Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Projects

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Gary, Arizona State University; Harry Koehnemann, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

. Theinstructor wants the students to understand that simply working more on the project is notenough; there will be ramifications on the quality and ability to transition the software intoproduction. The students must make hard decisions – try to reduce scope, reduce qualityexpectations, ask for more resources, or shift deadlines. Can they 1) understand that they mustmake that decision now (without the instructor stepping in) and 2) do they have the data availableto make an informed decision? This is just one many potential contextual problems faculty wanttheir students to face, and want the students not only to apply a technique they have learned, butto reflect on the choice and whether it worked as expected.There are other practical challenges in

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Projects

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Conry, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

unique to each of thesister disciplines on the same campus. We also consider relationships between curricularcontent and the identified body of knowledge as reflected in this set of curricular exemplars. Page 15.1071.2IntroductionThe education of highly qualified software engineers who function effectively in multiple sectorsof our society and our economy is critical to the future of modern society. Evidence of this isfound in multiple sources. US News and World Report reported on December 28, 2009 thatsoftware engineering is among the top 10 careers identified for 2010.1 As is noted in that article,“There is an “app” for everything these days