Introducing Software Engineering to Computer Engineering Students

Software engineering is an important topic computer engineering students should learn at the undergraduate level. Many traditional software engineering courses focus on Web-based and database applications with only limited attention to embedded microprocessor topics. For the computer engineering student that approach is not satisfactory. The course described in this paper focuses on topics important to a computer engineering disciple. The evolution of the course over a three semester period is discussed and key issues related to teaching software engineering to computer engineering students are presented