Task Force Members

Mohamed Fayad
Ahmed Hambaba
David Hayes
Cay Horstmann
Sigurd Meldal (chair)
Jon Pearce

Work Documents, Drafts, etc.

• SIE modified; end-product of the Spring 2002 series of discussions (pdf, Excel)

Links

• SWEBOK (Software Engineering Book of Knowledge)
• CC2001 (Computing Curricula)
• SEI's draft Guidelines for Software Engineering Education.
• FASE (Forum for Advancing Software Engineering Education)
• Tom Hilburn has put together an extensive set of links on the software engineering education subject area.
• A checklist to check how a program may relate to the accreditation criteria, the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge and the proposed model curriculum for software engineering (word, pdf).

Articles

• An article reporting a first experience with the year-long project management and execution course sequence (from ICEE 2001)

• IEEE Software September/October 2002. Archive
  
• Hossein Saiedian et al., Software Engineering Programs: Dispelling the Myths and Misconceptions, IEEE Software September/October 2002.
• Timothy C. Lethbridge, What Knowledge is Important to a Software Professional?, IEEE Computer, May 2000.
• Bertrand Meyer, Software Engineering in the Academy, IEEE Computer, May 2001.

Accreditation

• ABET:
  ABET engineering accreditation criteria
  (Software Engineering is on page 17, a local copy is here)
• CAC
• CSAB
• Decoder ring for these acronyms

SJSU

Programs:

• BS Computer Science
• BS Software and Information Engineering
• BS Computer Engineering
• MS Computer Engineering
• MSE Client/Server
• MSE Software Systems
• MS Computer Science

Course Catalog: CS | CMPE

Mailing list archive

Memo from Deans Selter and Wei (2002-10-10)

Other Programs

• International Survey of Software Engineering Academic Programs (2001)
• CalPoly (proposal): The SE program proposal, as sent from the department to the University
  A depiction of the core structure of the program (pdf).
• University of Melbourne (Software engineering degree)
• University of Michigan –Dearborn (proposal)
• University of Calgary (proposal)
• Drexel Univ. (CSC Degree - Software engineering track required)
• RIT (Software engineering degree)

Other documents of interest

• Texas Board of Professional Engineers
• The white paper from the CalPoly CSC Department Industrial Advisory Council (html, pdf).
• Software development should be an engineering endeavor, by S Meldal et al. (memo to Dean Peter Lee, Cal Poly) (pdf).
• A report evaluating the need for a software engineering degree program, comparing it to other programs and reporting feedback on student interest in the program (pdf).
• The CalPoly CSC motion to offer the program (html, pdf).
• The course descriptions for the Cal Poly upper division courses (in excruciating detail):
  • CPE 402 Software Requirements Engineering (pdf)
  • CPE 405 Software Design & Construction (pdf)
  • CPE 406 Software Deployment (pdf)
• Summary of the Cal Poly IAC/SE committee meeting 2/25/2000 (html, pdf).