Forum for Advancing Software engineering EducationForum for Advancing Software engineering Education
Volume 6 Number 8 April 3, 1996
Contents:
Reminder: Early registration deadline for CSEE96 is April 8
Announcing FASE-Talk
Summary: 3rd Int'l Workshop on Software Engineering Education
Minutes of the Spin DC Training Group (Washington DC Area)
LifeLong Learning
Workshop: Making Requirements Measurable
MSc in Software Engineering, University of Teesside
CFP: 10th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training
CFP: Third Int'l Conf on Ethical Issues of IT
Subject: Reminder: Early registration deadline for CSEE96 is April 8
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Subject: Summary: 3rd Int'l Workshop on Software Engineering Education
Dear participant of IWSEE3,
Hope you all returned safely from Berlin!
after the workshop last Saturday (which I really enjoyed), I would like to
make the pleasant and productive spirit last longer than just for a day.
Electronic discussions are certainly appropriate for this. Therefore, I
would like to distribute the electronic list of participants.
Please note that we have not got an e-mail-address for Fabrizio Riguzzi
(University of Bologna, Italy). Hossein Saiedian is included in the list
though he was unable to attend.
When I summarised the presentations and discussions, James Cross asked me
to distribute the summary via e-mail. Here it is. Please note that Tony
Cowling, Pankaj Jalote, John Werth and I will write a summary for the SEN.
- - Methods first, tools second.
Tools cause problems, but students should have that experience.
- - Teaching SE takes time.
If it is done within CS, _all_ teachers must contribute to the SE
education. If not ... Could it really be taught separately?
- - Projects are essential. We need more of them, though it is difficult
to press them into the short period of time we have.
- - Students need to learn some lessons the hard way; but their project
experience should -- eventually -- be positive.
- - Tutoring takes much time. Few of us have sufficient manpower to allow
for intensive tutoring.
- - Real projects have the advantages of real projects.
But toy projects are necessary, too.
- - Modern means of communication will influence the style of teaching,
and the jobs our students will get.
I am looking forward to your feedback, and ideas for the 4th IWSEE next
year at Boston! As long as you wish, I will serve as a coordinator for this
activity.
yours sincerely,
Jochen Ludewig
Inst. f. Informatik, Universitaet Stuttgart
Breitwiesenstr. 20-22, 70565 Stuttgart
Tel. 0711-7816-354, Fax -380
ludewig@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ifi/se/se.html
Subject: Minutes of the Spin DC Training Group (Washington DC Area)
The March meeting celebrated the third anniversary of the group and planned
the fourth year. Dinner will continue to be provided. The meeting time was
moved up to 6:30 PM because most people are waiting around at the office for
the meeting to start. Informal attire is now strongly recommended. Some of
the meetings will be dinner meetings at the Ft. Belvoir Officer's Club.
There will be a mailing to all group members during the summer break. It
will be a foldable reply sheet (pre-addressed). Each member will be asked
if their contact information is current and if they wish to continue to be
on the mailing list.
The following topics were selected for this year:
- planning the first free seminar at DSMC
- training for certification exams
- a presentation by the SEI
- CBT lessons learned
- a video on what it really takes for people to change, followed by a
discussion
- 5 minute madness
The training group is going to start sponsoring FREE informational seminars
at the Defense Systems Management College. Each seminar will have a theme
selected because of the need in this area for that kind of information.
Some topics under consideration include Process Improvement Lessons Learned,
and resources available locally (e.g. networking groups).
Subject: LifeLong Learning
>From Edupage:
GINGRICH URGES TOP-TO-BOTTOM CHANGE OF EDUCATION
Suggesting that the quality of elementary and secondary education is
dragging down the quality of higher education, House of
Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich challenged a group of
university presidents by saying: "None of you would accept from your
suppliers what public education sends you. You would fire them, or
you would sue them, or you would insist on a new standard."
Tinkering won't work, because "the problem you are trapped into is
that you can't change anything unless you change everything." The
Speaker also urged the presidents to sharpen their focus on
"lifetime learning," because of the increasing need for people to
re-educate themselves to accommodate multiple career changes.
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution 19 Mar 96)
This applies to college and professional education. How well are we
(software engineering educators) doing in teaching life-long learning? In
my case, not well. When my institution focusses on teaching complex tools
(UNIX, C++, make,...) we neglect to pass on general principles, so that
students can adapt to new tools when these inevitably fall out of favor.
Subject: Workshop: Making Requirements Measurable
The Requirements Engineering Specialist Group of the British Computer
Society presents...
