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Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anna Koufakou, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

first implementation of this courseachieved positive student feedback and performance in the class. Results and lessons learned arealso discussed in the paper.Literature ReviewDespite the importance of Requirements Engineering (RE) in Software Engineering, RE is notemphasized in computing education. In fact, most computer science and software engineeringprograms do not include RE courses and tend to cover this area using a few class periods1,2.Additionally, topics and careers related to RE, and subsequently a related course, are perceivedas uninteresting and not relevant to future career prospects3, 4. This is described very well by(Lethbridge et al.)5 as follows: “Anyone who has tried to teach topics such as ethics, quality, process

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

. She received her M. Ed. and B.S. from Georgia State University (1979, 1981). Prof. Bernal teaches the User-Centered Design, Ethics, and Software Engineering courses at SPSU. The areas of Software Engineering, User-Centered Design and Software Engineering are the focus endeavors. She is a co-founder of the SPSU Usability Research Lab (ULAB) and is directly involved in corporate-sponsor ULAB projects. She has given numerous papers, tutorials and presentations locally and internationally on User-Centered Design, Usability and Software Engineering topics. Barbara is engaged in educational support through her company Software Education and Support (SES). She does specialized software de- velopment and evaluation as a