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One way to improve the communication abilities of new software engineering graduates in the workplace is to integrate communication more effectively in the software engineering curriculum. But faculty typically conceive of communication as outside their realm of expertise. Based on the results of an NSF-funded project, we use theories of situated learning and genre to make the case that communication...
Software Engineering is important for the students majored in computer science and technology. This curriculum is intended to provide students with an overall view over Software Engineering as an engineering discipline and with insight into the processes of software development. Creating software Engineering curriculum faces several challenges: (1) Software Engineering has wide coverage, but teaching...
Nowadays, many universities include Personal Software Process (PSP) into their software engineering curriculum. However, delivering PSP course in tertiary education environment always faces at least two challenges. Firstly, in a typical PSP course in education environment, one teacher may teach much more students than a typical PSP class in industry, hence it is extremely difficult to provide evaluation...
The undergraduate course in Software Engineering that was created in the University of Brasilia is the first undergraduate level course of this nature in Brazil. The focus of this program is on the development and on the quality of software and it is based on models for improvement of the software development process such as the Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) and the Reference Model of...
Over the past several years we have collaborated with a variety of industrial partners to carry out applied research and capstone design projects in cooperation with our students. Although the projects have varied widely, more often than not, success or failure lies within the students' ability to see beyond the technical challenges into the subtleties of the business and the meaning of value. Looking...
As businesses rely on software solutions to preserve their position in a highly competitive market, the need for reliable and robust software systems is vital. Lately, there has been a significant interest in building software using models as their main artifacts. Unlike traditional development techniques which tend to be code-centric, model driven approaches, such as the Model Driven Architecture...
Student-centered learning implies an increased degree of responsibility in the learning context by the student, and an equally increased level of delegation by the teacher. This paper looks at Growpsilas model of student development towards life-long learning, and discusses the adaptations made to a software engineering curriculum in order to empower students to take control of their learning.
To counter the problems existing in the process of object-oriented analysis and design teaching, the application necessity of the society and the status of the present IT intellectuals, this article points out a method of elicitation teaching for object-oriented analysis and design curriculum. And after application, the result shows that it can sufficiency motivate the students' studying enthusiasm...
With the popularization of object-oriented technologies in software development, more and more schools of software engineering are adding design patterns into their curricula as an essential component. However it is not easy for students who are still not very well-versed in object-oriented technologies to learn this course well. Many CS and SE students find it difficult to apprehend. Even though...
This paper examines the outcomes of teaching a course in software testing in Ireland and China over a two-year period. In both institutions the delivery of the course is constrained to two-week duration. The learning objectives for this course are explained. The outcomes of the courses in terms of student learning are compared and analyzed. A number of observations are made that lead to recommendations...
Communication - between humans - remains at the heart of software development. This workshop will serve as a forum for those invested in this topic to articulate challenges and solutions, and to build links for further work.
This study identifies the places where software assurance knowledge best fits with the elements of a standard software engineering curriculum. This is useful because there is currently no common understanding of the places in a traditional software engineering curriculum where software assurance should be taught. It would appear that the recommendations of the DHS CBK can be justified as a basis for...
An inverted classroom is a teaching environment that mixes the use of technology with hands-on activities. In an inverted classroom, typical in-class lecture time is replaced with laboratory and in-class activities. Outside class time, lectures are delivered over some other medium such as video on-demand. In a three credit hour course for instance, contact hours are spent having students actively...
In computer science curricula the two areas programming and software engineering are usually separated. In programming students learn an object oriented language and then deepen their knowledge in other languages, algorithms and data structures. On the other hand software engineering starts with discussing processes and then addresses topics like requirements engineering, software design and software...
China currently has one of the world's fastest growing software industries. However the demand for skilled software engineers is currently outstripping supply. Educational institutes are the primary provider of software engineers. Not only can China's educational institutes not meet the demands of software engineers in terms of quantity, the quality of software engineering graduates at the moment...
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