Apply engineering solutions to the finance industry and see the landscape from a more quantitative perspective.<br><br>Retail software platforms, web trading desks, pricing software tools for new financial instruments, and cutting-edge information and knowledge discovery tools in a firm are all examples of software engineering or intra-system super structural software in financial institutions. These skills are incredibly important for software engineers looking to create impact in a financial world increasingly hungry for software-driven solutions to new market challenges.<br><br>Students who complete this certificate will go beyond the basics of software engineering to learn how engineering skills create direct value in financial markets, through an understanding of derivatives products, stochastic portfolio simulation, and pricing and hedging strategy.