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Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session #1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily Marasco, University of Calgary; Milana Hayley Grozic, University of Calgary; The University of British Columbia; Yves Pauchard, University of Calgary; Mohammad Moshirpour, University of Calgary

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, c) to develop lifelong learning capacity through real-world projects andindustry-based training, and d) to train well-rounded software engineers adept in industry-relevant professional skills.This paper will detail the development and implementation of the consultation and redesignprocess, including final curriculum content changes and related delivery recommendations.Consultation ProcessThe taskforce consulted several subcommittees and stakeholder groups to adequately assess thechanging landscape of software engineering. These stakeholder groups included faculty memberswithin the department, faculty members in related departments who may be impacted by thecourse changes, industry advisors, and faculty administrators. Consultation was done

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Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session #3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University

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Paper ID #41836Smart System Projects in Computer Engineering ProgramDr. Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University Afsaneh Minaie is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Utah Valley University. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. all in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests include gender issues in the academic sciDr. Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University Reza Sanati-Mehrizy is a professor of Computer Science Department at Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session #2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ben Arie Tanay, Purdue Engineering Education; Lexy Chiwete Arinze, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Siddhant Sanjay Joshi, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kirsten A. Davis, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James C Davis, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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in the classroom. It is, therefore, important to evaluate students’ perception ofLLMs and possible ways of adapting the computing curriculum to these shifting paradigms.Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore computing students’ experiences andapproaches to using LLMs during a semester-long software engineering project. We investigatedthe impacts of a low-cost intervention. While there have been studies on the use of LLMs in theclassroom, there have been limited works on the use within a project-based course in thecomputing classroom. Our study helps fill this knowledge gap.Design/Method: We collected data from a senior-level software engineering course at PurdueUniversity, a large public R1 university in the Midwest. This course

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynn Roy Thackeray, Utah Valley University ; Susan L. Thackeray, Utah Valley University

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Manager can be considered the Project Owner. Software Engineering Division (SWED)Proposed ProjectPegasus has a successful line of lawnmowers, both electric and gas powered. Currently, marketingresearch is exploring the possibility of expanding their lawnmower line with the addition of anelectric robotic lawnmower. It is envisioned that the lawnmower would be similar to the automatedvacuum cleaners that have become popular recently. The difference is that robotic lawnmowers willbe designed for outdoor instead of indoor use, will learn the layout of the lawn instead of the layoutof the floors of a home, and will cut the grass instead of vacuuming floors.Before the company invests millions in the design and manufacturing of a new product

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Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Milkowki, Seattle University

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theimpact of self-guided final projects. Farah et al. [9] similarly address the needs of non-STEMmajors by presenting work developing computational thinking via a single web application. Thisapproach requires no software installation and minimizes the challenges of working withmultiple applications including integrated design environments, digital education platforms, andfile system management.This paper presents a course building upon student competency in computational thinkingacquired during prerequisite work. These students expand their learning and expertise tointegrate various applications and technology stacks through robotics. Developing the ability tointegrate contributes to both student satisfaction and professional competency.Robot

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session #2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University

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three years of the curriculum in the solution of an embedded design problem.Recently many of our computer engineering students have shown interest in game design andchoosing to design games for their capstone project. This paper presents the details of samplegame projects that the computer engineering students have done in this capstone course.Background InformationUtah Valley University (UVU) is a comprehensive regional university with over 40,000 studentscharged with serving Utah County, which is the second largest county in the state. UVU has adual mission – that of a comprehensive university offering 91bachelor’s degrees and 11 master’sdegrees, and that of a community college offering 65 associate degrees and 44 certificates. Tofill its

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanos Matsumoto, Olin College of Engineering

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SoftDes, and briefly describe our nextsteps in this work.Related WorkSoftDes teaches a variety of topics, some of which overlap with topics traditionally taught in CS1courses. The topic list of SoftDes covers much of those described in literature reviews byMedeiros et al. [2] and Luxton-Reilly et al. [1], as well as that of Hertz’s study on topics coveredin CS1 vs CS2 [4]. We are by no means the first course to cover software engineering topics in anintroductory course: Chen and Hall propose a software engineering project for CS1 whoseprocess resembles that of our projects [19], and our coverage of software testing has some overlapwith many courses reviewed by Scatalon et al. [20]. As we continue to iterate on the list of topicscovered in SoftDes

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session #1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Siddhant Sanjay Joshi, School of Engineering Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Preeti Mukherjee, Purdue University; Kirsten A. Davis, Purdue University; James C Davis, Purdue University

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, USA. The students enrolled in this course arejunior and senior year students from either electrical or computer engineering majors. Asdiscussed, the Fall 2021 students and Spring 2021 students did not receive any instruction onsystems thinking whereas students from Fall 2023 did.For this study, we randomly selected five student team projects from each of the Fall 2021,Spring 2023, and Fall 2023 semesters (total 15 projects) and analyzed their security casedeliverables using the rubrics we developed. Next, we discuss our scoring approach based on therubric we developed for assessing STRIDE and system thinking during threat modeling.Data analysisScoring using the rubric.The first step in the data analysis process was to score the security case