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Incorporating real projects into a software engineering undergraduate curriculum

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Rafael PrikladnickiAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '19: Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings

Pages 250 - 251

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-Companion.2019.00099

Published: 25 May 2019 Publication History

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Software engineering researchers and practitioners are increasingly more concerned about non-technical issues like user involvement and interaction as a way to improve software development process efficiency. This issue is also present in software engineering education. The IEEE/ACM software engineering guidelines highlights that an undergraduate course in this matter should have a real-world basis. In this paper, we present an undergraduate program that connect students with real-world projects throughout their studies. To evaluate educational results, we performed a survey with 111 students from this software engineering program. The results indicate that students in the end of this program has a much better chance of taking users' desires into consideration instead of focusing on software implementation.

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ICSE '19: Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings

May 2019

369 pages

Conference Chair:
Gunter Mussbacher
McGill University, Canada
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General Chair:
Joanne M. Atlee
University of Waterloo, Canada
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Program Chair:
Tevfik Bultan
University of California, Santa Barbara

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Maly CPerson SSoh L(2021)SE-First: A New Approach to Software Engineering Education2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)10.1109/FIE49875.2021.9637325(1-9)Online publication date: 13-Oct-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/FIE49875.2021.9637325
Johnson WSunderraman RBourgeois A(2020)Teaching strategies in software engineering towards industry interview preparednessProceedings of the 9th Computer Science Education Research Conference10.1145/3442481.3442500(1-11)Online publication date: 19-Oct-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442481.3442500
de Mello ABordin AFinger A(2020)Graduates’ Perceptions of a Software Engineering Undergraduate Program: a view from postgraduation and industryProceedings of the XIX Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality10.1145/3439961.3440006(1-10)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3439961.3440006

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