USING A MULTIDISICPLINARY RESEARCH PROJECT TO STRENGTHEN LEARNING IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

It is our premise that a single experience, even in an in-depth project based course, is not adequate for students to transfer all required software engineering knowledge and skills to other situations. The project we described allows us to instill an engineering attitude in the curriculum and the a...

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Published inProceedings of the International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS) p. 1
Main Authors Lawrence-Fowler, Wendy A, Grabowski, Laura M, Fowler, Richard H
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Athens The Steering Committee of The World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing (WorldComp) 01.01.2013
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Summary:It is our premise that a single experience, even in an in-depth project based course, is not adequate for students to transfer all required software engineering knowledge and skills to other situations. The project we described allows us to instill an engineering attitude in the curriculum and the academic computing environment. Through flexibility and responsiveness to change, this approach prepares students to adapt to rapid change in the field by teaching enduring principles in the context of current practice. Exposing computer science students to the convergence of multiple disciplines strengthens a student's ability to manipulate and automate different levels of abstraction simultaneously and develop new conceptual frameworks to address current and future challenges in hardware and software engineering. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]