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Software Engineering Constituent Committee Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heidi J. C. Ellis, Western New England University; Gregory W Hislop, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Sarah Monisha Pulimood, The College of New Jersey; Becka Morgan, Western Oregon University; Ben Coleman, Moravian College

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student motivation to pursuecomputing careers and an increase in software engineering knowledge1, 26. In fact, involvementin HFOSS is increasingly being utilized as a way to educate software engineering students and Page 26.1379.3there are a growing number of faculty members who are involving students in HFOSS projects(foss2serve.org).This paper expands on an earlier effort1 to report on a multi-institutional study on the impact ofstudent participation in HFOSS.2. The InstitutionsTable 1 below outlines the four institutions involved in the study. These institutions are a mix ofpublic and private institutions and are small to medium in size. The

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara Victoria Bernal, Kennesaw State University, Marietta; Jeffrey Chastine, Southern Polytechnic State University

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. Page 26.1387.5 2. To what extent did participation in the Software Architecture Course affect the following? (Please use numbers 1 to 5 where 1=decreased greatly, 2=decreased somewhat, 3=had no effect, 4=increased somewhat, 5=increased greatly.) 3.9 4 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 2a.  Your clarity regarding academic goals 2b. Your clarity regarding career goals 2c. Identification of personal strengths related to academic subject 2d. Identification of personal weaknesses related to academic subject 2e. Identification of personal strengths related to workplace

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan Budny P.E., University of Pittsburgh; Elizabeth E. Vidal, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín

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. Budny can be reached at the University of Pittsburgh, Freshman Engineering, 126 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261; 412-624-6474. [budny@pitt.edu]Mrs. Elizabeth E. Vidal, Universidad Nacional de San Agust´ın c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Adding “Professional Awareness” to the Software Engineering CurriculumAbstract - This paper presents a proposal to integrate the learning skills and professionalawareness in an engineering education course for the Professional School of SoftwareEngineering at the National University of San Augustine, Arequipa - Peru. The knownproblems of writing and oral communication in technical careers from other engineeringprograms are outlined. Engineering

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 3

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Linda M Laird, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Systems & Enterprises); Nicholas S Bowen, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Engineering with Cyber-Physical Systems. He recently retired from IBM after a 31-year career. He held a diverse set of leadership positions across product development (both hardware and software), supply chain and manufacturing, sales operations, research, corporate strategy, leading large teams, and talent development. Nick has led and contributed to many critical projects including saving the mainframe business, taking AIX/Power to the #1 UNIX position, establishing Linux servers in the enterprise market, and was on the team that built the first Bladed architecture for the general purpose x86 market. Nick received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, an M.S

Conference Session

Software Engineering Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Alexandria Spradlin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Thomas Rogers Bassa, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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, and they learned technical and professional knowledge that they would not believe would be available to them through their high school education. • They thought that the interaction with the customer was very good, but they complained about the changes to the requirement by the customer (this was actually designed into the experience by the PI). • They now have a better understanding of what it takes to work on a complex project and be part of a big team. • They now have a better understanding of what potential career opportunities exist, if they purse a computing degree. • Most of the students thought that they underestimate the complexity of the project, but as they proceed