Conference Session

New Trends in Computing and Information Technology Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanya Stanko P.E., Innopolis University; Oksana Zhirosh, Unium

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

classes outside school, thus demonstrating special interest inIT, and reported their wish to pursue a degree in IT in future. A supplementary educationcompany Unium provided this data. The results show consistent replies among the groupsthat participated in the online survey and some discrepancy with the feedback fromstakeholders interviewed in the previous study, namely top management stakeholders,who placed a stronger emphasis on disciplinary knowledge, team work andcommunication skills, than did employers, students and high-school pupils respondents.The results of this study will be used to educate students about the expectations of theemployers regarding their competencies, to tailor the university courses, and toimplement soft-skills

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Chastine, Southern Polytechnic State University (ENG); Charles Richard Cole, Southern Polytechnic State University; Christopher Welty, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

investigation in the next academic year.Learning Outcomes In searching for the overlap in the learning outcomes for Archi-Gaming, the instructorsbegan with a comparison of syllabi for the Computer Game Design and Development Capstonecourse, CGDD 4814 and the Architectural Thesis course, ARCH 5999T. It was quickly apparentthat the courses, while sharing design principles, were not going to overlap in the conventionalsense of the fulfillment of learning outcomes. In fact, the computer gaming design Capstonecourse states in the syllabus in the way of advice to the students, “Your job is not to design art.Your job is to develop things - especially code.” On the architectural side of the collaborative