A Brief Guide to Researching and Writing for CSEE&T

Book Review: 'Teaching and Researching Writing (3rd Edition)'

Writing has an overarching significance in our lives. We experience this significance in our personal, professional and social activities. Much of who we are and who we wish to become in our social life, in the professional community we belong to and even in the privacy of our individual life is the outcome of what we write and how we write. We are often judged and evaluated by our control of i...

Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge Diffusion and Experimentation Strategy

A Proposed Curriculum for an Undergraduate Software Engineering Degree

We have developed a curriculum for a software engineering undergraduate degree. We used the medical school clinical model to guide our design as it successfully combines both knowledge and practice components. Through rotations, our curriculum will provide graduates with both an advanced knowledge of software engineering concepts and practical skills that have been honed in a realistic setting....

SWEBOK: Adjustments for Education

Workshop Summary The workshop will present a survey of the current uses of the trial version of the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) guide in education. From this survey and from the discussions in other workshops, the participants will be asked to work on the appropriate ways to gather more information from the users, and on how to modify the guide in order for it to play its ro...

Personal Quality Management with the Personal Software Process

Software development organizations have a variety of mechanisms at their disposal to help in managing and improving the quality of the products they produce. Quality Assurance organizations, problem reporting systems, software process improvement and peer reviews (to name just a few) are important tools for product quality enhancement. But an often-overlooked piece of the quality puzzle may wel...