A Case Study Project for Software Engineering Education

Author

Hilburn, Thomas B. ; Towhidnejad, Massood ; Nangia, Sumeera ; Shen, Li

Author_Institution

Embry-Riddle Univ., Daytona Beach, FL

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper advocates the use of the "case study" approach to educating and training software engineers. After an account of the use of case studies in the education of professionals, there is a discussion of problems in educating software professionals and how a case teaching approach can be used to address these problems. The paper describes a project to develop a comprehensive and complete case study, along with supporting educational material. The case study is designed to teach a variety of software topics, modules and courses: from high school through college and even for continuing professional development

Keywords

computer science education; continuing professional development; software engineering; case study approach; case teaching approach; continuing professional development; software engineering education; Accreditation; Computer science education; Context modeling; Continuing professional development; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Guidelines; Programming; Software design; Software engineering; Case Study Teaching; Problem Based Learning; Software Engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 36th Annual

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0256-5

Electronic_ISBN

0190-5848

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2006.322302

Filename

4116883