Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment in SE Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nan Niu, Mississippi State University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University; Kui Xie, Mississippi State University; Chris Smith, Mississippi State University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

. Page 22.1254.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Reuse a “Software Reuse” CourseAbstractSoftware reuse is the use of existing software artifacts and knowledge to construct new software.Systematic reuse has always been a major goal in software engineering since it promises largegains in productivity, quality, and time-to-market reduction. One of the main reasons softwarereuse has not been systematically practiced is due to the lack of education: In a survey collectedfrom 113 respondents from 29 organizations, primarily in the US, only 13% said they hadlearned about reuse in school1.This paper presents the creation of a graduate-level seminar course on software reuse in a

Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment in SE Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet E. Burge, Miami University; Paul V. Anderson, Miami University, Ohio; Michael Carter, North Carolina State University; Gerald C. Gannod, Miami University; Mladen A. Vouk, North Carolina State University

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AC 2011-2041: INTEGRATING COMMUNICATION INSTRUCTION THROUGH-OUT COMPUTER SCIENCE AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CURRIC-ULAJanet E. Burge, Miami University Janet Burge is an Assistant Professor in the Miami University Computer Science and Software Engineer- ing department. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2005) and performed her undergraduate work at Michigan Technological University (1984). Her research in- terests include design rationale, software engineering, AI in design, and knowledge elicitation. She is a co-author (with Jack Carroll, Ray McCall,and Ivan Mistrik) of the book ”Rationale-Based Software En- gineering”. Dr. Burge is a recipient of a NSF CAREER Award for

Conference Session

Software Engineering Projects

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James N. Long, Oregon Institute of Technology; Linda Sue Young, Oregon Institute of Technology

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theory.With this information in hand, a re-structuring of the Junior Project course sequence was started.The idea was to provide the standard software engineering curriculum with a MMORPG gamingtwist. The software engineering activities did not involve virtual worlds, and support for such anenvironment was out of reach of the researchers. The scoring mechanism was, however,relatively easy to emulate and adaptable to standard percentage scale grading. Adaptation wasdone in a sequencing of information introduction and designing point accumulation wherediscovery, trial and error, and continuous feedback on task outcome were the goals. Each stepalong the way involves the following components of MMORPG o farming gold, o buying

Conference Session

Software Engineering Projects

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Thomas B. Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Joseph E. Urban, Texas Tech University; Gregory W. Hislop, Drexel University; Richard Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

, Texas Tech UniversityGregory W Hislop, Drexel UniversityRichard Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach Richard S. Stansbury is an assistant professor of computer science and computer engineering at Embry- Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL. His current research interests include unmanned aircraft, certification issues for unmanned aircraft, mobile robotics, and applied artificial intelligence. At Embry-Riddle, his teaching activities include the capstone senior design course for computer and software engineers. He received his BS and MS degrees in Computer Engineering (2002 and 2004 respectively) and PhD in Computer Science (2007) from the University of Kansas. As a graduate research