Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Course Management

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Scott Hawker, Rochester Institute of Technology; Ian Webber, Rochester Institute of Technology; Michael Starenko, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeremiah Parry-Hill, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

. Page 13.992.2Further, by organizing the content and presenting it in a way that reflects the structure ofknowledge in the software engineering discipline, we expect that the students will more readilygrasp discipline-specific concepts and concept relationships, thereby better organizing andintegrating their learning from course to course over their academic and professional career. Theintended result is a repository of readily accessible and understandable learning content and alocation (a “studio”) for team collaboration.We have implemented a testbed, called Knowdio (a contraction of Knowledge Studio), thatimplements a portion of our system vision. The testbed allows experimental assessment of theeffectiveness of this learning and knowledge

Conference Session

Software Engineering Course Content

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

. Page 13.555.10 • Feedback from Students/Alumni: Student feedbacks through course assessment and course reflection have been crucial to the ongoing enhancement of this course. End-of- term student course and instruction assessment were conducted using Student Instructional Report II (SIR II). Table 3 depicts the mean score for selected assessment items for spring 2006 and spring 2007 terms. Table 3: Selected Assessment Items from SIR II Report Item Spring Spring Comparative Mean for 4 2006 2007 Year Institutions Course Organization and Planning 4.31 4.34

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Course Management

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arthur Pyster, Stevens Institute of Technology; Devanandham Henry, Stevens Institute of Technology; Richard Turner, Stevens Institute of Technology; Kahina Lasfer, Stevens Institute of Technology; Lawrence Bernstein, Stevens Institute of Technology; Kristen Baldwin, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, Logistics)

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

reference curriculum for graduateeducation in SwE4. A fresh look at a graduate reference curriculum is in order considering thereliance of the world economy on the quality of senior SwE professionals.The iSSEc (integrated Software and Systems Engineering curriculum) project is iterativelydeveloping a graduate SwE reference curriculum (GSwERC) that reflects new understandings inhow to build software, how software engineering depends on systems engineering, and howsoftware engineering education is influenced by individual application domains, such astelecommunications and defense systems. At this point, at least three curriculum iterations areplanned – GSwERC v0.25, GSwERC v0.5, and GSwERC v1.0. The first iteration is completeand the second is being