Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James R Vallino, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Bryan Basham, Software Alchemy (with RIT)

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Division

Curriculum Guidelines [2], the task of coveringsoftware engineering is still daunting. These guidelines define 18 Knowledge Areas three ofwhich, Software Development Fundamentals (SDF), Software Engineering (SE), and SocialIssues and Professional Practice (SP), contain knowledge that falls into the software engineeringrealm. Guideline comments identify the SE and SP knowledge areas as specific curricula areaswhere teamwork and communication soft skills will be learned and practiced. The SoftwareEngineering Knowledge Area, which at 14 pages is the longest non-cross-cutting KnowledgeArea in Computer Science 2013, identifies 60 Core topics with 69 Learning Outcomes, and 54Elective topics with 56 Learning Outcomes. It will be a difficult syllabus design