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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Christoph Matthies, Hasso-Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany; Thomas Kowark, Hasso Plattner Institute; Matthias Uflacker, Hasso Plattner Institute for IT Systems Engineering

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consequence, educators have includedpractical projects in their software development course designs, recognizing the need tolearn about the human (i.e. cognitive and social) aspects of software engineering.9 Thesepractical projects are able to complement lectures and teach a different set of skills. Kroppand Meier11 introduced the Agile Competence Pyramid model, differentiating various levelsof these agile skills and rating them in importance. Agile values are considered to be mostimportant in their model by being on the top of the pyramid. However, the authors notethat this level of the model “is mostly completely neglected” in current course programs.In order to address this issue in an integrated approach, we have developed the softwareengineering

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Concurrent Virtual Sessions

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Nailya Sh. Valeyeva, Kazan National Research Technological University; Roman V. Kupriyanov, Kazan National Research Technological University; Elvira R. Valeyeva, Kazan National Research Technological University

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to perform professionalactivities; the ability to plan, organize, and supervise the work of subordinates; makemanagerial decisions. Despite the existing difficulties in the process of adopting a competence-based approach inthe Russian Education System12, changes in the traditional educational paradigm and arevision of the content of education continue. One of the challenges in the process is to designthe fundamentally new activity-focused techniques aimed at developing these competences. As an example, we present the experience of Kazan National Research TechnologicalUniversity (KNRTU), where the "Workforce Psychology" course has been a part of theundergraduate engineering curriculum for several years now. Over 2,500 KNRTU