Broadening the Education of Software Engineers - Some Lessons and Pointers

Author

Griffin, Joe ; Ryan, Kevin

Author_Institution

Dept of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Syst., Univ. of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

fYear

2010

fDate

6-9 April 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

12

Abstract

Professional Issues in Software Engineering (PISE) has been taught as part of the computer systems undergraduate degree programme at the University of Limerick using a multi-institutional collaborative pedagogy. PISE considers the ethical, legal and social consequences of the design, implementation and use of computer and information systems. Students from UL collaborated with students from other universities in USA, England and Malta, working together in geographically distributed virtual learning groups to consider ethical issues in software engineering. This paper reflects the longitudinal evaluation of teaching and assessment methods that have been developed over 20 years.

Keywords

computer science education; continuing professional development; ethical aspects; software engineering; computer systems undergraduate degree programme; ethical issues; geographically distributed virtual learning groups; multiinstitutional collaborative pedagogy; software engineering professional issues; software engineers education; teaching evaluation; Collaboration; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Computer science; Computer science education; Ethics; Information systems; Law; Legal factors; Software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transforming Engineering Education: Creating Interdisciplinary Skills for Complex Global Environments, 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Dublin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6040-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TEE.2010.5508835

Filename

5508835