Reviewing the curriculum of software engineering undergraduate courses to incorporate communication and interpersonal skills teaching

Author

Teles, Vinicius Manhaes ; de Oliveira, Carlo Emmanoel Tolla

Author_Institution

Nucleo de Computacao Eletronica, Univ. Fed. do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

fYear

2003

fDate

20-22 March 2003

Firstpage

158

Lastpage

165

Abstract

The major problems of software development projects are not so much technical as sociological in nature. The industry seems to agree very much with this statement while the university seems to give it little importance. The article begins analyzing some related work and proposes changes in software engineering undergraduate courses to accommodate new ways of teaching and to incorporate professional skills teaching. It also describes a course on extreme programming where some techniques will be used and evaluated.

Keywords

computer science education; educational courses; professional communication; programming; software engineering; teaching; communication skills teaching; curriculum; extreme programming; interpersonal skills teaching; professional skills teaching; sociological problems; software development projects; software engineering undergraduate courses; university; Australia; Business communication; Computer science; Computer science education; Employment; Humans; Information systems; Programming profession; Software engineering; Teamwork;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Education and Training, 2003. (CSEE&T 2003). Proceedings. 16th Conference on

ISSN

1093-0175

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1869-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSEE.2003.1191373

Filename

1191373