TY - GEN
T1 - A project spine for software engineering curricular design
AU - Gary, Kevin
AU - Lindquist, Timothy
AU - Bansal, Srividya
AU - Ghazarian, Arbi
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Software engineering education is a technologically challenging, rapidly evolving discipline. Like all STEM educators, software engineering educators are bombarded with a constant stream of new tools and techniques (MOOCs! Active learning! Inverted classrooms!) while under national pressure to produce outstanding STEM graduates. Software engineering educators are also pressured on the discipline side; a constant evolution of technology coupled with a still emerging engineering discipline. As a handson engineering discipline, where engineers not only design but also construct the technology, guidance on the adoption of project-centric curricula is needed. This paper focuses on vertical integration of project experiences in undergraduate software engineering degree programs or course sequences. The Software Enterprise, now in its 9th year, has grown from an upper-division course sequence to a vertical integration program feature. The Software Enterprise is presented as an implementation of a project spine curricular pattern, and a plan for maturing this model is given.
AB - Software engineering education is a technologically challenging, rapidly evolving discipline. Like all STEM educators, software engineering educators are bombarded with a constant stream of new tools and techniques (MOOCs! Active learning! Inverted classrooms!) while under national pressure to produce outstanding STEM graduates. Software engineering educators are also pressured on the discipline side; a constant evolution of technology coupled with a still emerging engineering discipline. As a handson engineering discipline, where engineers not only design but also construct the technology, guidance on the adoption of project-centric curricula is needed. This paper focuses on vertical integration of project experiences in undergraduate software engineering degree programs or course sequences. The Software Enterprise, now in its 9th year, has grown from an upper-division course sequence to a vertical integration program feature. The Software Enterprise is presented as an implementation of a project spine curricular pattern, and a plan for maturing this model is given.
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U2 - 10.1109/CSEET.2013.6595265
DO - 10.1109/CSEET.2013.6595265
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84884959448
SN - 9781467351409
T3 - Software Engineering Education Conference, Proceedings
SP - 299
EP - 303
BT - 2013 26th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2013 - Proceedings
T2 - 2013 26th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2013
Y2 - 19 May 2013 through 21 May 2013
ER -