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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Wolf-Dieter Otte; Anthony Crain

for a number of years. In these classes, students were “learning bydoing” in a semi-professional environment.Software engineering is concerned with creating and maintaining software applications byapplying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, engineering,application domains, and other fields. In other words, Software Engineering encompasses “hardskills” that pertain to Computer Science, application domain(s) and process knowledge as well as“soft skills”, like thinking conceptually, attending to detail, working in a team, leading a team,etc. Unlike hard skills, soft skills are discipline-neutral.This paper reflects on experiences the author made with optimizing the composition of projectteams. Optimization of

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Thomas N. Duening; Jeffrey R. Goss

our innovation training appreciate the value of what they are being taught, and thus aremore attentive and more likely actually to employ some of the ideas in the workplace.The model is also attractive to attendees in that it provides a sense of the careerDuening & Goss 13 March 2008American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Divisionenhancing potential of the non-technical elements of the training they receive. Mostparticipants that we’ve worked with to date have not received any formal management orleadership training. Thus, many of the “soft skill” concepts they are exposed to as part oftheir formal innovation curriculum may seem