Soft Skills in Software Engineering Technicians Education

The "Soft" Topics in Software Engineering Education

Engineering educators struggle with “soft” topics – topics which include a social element. Soft engineering topics are distinct from the scientific and mathematical underpinnings of engineering. Students frequently complain when these topics are integrated into engineering curricula. Engineering educators also express concerns that they lack both preparation and ability to teach these topics. S...

Training soft skills with software

Most trainings of communicative behavior focus on fostering the observable speech productive behavior (i.e. speaking). The individual cognitive processes underlying speech receptive behavior (hearing and understanding utterances) thus are often neglected. This is due to the fact that speech receptive behavior cannot be accessed in the midst of a conversation and that its training is very time-c...

Software Reverse Engineering Education

Teams in Software Engineering Education

1 Judith E. Sims-Knight, Psychology Department, U. of Massachusetts Dartmouth, N. Dartmouth, MA 02747, [email protected] 2 Richard L. Upchurch, CIS Department, U. of Massachusetts Dartmouth, N. Dartmouth, MA 02747, [email protected] 3 T. A. Powers, Psychology Department, U. of Massachusetts Dartmouth, N. Dartmouth, MA 02747, [email protected] 4 Sara Haden, Psychology Department, U. of ...

Professional software Engineering Education

This paper is a speculation about how universities might organize new lines of business in software engineering professional education. Professional education enables practicing professionals to achieve defined levels of competence and to be certified according to standards in their professions. This kind of education is offered at very few universities. This paper proposes a conceptual framewo...