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Since its founding in 1989, the Studio-based Master of Software Engineering (MSE) Program at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has been a trailblazer in advancing the practice of masters-level professional software engineering education. From its inception, the program was designed around a comprehensive development project, the Studio. The Studio provides students with a team-based, mentored, multi-semester...
Distributed Software Development course is a joint project-based course involving three universities, from Croatia, Sweden and Italy, running each year since 2003. Distributed student teams work on all phases of a complex software engineering project, solving several challenges of working in a global environment, thus obtaining a valuable experience for their future careers. The course is very well...
Q. How did your education and early career lead to your initial and continuing interest in the control field? Paulo: During my undergraduate studies, the subjects I enjoyed the most were always those that were mathematically more demanding. This narrowed down the choice of topics I wanted to pursue in my "licenciatura" thesis. I was fortunate to work on the control of the first Portuguese...
This paper proposed a workshop to introduce the use of computational tools and methods to analyze educational data. The workshop will demonstrate three different contexts in which these tools can be used to visualize and characterize patterns within educational data, and validate them using statistical techniques. Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to learn how to implement these...
CPS engineers need to possess both technical and social skills to run CPS-engineering projects successfully. Especially social skills are crucial as the project fails are mostly caused because of lacking social skills of project members. Besides strong social skills, CPS engineers need to have a wide range of various technical skills as the products they deal with are getting increasingly complex...
One of the biggest challenges of organizations in contemporary times is the ability to manage rapid changes in business environment. Software and expert information systems can help to manage changes and thus contribute to addressing this challenge. The initial, and perhaps, most important activities in software and expert systems development are to elicit, analyze, specify, and validate requirements...
This paper reports on an investigation into perceptions of international university lecturers and their concerns about students' social and academic motivation for learning in online learning environments. The study results suggest that pedagogic lurking is a widespread phenomenon, with some perceiving it as problematic and others as a step towards more active participation. Most interestingly, there...
The past decade has observed a continuously increasing internationalization of higher education institutions. Multicultural instruction is challenging for educators and students alike. Japanese universities follow the same trend, striving to become more and more internationalized, classes need to accommodate both local, Japanese students, and international, foreign students. Based on the author's...
IEEE Security & Privacy met with several interesting speakers at the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), held 24-28 October 2016 in Vienna. IEEE S&P is highlighting these interviews in its Spotlight department. This issue features MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Hamed Okhravi, cryptographer and cryptanalyst Bart Preneel of KU Leuven, and former assistant director...
This paper proposed a new teaching technique for engineering courses based on the implementation of drone technology. In some engineering related courses, teaching and learning are difficult due to very complex theoretical and technical explanation need to be digested by the non experienced students. In Malaysia, quadcopter is one of the technologies that become popular among young generation due...
Smart boards enable students to learn and explore new concepts using technology to create a more dynamic learning experience. Students become more excited about learning when the smart boards are incorporated into the lesson. Many educators encourage the use of smart boards in teaching and learning. This paper presents a conceptual framework for the use of smart boards among students and teachers...
Education and technology have a very close relationship and it cannot be denied. Education is now very depending with technology and always keeps evolving to support each other. Teaching methods are now drastically change because the present of rapid development of technology. The way of teaching is now shifting due to the available technology and the students, parents and the society no longer accept...
Traditional STEM education models in electrical engineering and computer science rely on structured classes, laboratories, and textbooks to transfer key concepts. Even though this process meets most of the ABET objectives, it does not respond well to current workforce needs that require widely accessible programs that will provide a large pool of graduates with STEM backgrounds, analytical and programming...
Three-dimensional virtual worlds have been studied by many researchers around the world, including in educational contexts. A range of possibilities have emerged from this type of environment, such as improvements in distance education and other educational technologies. But there are some problems related to the use of this environment, such as complex authorship tools, which need to be discussed...
Soft skills, societal awareness and the ability to work in interdisciplinary teams are crucial traits for future software engineers. Still, these social skills seem to be underrepresented in the education of software engineers. To support a practical integration of such aspects also into education, a so-called “Diversity Framework” has been developed that helps to externalize implicit factors such...
English, though not being the native language, is the language of instruction across the schooling years in Mauritius. Indeed, English literacy is introduced to young students at the pre-primary level as it is a pre-requisite for all other subjects, except French language in Standard One of primary level. In consequence, it is imperative that students acquire English literacy skills at pre-primary...
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have played a major role in shaping our society, affecting nearly all aspects of our daily lives. In educational contexts, the ongoing technological revolution we are experiencing naturally calls for a transformation of traditional teaching and learning processes. The integration and efficient use of emergent technologies have become fundamental challenges...
Mutation testing is endorsed by software testing researchers for its unique capability of providing pragmatic estimates of a test suite's fault detection capability, and for guiding testers in improving their test suites. In practice, however, wide-spread adoption of mutation testing is hampered because any non-trivial program results in huge numbers of mutants, many of which are either trivial or...
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