Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session II

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter W. Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

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by requiring students to take an existing security course from another program (i.e.Computer Science, MIS, etc.). It could be accomplished by adding a new course to the curriculumspecifically to address security. With any of these methods, however, it should be visible to the publichow the program integrated security through catalog entries.Many factors potentially would impact this decision. In some cases, there are several shared courseswith an associated computer science program. The CAC ABET criteria for Computer Science was revisedin 2019 [14] to specifically call out the that the curriculum must include “Principles and practices forsecure computing.” In these cases, a single shared course for both software engineers and computerscience

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanos Matsumoto, Olin College of Engineering

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, 11]. A significant fraction of asoftware project’s budget can go towards code quality [12], and the need for better softwareengineering practices is becoming important in STEM at large [13]. As introductory computingcourses serve an increasingly broad range of students, disciplines, and applications, and thesetraditional metrics may not provide sufficient insight into what is best for students’ learning.Teaching at a small engineering college with no formal computer science program and a heavilyproject-based curriculum, we are especially aware of the limitations of traditional metrics oftenused to evaluate first courses in programming and computer science. As we explain later in thispaper, our first course in computing, which we dub Software

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Milkowki, Seattle University

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regions of the country.Graduate certificate programs in CS have gained popularity with non-STEM bachelor’s degreestudents. Many of these students go on to pursue an MS CS degree. Of the students entering theMS program from the certificate program, up to 60% have non-STEM undergraduate majors.The university’s objective to increase graduate enrollment has driven the CS department to offermore courses to meet the educational needs of this population.Researchers sought to determine whether a new robotics programming course could assist non-STEM undergraduate majors pursuing a graduate CS degree and underrepresented populations intransitioning to CS. The course development aimed to integrate more inclusive pedagogicalpractices. This paper presents the

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Roy Thackeray, Utah Valley University ; Susan L. Thackeray, Utah Valley University

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Paper ID #37034A Novel Interdepartmental Approach to Teach Cross-FunctionalCollaboration in Software EngineeringDr. Lynn Roy Thackeray, Utah Valley University I hold a doctorate degree from Northeastern University in technical curriculum development, teaching and leadership. The focus of my research was on leadership, the learning sciences in the Science, Technol- ogy, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. The title of my dissertation is Women in Computer Science Phenomenological Analysis that explores common factors that contribute to women’s selection and per- sistence in Computer Science as an academic major. My

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session II

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elise Deitrick, Codio; Joshua Ball, Codio; Megan McHugh, Codio

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newinsights into how to effectively disseminate research results to increase the likelihood that theassociated teaching interventions are adopted.IntroductionComputing education research constantly develops more efficient, effective, and inclusiveteaching pedagogies, curriculums, and tools. With all of this research, Ni and colleagues notedthat for this effort to “have real impact on teaching practices, we eventually need computinginstructors to adopt those innovations and integrate them into their own classrooms” [1, p. 544].Recent efforts, such as the Evidence-Based Teaching Practices in CS SIGCSE Workshop [2],have tried to bridge this gap between published innovations and their adoption in the classroom.Morrison et al. [2] conducted a workshop

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce R. Maxim, University of Michigan, Dearborn; Jeffrey Jonathan Yackley, University of Michigan, Flint

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software product is likethat used to specify any other type of software product. However, unlike most software products,games have an entertainment dimension. People play computer games because games are fun[6].The authors believe that the capstone design course should not be the only opportunity forstudents to manage complex software development projects. This suggests the use of othercourses in the curriculum such as a game design course as a means of providing additionalsoftware engineering experiences. This paper describes the authors’ experiences revising andemploying active learning materials to teach software engineering content in a sequence of twogame design courses offered in both face-to-face and asynchronous online modalities during