Software Engineering Education and Training

Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET) Track

Theme: Extending the Boundaries of Software Engineering Education and Training

Goal

Software engineering is a maturing discipline that is increasingly important in a technology enabled connected world. The changes in this new century are probing the boundaries of software engineering education and training. These changes vary from an ever-increasing rate of technology adoption to the online education popularity. It is often claimed new technologies can help educators to make a difference in software engineering teaching and learning. Others claim e-learning and its various delivery formats may even dominate education and training in the near future.

Therefore, educating and training tomorrow’s software engineers represent ongoing challenges. For instance, the promotion of distance learning in many topics of software engineering – such as requirements engineering, software design, modular programming, software testing and software project management – remains challenging and requires further development. Studying these subjects can become more difficult if the courses are designed without attention to human-computer interaction issues. Many software engineering topics are highly technical in nature, which may be hard for either students or professionals to learn independently in a fully online environment.

There are many other challenges as the frontiers of software engineering education and training are being extended in many directions. In this context, in this year’s ICSE track on Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), our goal is to explore how to extend the boundaries of how educators, trainers, students and professional software engineers exchange and acquire software engineering knowledge and skills.

Scope

The ICSE 2014 SEET Track is looking for contributions that address new challenges and best practices in software engineering and training. While we welcome submissions on all topics related to software engineering education and training, we are particularly interested in submissions exploring recent trends in education and training. A few examples of such trends include the innovative use of social media for knowledge management and acquisition, the widespread adoption of mobile devices, the online education movement, and the increasing uptake in end user software engineering in business and the sciences. A key concern is how these and other exciting developments will or may play a role in traditional software engineering education and training programs. Innovative approaches to other long-term challenges are also welcome.

Topics of Interest

The track is intended to cover a wide range of topics, including (but not limited to):

• new best practices for SEET
• innovative curriculum or course formats
• experiences with the ACM/IEEE Curriculum 2013
• impact of online education movement on SE curricula
• innovative methods for SEET in online courses
• learnable programming
• integration of software engineering research into teaching and training
• blending software engineering and other disciplines, such as music, art and psychology
• continuing education in the face of rapid technological change
• education and training paradigms of the new century, such as cloud computing or global software development
• ensuring graduated students meet new industry needs through the understanding of development practices for different environments
• innovative use of social media for knowledge management
• exploring the widespread adoption of mobile devices for SEET
• different experiences and needs in developing countries

Format and Submissions:

All papers must conform to the ICSE 2014 formatting and submission instructions. Page limits include all text, references, appendices, and figures. We solicit high-quality submissions for this track in the following categories:

• Full papers, up to 10 pages, documenting results and findings, where the research presented has followed established research methods;
• Short papers, up to 4 pages, reporting novel results that have not been fully evaluated;
• Case study papers, up to 8 pages, reporting on novel courses, tools, or delivery formats, possibly related to the ACM/IEEE Curriculum 2013;
• Panel session proposals, up to 4 pages, which describe the topic to be discussed and include an argument as to why this topic will be of interest and present a proposed panel membership.

Papers must be submitted electronically by October 23rd, 2013. Accepted papers will appear in the SEET Proceedings of the ICSE 2014 Conference and the ACM and IEEE digital libraries. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the SEET Program Committee. The submission must not have been previously published or concurrently submitted elsewhere. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of contribution, applicability, validation, relation to the goals listed above, discussion of related work, and quality of presentation.

Submit your papers electronically here: http://cyberchairpro.borbala.net/icseeducationpapers/submit/

Important Dates

Submissions

All papers must conform at the time of submission to the ICSE 2014 formatting and submission instructions. Please note page limits for each submission type under the "Scope" section above. Page limits include all text, references, appendices, and figures. Papers must be submitted electronically by October 23rd, 2013. Accepted papers will appear in the SEET Proceedings of the ICSE 2014 Conference and the ACM and IEEE digital libraries.

SEET Program Co-Chairs

Alessandro Garcia, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Mehdi Jazayeri, University of Lugano, Switzerland

Program Committee

Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan University, Japan
Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Andrew Begel, Microsoft Research, USA
Yuanfang Cai, Drexel University, USA
Jeffrey C. Carver, University of Alabama, USA
Ivica Crnkovic, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Daniela Damian, University of Victoria, Canada
Arie van Deursen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Stephan Diehl, University Trier, Germany
Eduardo Figueiredo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Carlo Ghezzi,Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Holger Giese, Universität Potsdam, Germany
Itana Gimenes, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil
Sanjay Goel, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India
John Grundy, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Jaejoon Lee, Lancaster University, UK
Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Hausi A. Müller, University of Victoria, Canada
Filippo Lanubile, University of Bari, Italy
Ita Richardson, University of Limerick, Ireland
Guoping Rong, Nanjing University, China
Ashish Sureka, IIIT-Delhi, India
Tetsuo Tamai, Hosei University, Japan
Arto Vihavainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Tony Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, USA
Tao Xie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Amir Zeid, American University of Kuwait, Kuwait