MAKING REQUIREMENTS MEASURABLE - A WORKSHOP
Workshop chair: Suzanne Robertson (Atlantic Systems Guild)
Date: Wednesday 15th May 1996
Time: 2:00pm - 5:30pm
Venue: Room 418, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London
INTRODUCTION
Requirements traceability and quality assessment depends on requirements
measurability. This workshop explores the idea that a requirement is
measurable provided there is an unambiguous way of determining whether a
given solution fits that requirement. Participants in this workshop examine
requirements measurability by building a requirements specification for a
familiar system. A requirements template will be used as a guide for the
workshop. The workshop finishes with a discussion of how measurable
requirements can be used to build a requirements quality filter.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This is an interactive, participative workshop. Attendees must have a
genuine interest in practical solutions to requirements specification.
Practitioners involved in doing requirements engineering are particularly
welcome. A limited number of student places are available, but the workshop
will only be relevant to students who have had reasonable exposure to the
problems of requirements engineering.
The workshop is aimed at people who are interested in acquiring practical
requirements engineering skills. Applicants for places at the workshop are
encouraged to summarise their requirements engineering background and to
explain why they wish to attend the workshop.
To receive a complete description and registration form, write to:
Dr Orlena Gotel (contact details below)
Email: olly@soi.city.ac.uk
Or visit the group's web page at: http://www.OiT.co.uk/resg/
Subject: MSc in Software Engineering, University of Teesside
Keith -I follow your newsletter and would like to tell you about our
MSc programme in Software Engineering here at University of Teesside
in NorthEast England.
Our grand aim is to produce graduats who can make critical choices
from alternatives in the topic area of software engineering. We run
projects with software developers, because our ethos is 'no-one
writes serious software for fun'. We have a good success rate of
high-quality jobs for our graduates, and some have progressed into
reserach, particularly methods integration.
Let me tell you briefly about the curriculum.
MSc SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
AN ADVANCED COURSE, REQUIRING COMPUTING
EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS TO BCS Pt2 (EQUIVALENT)
EMPHASIS OF TAUGHT SUBJECTS IS ON EARLY-LIFE CYCLE
DESIGN NOTATIONS - YOURDON, WARD-MELLOR, RUMBAUGH, Z, B
INFRASTRUCTURE - PROJECT MANAGEMENT, QUALITY ASSURANCE,
FRAMEWORKS AND ENVIRONMENTS
STRONG ENGINEERING ETHOS SUPPORTED BY TOOLS
B TOOLKIT innovative state-of-the-art tool support for
Formal Methods
ASCENT a CASE tool with support for Ward-Mellor, ourdon, Rumbaugh,
process modelling
MS-PROJECT tool for project planning
POET O-O tool
CCS ANIMATOR for verification and test of formal
scripts about real-time modelling
TBK WORKBENCH for building CASE tools
WIDE RANGE OF INDUSTRY-SUPPORTED PERSONAL PROJECTS
RECENT WORK ON SAFETY KERNELS, PROOF TREE NAVIGATORS,
PLANT PROCESS CONTROL, HYBRID FORMAL METHODS,
CHAZOPS/HAZOPS, MULTIMEDIA.........
FUNDING SUPPORT FROM CLEVELAND TEC TO APPROPRIATE
APPLICANTS
SUPPORTED WITH PROJECT PRIZE MONEY BY BRITISH TELECOM
Alan Jones, University of Teesside,
School of Computing and Mathematics,
Cleveland TS1 3BA
Tel 01642 342681 fax 01642 230527 email alan.jones@tees.ac.uk
Subject: CFP: 10th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training
Call for Participation
10th Conference of Software Engineering Education and Training
Theme and topics
You are invited to participate in the 10th Conference on Software Engineering
Education and Training (CSEE&T) April 13-16, 1997, in Virginia Beach, Va. The
theme of the conference is Transitions to the 21st Century.
Educators, trainers, executives, managers, and administrators gather to
exchange ideas about how to enhance software engineering training and
education. The CSEE&T attracts international participation from industry,
academe, and government. The purpose of the CSEE&T is to influence
educational directions, stimulate new approaches, promote collaboration, and
generate interactive exchanges among software engineering stakeholders.
Government, business, and academe are changing rapidly as emerging
technologies create possibilities that were unheard of ten years ago. New
platforms have shifted the emphasis from centralized systems, to distributed
environments, to the Internet. Advances in telecommunications and networking
have changed the focus from proprietary systems to data and information.
Satisfying customer requirements quickly and accurately within this framework
of profound change has resulted in new software engineering approaches,
methodologies, and tools.
Education and training need to evolve to meet the challenges ahead. The
question for the future is how and in what way we educate and train software
engineers and their managers.
