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SE Curriculum and Course Management

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Clifton, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

and plans, broken down by phase and/oractivity. It allows time logging, both manually and via punch-in/punch-out. It allows a studentto retrieve files in a group’s repository, which is useful when the student does not have access tothe version control client. It also has some limited reporting capabilities, such as viewing groupsummary statistics broken down by individual.BackgroundThe University of Wisconsin – Platteville has had a BS-SE degree since fall 1999. All of oursoftware engineering courses have a group project component and many require individualprojects. For most of the courses, students are required to log time spent on the project, brokendown by phase and/or activity. For many courses, students are required to provide time

Conference Session

Software Engineering Course Content

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Maxim, University of Michigan - Dearborn

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

semesters. These coursesare required of all software engineering majors. Most students taking these courses do not createserious games as part of their capstone design projects. The educational outcomes for thecapstone design experience appear in Table 1.Students enroll in CIS 4961 after they complete all required software engineering courses. Thecapstone projects generally require about 500 hours of student effort to complete. The majoractivities in CIS 4961 are requirements gathering and project planning (including riskmanagement and quality assurance efforts). The major activities in CIS 4962 are product design,implementation, and testing. Serious game projects usually make use of a rapid prototyping

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Course Management

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Scott Hawker, Rochester Institute of Technology; Ian Webber, Rochester Institute of Technology; Michael Starenko, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeremiah Parry-Hill, Rochester Institute of Technology

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management system. This paper provides abackground of our vision and then presents our current system implementation, our initialexperiments and results, and planned next steps.Background - ProblemStudents and instructors are challenged to manage course content and integrate it across thecurriculum. For example, a student might take five courses a semester over eight semesters – 40courses. Especially for the courses in the student’s major, the content of these courses are relatedto content of previous courses, building on and integrating prior learning. Further, within a givencourse, there are numerous lectures, exercises, exams, and projects that interrelate. When astudent gets to their senior capstone design experience, they need to draw upon all

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Course Management

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Clifton, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Rob Hasker, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Mike Rowe, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

are hoping for better results in spring 2008, we will not know until then whether ornot other changes will be necessary.Besides changes to the curriculum, the assessment reports also recommend changes to theAssessment Plan itself. The Assessment Plan is modified almost every semester. As is typicalfor many software engineering process documents, revision changes are listed within thedocument itself.The ShoestringFaculty at other institutions have expressed a concern that outcomes-based assessment asmandated by ABET could require an inordinate amount of work. One colleague compared it tomonitoring the minutiae of every plant in a back-yard tomato patch: stem lengths, waterconsumption, tomato sizes, etc.1 So the question is not whether outcomes

Conference Session

Software Engineering Course Content

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

European countries by both governmental and non-governmental organizations. Acharya has a M.Eng. in Computer Technology and a D.Eng. in Computer Science and Information Management with a concentration in knowledge discovery, both from the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. His teaching involvement and research interest are in the area of Software Engineering and Development (Verification & Validation), Data Mining, Data Warehousing, Neural Networks and Enterprise Resource Planning. He also has interest in Learning Objectives based Education Material Design and Development. Acharya is a co-author of “Discrete Mathematics Applications for Information Systems Professionals- 2nd Ed

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Course Management

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arthur Pyster, Stevens Institute of Technology; Devanandham Henry, Stevens Institute of Technology; Richard Turner, Stevens Institute of Technology; Kahina Lasfer, Stevens Institute of Technology; Lawrence Bernstein, Stevens Institute of Technology; Kristen Baldwin, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, Logistics)

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Software in the IEEE Computer Society DVP program.Kristen Baldwin, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, Logistics) Kristen Baldwin is the Acting Director, Systems and Software Engineering in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology (DUSD(A&T)). She is the DoD focal point for all policy, practice, and procedural matters relating to systems and software engineering. Ms. Baldwin was named Deputy Director for Software Engineering and System Assurance in February 2007. Prior to OSD, Ms. Baldwin served as a Science and Technology Advisor in the Army’s Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, and at