B.S. Engg, B.E, B.Tech (Hons), B. Sc. Technology and A.M.I.E. This Bachelors degree of Software Engineering is rewarded to a student who has completed 4 years in engineering, which consists of 8 semesters. You can enter in to a software engineering program after 12 years of schooling.

2. Students are required to appear in an entry test and final evaluation is made by evaluating their intermediate Marks and entry test grades.

3. Due to the growth of the telecommunication sector in the country, students are more interested in becoming telecommunication engineers and software engineers. The Pakistan Engineering council is a regulatory body of engineers in Pakistan. The PEC grants registration certificates to those graduates only who complete their engineering studies from Universities offering engineering programs. This declares then as certified engineers capable of carrying out professional engineering works in private or public sector.

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4. Engineers are registered in two categories Registered engineers and professional engineers. Graduate engineers are registered as Registered Engineers and 5 years of further experience after graduation can make them be registered as professional engineers.

Course Structure:

Software engineering has different disciplines which are taught which include learning about software requirement, software design, software construction, software testing, software maintenance, software configuration management, software engineering management, software engineering process, software engineering tools and methods and software quality. After the completion of Bachelor of Software engineering, graduates would have knowledge of analysis, synthesis and designing of complex systems. They would know about the ethical standards and legal responsibilities, principles of management of physical, human and financial resources. They would know how to apply mathematics to software problems, they would know about team management skills as well.

Job Opportunities:

There are many jobs available in Pakistan for software engineers. Due to increase in the use of computers in organizations and households, increased use of automations and the expansion of the telecommunication industry there is great scope for software engineers in Pakistan. Organizations now are largely using software solutions to all there managerial problems. There are many sources to search for software engineering jobs; there are many job advertisements on the internet and in newspapers. There are large companies which are now implementing softwares for their increased efficiency and even getting softwares made according to the needs of their organizations. Therefore scope for software engineers is increasing. Software engineers work with businesses, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Some software engineers work as freelancers. Organizations also employ specialists to perform each task in the process of developing software. Other organizations might just employ many software engineers to perform all the tasks in the process. In large projects, individual software engineers may specialize in one role. In smaller projects engineers may play several roles or perform several jobs at once.

Remuneration:

The average annual salary of a software engineer is Rs. 643544. But it mainly depends on the organization. It depends on how much experience that software engineer has in the field and what kind of work he is supposed to do. If software application and development is a large part of the operations of an organization, obviously this would mean a larger work load and responsibility for the software engineer so she would be paid more.

Top 10 Engineering Universities of Pakistan:

1. Pakistan Institute of Engg. and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Islamabad

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2. National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Rawalpindi

3. Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering (GIKI), Swabi

4. University of Engg. & Technology (UET),  Lahore

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5. Mehran University of Engg. & Technology (MUET), Jamshoro

6. University of Engg. & Technology (UET), Taxila

7. National Univ. of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES), Islamabad

8. COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad

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9. NWFP University of Engg. & Technology,  Peshawar

10. NED University of Engg. & Technology,  Karachi