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ERIC Number: EJ828282
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Jun
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0304-3797
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Software Engineering Education: Some Important Dimensions
Mishra, Alok; Cagiltay, Nergiz Ercil; Kilic, Ozkan
European Journal of Engineering Education, v32 n3 p349-361 Jun 2007
Software engineering education has been emerging as an independent and mature discipline. Accordingly, various studies are being done to provide guidelines for curriculum design. The main focus of these guidelines is around core and foundation courses. This paper summarizes the current problems of software engineering education programs. It also proposes some important dimensions as integral parts of software engineering education: interdisciplinary skills, practice experience, communication, skills on continuing education and professionalism. In the current guidelines and studies these dimensions are not addressed specifically. Although there could be other dimensions to be considered in software engineering education, we believe that the proposed ones are very crucial as software engineering is evolving more rapidly than any other engineering discipline. This study also provides a survey of some major universities' undergraduate software engineering programs to evaluate these dimensions. (Contains 3 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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