Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment in SE Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nan Niu, Mississippi State University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University; Kui Xie, Mississippi State University; Chris Smith, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

, “Component Reuse in Software Engineering”19, which couldbe accessed online, was optional. We relied on a series of research papers as the core readingsfor the course, which provided us with a better overview of recent research in software reuse.Our reuse course was designed to be a seminar course, not a pure lecturing course, at the outset.The active learning and cooperative learning strategies were implemented as follows.¾ ORIENTATION AND MOTIVATIONThe students could be active learners only if they were motivated and found the subject matterinteresting and challenging. The first two classes of the semester were thus devoted to motivatingthe students. In particular, the importance of software reuse was emphasized. In addition to thecommonly cited

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vignesh Subbian, University of Cincinnati; Nan Niu, University of Cincinnati; Carla C. Purdy, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

and how to measure the quality of software and the development process itself (a, e)• To comprehend the software testing and quality assurance processes for both traditional and distributed projects (a, g)• To apply testing and quality assurance concepts to small-scale software projects (a, c, e, g, k)• To comprehend formal verification methods (a, e) The course was designed to include in-class learning through group problem-solving andtraditional lectures, out-of-class learning through online lectures and/or research literaturereading for selected topics, and a semester-long team project focused on application of testingtechniques as well as performing QA activities. Additionally, graduate students were required tocomplete a