Approaches to the development of systems in computer engineering, the special problems and the issues, primarily through hands-on design experiences and development of professional skills. The course provides information about the principles, methods and skills that are essential to engineering design. Concept of a life-cycle, nature of life cycle models, and phases of typical life cycles. Ethics and legal issues. Quality issues, process and process improvement. Issue of teams, team selection, roles in teams, and elements of teamwork. Selection of design and design alternatives for experiments, selection of test cases, support tools, standards and emerging technologies. Techniques and approaches associated with the different phases, special problems of design and the issues associated with tradeoffs, special problems of hardware/software tradeoffs, specifications and requirements engineering, design and architecture, testing, integration, maintenance, oral and written technical communication.