by Matthias Gehrke, Holger Giese, Ekkart Kindler, Jörg Niere, Wilhelm Schäfer, Jörg P. Wadsack, Robert Wagner, Lothar Wendehals
Abstract:
Teaching software engineering is a sumptuous task. In particular, practical software engineering courses require a lot of experienced teaching staff, who are, as a result, kept away from research projects. In this paper, we report on a software engineering course using a large interdisciplinary project from current research. This way, the students were challenged by an interesting industrial strength task. In turn, we obtained students who were well-skilled for joining the research projects. What is more, the software developed during the software engineering course immediately contributed to the research project. Altogether, the additional expenses spent on teaching did not only improve the quality of teaching, but also paid back to the research project.
Reference:
Software Engineering Education: The Synergy of Combined Research and Teaching (Matthias Gehrke, Holger Giese, Ekkart Kindler, Jörg Niere, Wilhelm Schäfer, Jörg P. Wadsack, Robert Wagner, Lothar Wendehals), Technical report tr-ri-03-237, University of Paderborn, 2003.
Bibtex Entry:
@TechReport{GGK+03_ag,
AUTHOR = {Gehrke, Matthias and Giese, Holger and Kindler, Ekkart and Niere, Jörg and Sch\"{a}fer, Wilhelm and Wadsack, Jörg P. and Wagner, Robert and Wendehals, Lothar},
TITLE = {{Software Engineering Education: The Synergy of Combined Research and Teaching}},
YEAR = {2003},
MONTH = {January},
NUMBER = {tr-ri-03-237},
PAGES = {1-9},
ADDRESS = {Paderborn, Germany},
INSTITUTION = {University of Paderborn},
URL = {http://www.upb.de/cs/ag-schaefer/Veroeffentlichungen/Quellen/Papers/2003/tr-ri-03-237.pdf},
PDF = {tr-ri-03-237.pdf},
ABSTRACT = {Teaching software engineering is a sumptuous task. In particular, practical software engineering courses require a lot of experienced teaching staff, who are, as a result, kept away from research projects. In this paper, we report on a software engineering course using a large interdisciplinary project from current research. This way, the students were challenged by an interesting industrial strength task. In turn, we obtained students who were well-skilled for joining the research projects. What is more, the software developed during the software engineering course immediately contributed to the research project. Altogether, the additional expenses spent on teaching did not only improve the quality of teaching, but also paid back to the research project.}
}