Introduction

FASE (pronounced like "phase"), the Forum for Advancing Software engineering Education, was started in 1991 by members of the software engineering education community in order to have a electronic forum for the dissemination and discussion of events related to software engineering education.  The original acronym for FASE was Forum for Academic Software Engineering, but was subsequently changed so that it was more inclusive to industrial and government training issues (which led to a co-editor in that area).   In recent years, FASE has also covered a wide variety of professional issues (e.g. licensing, certification, ethics, body of knowledge, and accreditation), which has also led to the addition of yet another co-editor for this area.

FASE is an independently-published newsletter, not affiliated with ACM, IEEE-CS or any other organization.  So far, 149 issues have been published.  Since August 1997, FASE has been published monthly, and is released on the 15th of each month.

As of September 2002, FASE has 887 subscribers in over 50 countries.

Current Issue: Volume 12, Number 8, August 2002

• Letter from the New Managing Editor
• On to a Different FASE!
• Articles
• CCSE - SEEK Development and Review by Tom Hilburn
• U.S. Undergraduate Software Engineering Programs by Tom Hilburn
• Calls for Participation
• ICSE'03 Experience Reports
• ICSE'03 Tutorial Proposals
• Workshop on SWEBOK and the Software Engineering Education BOK
• Contact and General Information about FASE

To join the FASE mailing list, write to <lyris@lyris.acs.ttu.edu> and, in the text of your message (not the subject line), write: subscribe fase <Your Name>.  So for instance, if your name is Jane Smith, write

   subscribe fase Jane Smith

Subscriptions can also be maintained through the Web via http://lyris.acs.ttu.edu.  From there, click on "TTU Faculty Mailing Lists", (not "TTU Departmental Mailing Lists"), and then either "fase" or "fase-talk" (see below), depending on which list you desire.  (Note:  For those people who were members of fase or fase-talk before February 15, 2000, you will need to request Lyris to email your randomly-generated password to you.)

FASE-TALK Discussion List

There is also a FASE-TALK discussion list.  To join the FASE-TALK list, write to <lyris@lyris.acs.ttu.edu> and, in the text of your message (not the subject line), write: subscribe fase-talk <Your Name>.  For an archive of fase-talk mail, click here.
 

FASE Archives

For a link to a complete set of issues to date, with a Table of Contents for each issue in chronological order, click here; for the Table of Contents in reverse chronological order, click here.  The FASE ftp site is no long being maintained; however, to download a WinZip file which contains the ASCII version of all issues to date, click here.

Article and Faculty Ad Submission Guidelines

Send newsletter articles to one of the editors, preferably by category: Articles pertinent to academic education to Tom Hilburn <hilburn@erau.edu>; corporate and government training to David Carter <dacarter@bayou.com>; professional issues, faculty ads, and all other categories, to Don Bagert <Don.Bagert@ttu.edu>.  If the article is for a FASE topic where there is a guest editor, the submission should instead be to that person according to the scheduled provided.  Items must be submitted by the 8th of the month in order to be considered for inclusion in that month's issue.  Also, please see the submission guidelines immediately below.

FASE submission format guidelines:  All submissions must be in ASCII format, and contain no more than 70 characters per line (71 including trailing blanks and the new line character).  This 70-character/line format must be viewable in a text editor such as Microsoft Notepad WITHOUT using a "word wrap" facility.  All characters (outside of the newline) should in the ASCII code range from 32 to 126 (i.e. "printable" in DOS text mode).

All articles contain the viewpoints of their respective authors, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the FASE staff.
 

The FASE Staff

Susan A. Mengel -- Managing Editor
Department of Computer Science
Texas Tech University
8th and Boston
Lubbock TX 79409-3104
Phone: 806-742-1189
Fax:   806-742-3519
Email: mengel@ttu.edu
URL:   http://www.cs.ttu.edu/people/faculty/mengel.html

Tom Hilburn -- Academic Editor
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Department of Computing and Mathematics
Daytona Beach FL 32114 USA
Phone:    386-226-6889
Fax:         386-226-6678
Email:     hilburn@erau.edu
URL:      http://faculty.erau.edu/hilburn/

David Carter -- Corporate/Government Editor
807 Hwy 1204 #B-2
Pineville LA 71360
Phone: 318-641-0824
Email: dacarter@bayou.com

Don Bagert, P.E. -- Professional Issues Editor
Director of Software Engineering
Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering
CM 97
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
5500 Wabash Avenue
Terre Haute IN 47803-3999 USA
Phone: 812-877-8327
Fax: 812-872-6060
Email: Don.Bagert@rose-hulman.edu
URL: http://www.cs.rose-hulman.edu/people/bagert.html

Laurie Werth -- Advisory Committee
Taylor Hall 2.124
University of Texas at Austin
Austin TX 78712 USA
Phone: 512-471-9535
Fax:   512-471-8885
Email: lwerth@cs.utexas.edu

Nancy Mead -- Advisory Committee
Software Engineering Institute
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
Phone: 412-268-5756
Fax:   412-268-5758
Email: nrm@sei.cmu.edu