Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bruce R. Maxim, University of Michigan - Dearborn; Thomas Limbaugh, University of Michigan - Dearborn

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Diversity

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Software Engineering Division

materials involved working with software engineering techniques or tools,to facilitate coverage of the topics. Many of the activities implemented in the course have beenused successfully with several groups of students and their evolution benefited from feedbackprovided by the students and faculty.This paper describes the authors’ experiences using active learning materials in an onlinesoftware engineering course. This course was offered to students taking it either synchronously(via online Zoom meetings) or asynchronously (without Zoom class meetings). Soft skills areimportant for engineering professionals and the authors wanted to provide opportunities foronline students to develop these skills on team projects by encouraging asynchronous

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tamaike Brown, State University of New York at Oswego; Bastian Tenbergen, State University of New York at Oswego

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Software Engineering Division

: This is an instant messaging and digital distribution platform that students joined to communicate about assignments and project milestones. Students found this platform easier to communicate because of the quickness in message delivery rather than using email. D. Group Work in a HyFlex Environment Several studies have pointed to the benefits of learning in groups. Group work promotesstudents’ collaboration, increase students’ achievements, increase students’ persistence, it assistsstudents in acquiring soft skills such as communication development and teamwork skills,promotes cognitive thinking and provides feedback from peers that leads to learning [5]. Like inprevious years, the SQA course implements group

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stefan Christov, Quinnipiac University; James Walker, Michigan Technological University; Mark Hoffman, Quinnipiac University

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Software Engineering Division

withwaterfall-like processes, the support for agile processes, which are widely used nowadays, waslimited. Also, using computer simulation often makes it difficult to exercise certain SPM skills,particularly soft skills and human aspects of managing a team. The approaches reported in [18]and [19] focus on practicing SPM skills but outside of a long-term software development project([18] focuses on producing a paper and a presentation; [19] focuses on a game of sortingcandy).Other course collaborations not necessarily related to SPM have been reported. These includestudies of the feasibility of distributing large SE projects across the academic curriculum [20];students from different courses collaborating by taking different roles in a simulated