Promoting creativity, innovation and engineering excellence

Author

Weerawarana, Shahani Markus ; Perera, Amal Shehan ; Nanayakkara, Vishaka

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

fYear

2012

fDate

20-23 Aug. 2012

Abstract

We present the design of a software engineering project course targeted towards fostering innovation and creativity and in instilling a sense of software engineering rigor in students. The discussion includes our experiences in conducting this course over the past three years for the students following the Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) degree program in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Moratuwa. We describe the challenges we faced and our approaches towards addressing such issues as well as our encouraging successes.

Keywords

computer science education; educational courses; educational institutions; innovation management; software engineering; Bachelor of Engineering degree program; Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Faculty of Engineering; University of Moratuwa; creativity promotion; engineering excellence; innovation promotion; software engineering project course; Computer science; Educational institutions; Industries; Software; Software engineering; Technological innovation; computer science education; creative thinking; engineering education; innovation; software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2417-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2416-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TALE.2012.6360374

Filename

6360374