Software Engineering Education The Educational Needs of the Software Community [Paperback]

Focus on masters' level education in software engineering.Topics discussed include: software engineering principles,current software engineering curricula, experiences with ex-isting courses, and the future of software engineering edu-cation.Focus on masters' level education in software engineering.Topics discussed include: software engineering principles,current software engineering curricula, experiences with ex-isting courses, and the future of software engineering edu-cation.Section I Keynote Speech and Opening Discussion.- People Are Our Most important Product.- Opening Discussion.- Section II.- 1 Software Engineering Principles.- The Experimental Aspects of a Professional Degree in Software Engineering.- Cognitive Science View of Software Engineering.- Software Engineering Education: An Idealized Scenario.- Essential Elements of Software Engineering Education Revisited.- Software Engineering and Computer Science: How Do They Differ?.- The Environment for the Software Engineer.- Considerations for Graduate Software Engineering Education: An Air Force Perspective.- Why Is Software Engineering So Difficult?.- Technology Selection Education for Software Engineers.- Graduate-level Software Engineering Education: A Practitioners Viewpoint.- Some Observations on the Nature of the Software Engineering Problem and Their Implications for Software Engineering Education.- 2 Current Software Engineering Curricula.- Adapting to Changing Needs: A New Perspective on Software Engineering Education at Texas Christian University.- The Software Engineering First Degree at Imperial College, London.- The Master of Software Engineering Program at Seattle University after Six Years.- Academic/Industrial Collaboration in a Postgraduate Master of Science Degree in Software Engineering.- 3 Experiences with Existing Courses.- Skills versus Knowledge in Software Engineering Education: A Retrospective on the Wang Institute MSE Program.- Experience with a Software Engineeringló(