Panel discussion: Envision a curriculum for Software Engineering

Envision a curriculum for Software Engineering: Needs and Necessities

Monday, April 6th we will be having a panel discussion moderated by Clyde Cutting on what would make a Software Engineering curriculum. Please attend and participate with your questions.

Our conversation on a Software Engineering curriculum is specifically based on a Chemical Engineering similarity as mentioned by Mary Shaw in her 1990 article, “Prospects for an engineering discipline of software” (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/60586).

The SW Expertise Meetup Group Started in December. We are discussing new possibilities and ideas for an Engineering discipline in the field of software development.

Our focus areas have included:

Expertise

• Assessment of Expertise- Behaviorally Anchored Self-Assessment
• How to do Deliberate Practice
• How to use Cognitive Science to improve thinking skills in Software

Our observations for the need of a new model for Software Development as an Engineering discipline:

• Software Development lacks the coherence found in other engineering disciplines.
• Proposed remedies have not fixed and are not fixing the problems in building the world's needed software.
• Software Engineering luminaries have researched and proposed new curricula, but without industry consolidation and adoption.

Check out our new wiki! https://softwarefactory.us/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:2020-04-06-mon

New schedule of alternate Monday meetings!

Schedule: 6 to ~7:30pm - panel discussion on Zoom

Stay tuned for future possible discussions:

• Dreyfus scale in expertise
• Deliberate practice strategies from book 52 Tips
• How to construct 5-hour learning projects
• Open discussion sessions with any topics attendees want to study
• As a group get ideas and then plan out some study projects
• Plenty of articles to read and discuss
• And applying deliberate practice to collaborative groups

• Clyde