TY - GEN
T1 - Developing a software engineering curriculum for the emerging software industry in China
AU - O'Leary, Ciarán
AU - Lawless, Deirdre
AU - Gordon, Damian
AU - Haifeng, Li
AU - Bechkoum, Kamal
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - China currently has one of the world's fastest growing software industries. However the demand for skilled software engineers is currently outstripping supply. Educational institutes are the primary provider ofsofiware engineers. Not only can China's educational institutes not meet the demands of software engineers in terms of quantity, the quality of software engineering graduates at the moment is considered insufficient. The need for educational institutes to be more aware of industry requirements for software engineering graduates and to tailor the curriculum and teaching and learning practice to better fulfill these has been recognized as critical to China's success. To assist with this the Emersion project was established in 2003 to attempt to exchange knowledge and expertise between the EU and China with the goal of developing an industry-oriented education model for software engineering in China. In this paper, we describe our experiences in developing the curriculum which is at the heart of this model and which is based unpublished best practice and experience of industry and academia in the EU and China.
AB - China currently has one of the world's fastest growing software industries. However the demand for skilled software engineers is currently outstripping supply. Educational institutes are the primary provider ofsofiware engineers. Not only can China's educational institutes not meet the demands of software engineers in terms of quantity, the quality of software engineering graduates at the moment is considered insufficient. The need for educational institutes to be more aware of industry requirements for software engineering graduates and to tailor the curriculum and teaching and learning practice to better fulfill these has been recognized as critical to China's success. To assist with this the Emersion project was established in 2003 to attempt to exchange knowledge and expertise between the EU and China with the goal of developing an industry-oriented education model for software engineering in China. In this paper, we describe our experiences in developing the curriculum which is at the heart of this model and which is based unpublished best practice and experience of industry and academia in the EU and China.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33750115305&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CSEET.2006.16
DO - 10.1109/CSEET.2006.16
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33750115305
SN - 0769525571
SN - 9780769525570
T3 - Software Engineering Education Conference, Proceedings
SP - 115
EP - 122
BT - Proceedings - 19th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2006
T2 - 19th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2006
Y2 - 19 April 2006 through 21 April 2006
ER -