Theory of Modern Engineering Practice Teaching

Modern Teaching, Practice and Technique

Assertions in Modern Software Engineering Practice

I recently conducted an e-mail survey among the Development Managers’ Discussion Group in Microsoft at Redmond, asking for reports on interesting ways that assertions are now being used in Microsoft programming practice. In this talk, I will summarise the results of the survey, and speculate on ways in which assertions can contribute further advantage in speeding the development and maintenance...

Teaching Algorithmics – Theory and Practice

Efficient algorithms and data structures are important fundamentals of all sophisticated computer applications. For that reason, these topics are included in Computer Science and Business Informatics curricula at almost all universities. Indeed, the classic textbooks present algorithms mainly as pure mathematical results [3]. They leave the challenges of their implementation to the readers. On ...

Teaching Concurrency: Theory in Practice

Teaching courses that rely on sound mathematical principles is nowadays a challenging task at many universities. On the one hand there is an increased demand for educating students in these areas, on the other hand there are more and more students being accepted with less adequate skills in mathematics. We report here on our experiences in teaching concurrency theory over the last twenty years ...

Teaching Geotechnical Engineering using Professional Practice

It is a famous q uote that “Every structur e is supported on soils or rock, t hose that aren’t, either fly, float, or fall over”. Soils are natural deposits on which humans have no control. Soils at no two sites are likely to be the same. Even, at a particular point at a sit e, different types of soils exist at different depths. Several theories and formulas have been developed since the birth ...