Conference topics include
The future of software
. predictions for the future
. the emergence of true artificial intelligence
. technology challenges ahead
. the changing role of software in business management
. changes to the software engineering organization
The software engineering profession
. competencies that will be needed in the future
. the impact of new life cycles, methodologies, and tools
. the people side of software engineering
The effects of change on software engineering curricula
. software engineering education and the customer's voice
. new education and training philosophies and paradigms
. how to measure the return on investment from education and training
. how to create a "learning" academic institution
Innovative approaches for software engineering courses
. cutting-edge programs in software engineering
. examples of high-performing curricula
. motivations for educators and trainers to explore new learning approaches
. the Internet as a tool for educators and trainers
Industry-academia collaboration
. the current state of collaborative efforts
. lessons learned from the collaborative model
. examples of highly successful collaborations
. how to measure the effect of collaboration on companies and communities
. the effect of collaboration on software engineering education and training
. how much collaboration is necessary
Alternative delivery methods
. new tools and techniques available to educators
. the classroom setting versus learning online in the office or at home
. comparative studies of different delivery methods
Advanced training and education management methods
. total quality management applied in an academic setting
. how educators can be trained to be better teachers
. the role of the student in education management
. compensation and reward systems for educators
. how to apply statistical process control to education
. whether or not students are empowered to learn
Submission guidelines and procedures
We request papers and proposals for workshops, panel discussions, experience
reports, and presentations. We welcome proposals for half- and full-day
tutorials. We invite innovative suggestions for informal meetings, such as
poster sessions or birds-of-a-feather sessions. Submissions should relate to
the conference theme and topics, though this is not mandatory.
Submit five copies of a paper or proposal. Put only the title and beginning
text of the submission on the first page of a paper. Provide a separate
cover sheet with title, all authors' names, affiliations, complete
addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses.
Accepted contributions will appear in the conference proceedings, published
by IEEE.
Important dates
All submissions (papers, panels, workshops, presentations, experience reports,
tutorials) are due by September 1, 1996. Notification of acceptance will be
made by November 1, 1996. Final presentation materials must be received by
January 1, 1997.
There will be a limited number of exhibit tables available at the CSEE&T.
The tables will be provided at no charge to conference participants and
will be distributed in the order requests are received.
Preliminary Program Committee
Kathy Beckman, Computer Data Systems, Inc.
Neal Coulter, Florida Atlantic University
Jorge Diaz-Herrera, SEI
Chuck Engle, Defense Information Systems Agency
Bernice Folz, University of St. Thomas
Gary Ford, SEI
Dennis Frailey, Texas Instruments
Michael Lutz, Rochester Institute of Technology
Karl Reed, La Trobe University
Laurie Werth, University of Texas, Austin
Karl Williams, Motorola, Inc.
Send submissions to
Charlene Rauber
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
4500 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Phone 412 / 268-3007
FAX 412 / 268-5758
Internet education@sei.cmu.edu
Larry Tobin
General Chair
Lawrence Tobin Associates
ltatrain@erols.com
Keith Pierce
Program Chair
University of Minnesota, Duluth
kpierce@d.umn.edu
Sponsored by the SEI.
Co-sponsorship with the IEEE Computer Society is pending.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) cooperation is pending.
The SEI is a federally funded research and development center funded by the
U.S. Department of Defense and operated by Carnegie Mellon University.
Subject: CFP: Third Int'l Conf on Ethical Issues of IT
ETHICOMP96: The Third International Conference on Ethical Issues
of Information Technology
6-8 November 1996
Madrid, Spain
ETHICOMP96 aims to bring together international scholars to consider
current and future developments of IT and resulting social and
ethical issues. The overall theme of ETHICOMP96 will be the value
of IT to society and the likely impacts upon society's values. The
intention is to include papers which provide practical guidance on
socially and ethically sensitive applications of IT -- the social
benefits and drawbacks of using IT. In parallel to this will be the
presentation of case studies which raise or illustrate significant
ethical problems of IT usage (1) in the workplace, (2) in education,
(3) at home and (4) in leisure. Papers and case studies are invited
from relevant disciplines such as philosophy, computer science,
information systems, law, social sciences, business and government.
Papers and case studies with a multi-disciplinary perspective are
particularly welcome.
Example areas of interest are:
- --Organisation and society structure and the location of work - As
powerful change agents, computer technologies change organisations
and social structures. The global community raises many issues
relating to ethnic, cultural and economic differences.
- --Privacy and monitoring - Issues relating to information held on
individuals. What can be or has to be revealed and what safeguards
should be in place to ensure privacy.
- --Value and accuracy of data and information - Issues of
authenticity, fidelity and accuracy and how information can be
cultivated for general good.
- --Software and data as intellectual property
- --Security and computer misuse - Issues of misuse and the impact of
misuse of this invasive technology.
- --Developing information systems now and in the future - How to
ensure social value issues are properly addressed and how to
ensure future advances can be catered for and used in a socially
beneficial way.
Important dates
19 April 1996 Deadline for submission of 500 word abstract
07 June 1996 Deadline for paper or case study submission
23 August 1996 Notification of acceptance/rejection of submission
30 September 1996 Deadline for receipt of electronic/camera ready
versions
See full details in English or Spanish by accessing
http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/CCSR/ccsr/conf/ccsrorgconf.html
For further information contact:
Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility
School of Computing Sciences
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester LE1 9BH UK
Voice: +44 116 257 7475
Fax +44 116 254 1891
E-mail: ccsr@dmu.ac.uk
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