Software engineering education in the associate-degree-level vocational/technical computer science program

Computer Engineering , Degree Project , Second Level , 30 higher education credits

The interest in indoor service robots is increasing day by day. Depending on the specific application, an array of issues and problems must be dealt with in order to obtain a stable and satisfactory behavior. A major problem that applies to all types of service robots (and robots in general) is concerning the navigation. Two ingredients are necessary in order to achieve navigation; a map of the...

Informatics: Contextualizing Computer Science and Software Engineering Education

Bio: Debra J. Richardson is the Ted and Janice Smith Family Foundation Dean and Professor of Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Irvine. She received her PhD in Computer and Information Science at the University of Massachusetts in 1981. She joined the UCI faculty in 1987. Dr. Richardson pioneered research in “specification-based testing”, ...

Mathematics, Computer Science, Software Engineering

This paper examines three ideas: First, the traditional relationship between a science, the mathematics it uses and the engineering based on it. Second, the nature of (software) computer science, which may not be a science at all, and its unusual use of mathematics. And finally, the nature of software engineering, its relationship with computer science, and its use of mathematics called ‘formal...

Designing Software Engineering Option within Computer Science Bachelor of Science Program

This paper describes a Software Engineering Option (SEO) within the current BS in Computer Science program at UMASS Dartmouth. The SE Option reuses significant portion of the existing Computer Science curriculum and provides exposure to software engineering discipline through five new courses and a yearlong senior group software engineering project. This approach is innovative because it builds...

Articulate Software for Science and Engineering Education