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Instructor resources

This page contains useful pointers for instructors teaching SE project courses.

Software Engineering Curriculum

• Guide to Software Engineering Book of Knowledge (2004)
• Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Software Engineering (2004)

Project course structure in various universities

• Instructions for instructors from Software Engineering for Internet Applications, an MIT course text book
•  Software Engineering Group Project Student Handbook (1999-2000) by Graham Hutton, School of Computer Science and IT, University of Nottingham
• 521479S Software Project, University of Oulu, Finland

Thoughts about course projects

• How do we manage student projects? by Eddie Burris [doc] [ppt]
• Why Do Universities Fail Teaching Software Engineering?  by Guy Keren

Research papers

• Knight, J.C. and Horton, T.B., Evaluating a software engineering project course model based on studio presentations, Frontiers in Education, 2005. FIE apos;05. Proceedings 35th Annual Conference
• Cusick, J., Lessons Learned from Teaching Software Engineering to Adult Students, Thirteenth Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training, pp. 39
• Tuya, J. and Garcia-Fanjul, J., Effort measurement in student software engineering projects, Frontiers in Education Conference, 2000. 30th Annual, FIE 2000. Volume 1, Issue , 2000
• Jarzabek, S. and Eng, P.K. “Teaching an Advanced Design, Team-oriented Software Project Course”, 18th Int. Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), IEEE CS, April 2005, Ottawa, pp. 223-230
• D. A. Lamb, Reducing student workload in a software engineering project course, Lecture Notes in Computer Science on Software Engineering Education, pp. 145 - 153 , 1988
• Brown, J., Bloodshot eyes: workload issues in computer science project courses, Proc. Seventh Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC 2000, pp. 46 - 52
• many more to be added soon...

Your paper not listed above? Drop us an email.

Conferences/Journals/workshops etc.

• International Symposium on Software Engineering Course Projects (SWECP)
• Frontiers in Education
• Int. Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training
• International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) - Education track
• Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges

Other resources

• Document templates for student projects in Software Engineering - by Declan Delaney and Stephen Brown
• Tom Hilburn's list of SE Education resources
• Ivan Marsic's list of online SE resources

Giving feedback

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