The goal of science is conclusion stability, i.e. to discover some effect X that holds in multiple situations. Sadly, there are all too few examples of stable conclusions in software engineering (SE). In fact, the typical result is conclusion instability where what is true for project one, does not hold for project two. We can find numerous studies of the following form: there is as much eviden...

So far, many software developments tend to rather depend on experience-based know-how. In the formal demonstration, we introduce our ongoing project for developing a tool named Empirical Project Monitor as a partial implementation of the empirical software engineering platform. This project aims at establishing the methodology for software development based on the scientific method in order to ...

Allowing graduate students to develop a real world project for actual customers provides an opportunity for students to experience the benefits of following basic software engineering principles. Most universities now offer a course in software engineering and many information technology students must complete a class project in conjunction with their degree program. One reason businesses often...

Student centered learning in Engineering thermodynamics has a large potential, but is also associated with some difficulties. As way to facilitate a student centered learning, a project based on the compressor cycle was developed for and investigated for a course in Engineering thermodynamics for first year students. The project was evaluated based on interviews during the project, and a survey...

This paper contributes to understanding of the generic engineering competencies required by engineers graduating in Australia, and to competency theory. The Competencies of Engineering Graduates (CEG) Project was conducted to identify the generic engineering competencies required by engineers graduating in Australia. The methodology adapted a theoretical framework for understanding key competen...

Project-based learning has been illustrated to be an effective means of teaching students many of the "real-world" issues that arise during the course of engineering projects. However, project-based learning tends to have a product-centric focus. This paper describes an experimental run of a project-based learning program with a researchoriented focus, named "X-PBL." In this project, four colle...

The software industry has a growing demand for project managers which has leveraged the efforts to improve the teaching of project management competencies in higher education computer courses. Part of these efforts has been concentrated on improving instructional feedback when teaching these competencies. Instructional feedback is essential in order to help the students to learn based on an eva...

1 Thomas Reichlmayr, Software Engineering Department, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, [email protected] Abstract The rise in popularity of agile software development methodologies such as Extreme Programming (XP), Crystal, DSDM and Feature-Driven Development has opened an opportunity for the software engineering education community. How can one capitalize on the strengths o...