Conference Session

Software Engineering Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valentin Razmov, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

studentsreceived from instructors and peers, as well as questions aimed at capturing student perceptionsof what had worked well and what had not.Among the encouraging results are that students almost unanimously report feeling betterprepared for industry careers after taking the course. They also increasingly come out with aheightened appreciation for the value of incremental project development and of many of the“softer” (non-technical, human) issues in engineering. In contrast, the main aspects that ouranalysis identifies as needing further improvement are the choice of course readings, as well as astronger emphasis on quality assurance practices and techniques for dealing with ambiguity –both aspects that students tend to find unfamiliar and unnatural