Conference Session

Software Engineering Pedagogical Approaches

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Feras A. Batarseh, University of Central Florida

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

to be planned and structured tomatch the background of the students who are taking the class. Nowadays, students frommajors other than Computer Engineering and Computer Science often are required toregister for software-related classes, usually the introductory ones. Additionally, newfields are emerging between life sciences and software engineering, such asbioinformatics and computational chemistry, thus, an increasing need to address suchfields. The model presented in this paper is called the Human Physiology LifecycleModel for Learning (HPML). It is targeted towards students in the fields of biological,medical and life sciences (this includes biology, chemistry, medical studies, nursing,pharmacy, bioinformatics and public health majors

Conference Session

Software Engineering Outreach: Industry, K-12

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

W Eric Wong, University of Texas, Dallas

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

used in industry.One of the challenges to teach a capstone project course is to provide students with sufficient motivationand get them invested in the outcome. To achieve this, Horgan, Smith and Thomas in their 2005 ACEpaper5 suggested a problem domain that accurately reflects the concerns and priorities of a real industryclient. They also proposed a Real World Software Process with four different phases: (1) Phase Zero –developing a project proposal which addresses the client‟s needs and clearly identifies goals and successcriteria, (2) Phase One – requirements gathering, release planning, and the initial development, (3) PhaseN – the generic, repeatable cycle in which the functionality of the system is incrementally extended andthe

Conference Session

Software Engineering Pedagogical Approaches

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna F. DeFranco, Pennsylvania State University; Colin J. Neill, Pennsylvania State University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

takes into consideration the cognitive knowledgeand skills needed at each stage of the process. The integrated model, called the Dual CommonModel (DCM), identifies for each problem solving/program development task, the specificcognitive techniques required to accomplish that task. A brief overview of the problem solvingtasks is as follows:1. Formulating the problem: This stage leads to an organized representation of all relevantproblem information: the goal, givens, unknowns, conditions and problem constraints.2. Planning the solution: During this stage, the user identifies and evaluates or assessesalternative possible solutions, and also partitions the problem by refining the overall problemgoal into sub-goals.3. Designing the solution: This

Conference Session

Software Engineering Outreach: Industry, K-12

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clare McInerney, Lero - the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre; Mike Hinchey, Lero-the Irish Software Engineering Reseaach Centre

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

the international and globalnature of the Scratch project.The Scratch competition complements the Teaching Materials/Curriculum. In module ten, entitled“Scratch Project”, students create a concrete piece of work at the end of their in-class course. Inthis module, students must plan and design their project and, if working in teams, they must assignindividual tasks. Students are encouraged to submit this final project for the Scratch competition.According to teachers we work with, many students spend time working on their Scratch projectsfor the competition outside school hours. This encourages an independent interest in computingand “I’m doing it because I want to” rather than “I’m doing it because the teacher says I must”attitude. By the

Conference Session

Software Engineering Outreach: Industry, K-12

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

software products (MEDEE-S/ENV, EFOM/ENV and DBA-VOID) which are in use in 26 Asian and seven Eu- ropean countries by both governmental and non-governmental organizations. Acharya has a M.Eng. in Computer Technology and a D.Eng. in Computer Science and Information Management with a concen- tration in knowledge discovery, both from the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. His teaching involvement and research interest are in the areas of Software Engineering and Development (Verification & Validation) and Enterprise Resource Planning. He also has interest in Learning Objectives based Edu- cation Material Design and Development. Acharya is a co-author of ”Discrete Mathematics Applications for Information

Conference Session

Software Engineering Outreach: Industry, K-12

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Thomas B Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Richard E Fairley, Software and Systems Engineering Associates (S2EA)

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Page 23.1074.6acquire in-depth knowledge in an area of concentration. GRCSE includes two exampleconcentrations: Systems Engineering Management (SEM) and Systems Design and Development(SDD).The CorBoK was developed so that it comprises approximately 50% of the curriculum. Forpurposes of planning curriculum content, GRCSE estimates 480 hours as the total number ofcontact hours needed for a SE master’s program. Consequently, using the 50% guideline,CorBoK instruction is presumed to take approximately 240 contact hours. Table 2 provides anexample:• Approximate contact hours and percentages of the 50% devoted to CorBoK are provided for each part.• Since Part 3 represents a significant portion of the 50%, distribution by knowledge area is

Conference Session

Software Engineering Pedagogical Approaches

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon A Preston, Southern Polytechnic State University; Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

three energy software products (MEDEE-S/ENV, EFOM/ENV and DBA-VOID) which are in use in 26 Asian and 7 European countries by both governmental and non-governmental organizations. Acharya has a M.Eng. in Com- puter Technology and a D.Eng. in Computer Science and Information Management with a concentration in knowledge discovery, both from the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. His teaching involve- ment and research interest are in the areas of Software Engineering and Development (Verification & Validation) and Enterprise Resource Planning. He also has interest in Learning Objectives based Educa- tion Material Design and Development. Acharya is a co-author of ”Discrete Mathematics Applications for

Conference Session

Software Engineering Pedagogical Approaches

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John C. Georgas, Northern Arizona University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

.” Another studentrecommended using a medium other than sticky notes for information exchange and stated,“perhaps find a better method than sticky notes, throw balls with numbers?” We plan to re-visitthe design of our game and our choice of materials in light of these suggestions, though movingaway from sticky nodes—a medium that is useful for quickly generating representations ofcustom messages—would reduce the game’s expressiveness. The second trend is that studentswere disappointed at some of the overhead involved in the initial setup of each style-specificgame; one suggested that participants be “given specific instructions ahead of time” and anotherthat we should “decide participants before starting the activity; this would decrease down time