Park Bench Panel on SE Education for the Next Generation of Software Engineers
Saturday May 27, 14:00-15:30, Rm 111 at UCA

We will have a rotating panel in Park Bench format (see below) at SECM. The panel will focus on how academic SE education and training programs can prepare the students for the challenges of the real world. We would like to invite all ICSE student volunteers to participate in the panel to have their voices heard, express their wants and needs, challenge the position of educators, and propose new ways of teaching and learning software engineering subjects.

Come and join us. If you can’t be present for the whole duration of the panel, drop by any time between 14:15 and 15:30 since the format will allow any participant to jump in at any point. No preparation is required.

For questions, don’t hesitate to contact hakan.erdogmus@sv.cmu.edu.

Looking forward to seeing you at the panel.

Park Bench Panel (by Ward Cunningham)…

A panel discussion is a good way for experts to spend some time rambling in front of a large audience. The audience gets to know the experts in a way that is only possible in person and the expert gets a little more exposure without having to prepare or be reviewed. But sometimes the panel can’t get it together and the real expert is in the audience. Therefore, let anyone in the audience join the panel. Leave one chair open. Let it be known that the empty chair provides the only means for audience participation. Do not take questions from the floor or from the moderator. Do not expect anyone taking that chair to necessarily ask a question, though that is often how their participation will begin. Make clear also that when the empty chair is filled that one of the current complement of panelists will have to vacate their chair so that there is always exactly one empty chair. Sometimes panelists are eager to leave but cannot do so until they find a subject that attracts someone from the audience to participate in their place. One is welcome to rejoin the panel should they find renewed interest in the conversation. This format is a good substitute for question & answer dialog.

We have posted an updated agenda here.

To make the workshop more productive, we have prepared some instructions. We are not asking for too much: just one position slide to be sent a few days in advance of the workshop date. Authors of accepted papers and non-authors who registered for the workshop can find preparation instructions here.

We are asking that authors limit their presentations to 5 minutes. This will allow us to have more time for interaction, open discussion, and other activities.

Tales from an Agile Journey: Designing Curricula for Millennials in Industry and Academia

Diego Fontdevila
Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero and Grupo Esfera

Abstract—The traditional role of the teacher as holder of all wisdom has been put in question, at least in some circles, in the last few years. Changes brought on by Millennials, a new generation of students both eager to collaborate and restless, the ubiquitous overflow of information, the rise of agility, the proliferation of new teaching methodologies, and profound shifts in technology have generated alternatives and challenged us teachers to do our work differently. The theories behind these changes are decades old, but only with the convergence of these factors do we begin to see a shift in centuries old structures of teaching practice, both in industry and academia.

In this talk, I will share my experience and that of my peers in teaching and designing curricula in industry and academia, and how our own learnings from the agile community have influenced both content and form in the design of software engineering programs and courses. I will discuss entry-level software engineering programs for large companies and agile/technology training in both industry and computer science programs. I will describe (1) how the organizations to which I belong have faced the challenges of articulating different courses for innovation, (2) a university-wide cross-functional team of facilitators to help students navigate their way through the curriculum, (3) applications of active learning methodologies in both industry and university, and (4) the deployment of the inverted curriculum throughout a computer engineering program.

About the Speaker—Diego Fontdevila holds a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Buenos Aires, a M.Sc. in Software Engineering Management from Carnegie Mellon University/SEI, and is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of La Plata. He is an undergraduate professor at the University of Tres de Febrero and a graduate Professor at the Catholic University of Argentina. He has been a university teacher for 19 years, including at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of La Matanza. He has been working in the software development industry for 19 years. Since 2005, Diego has served as a founder and director of Grupo Esfera, a software development, training and consulting company based in Buenos Aires. He is an active member of the Ágiles Latin American agile community, was co-chair of the Agiles 2010 Latin American Conference in Lima, Peru, and has been a speaker at several international conferences. Diego is also co-author of the book Construcción de software: una mirada ágil.

The workshop chairs sent notifications to authors on February 17. We accepted six contributions and will publish the list soon. We thank the Program Committee for their diligence and timeliness in reviewing the submissions.

Authors of accepted contributions must register to the workshop and submit their camera-ready copy to IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS) by February 27. Register at the ICSE Registration Site . This deadline is strict. At least one author must register.

Authors should have received instructions from IEEE CPS on how to prepare and submit their camera-ready copy. If you haven’t received an email from CPS, please contact Patrick Kellenberger (<pkellenberger@computer.org>) ASAP.

Position Pages must be 4 pages or shorter and Experience Reports and Research Papers must be 7 pages or shorter. The page limits include biographical sketches (for Position Papers) and references (for all submission types). These limits will be enforced.

Thank you for submitting to SECM| And congratulations to the authors of accepted contributions!

We will accept submissions until January 29, 2017.

Refer to Call for Contributions for submission categories, topics, and instructions.

We are soliciting Short Position Papers, Experience Reports, and Research Papers. Position Papers can be as short as two pages.  See Call for Contributions for topics, format, and submission instructions.

Check out our Twitter feed at #secm2017. Feel free to tweet and retweet about the workshop, mentioning #secm2017 and @ICSEConf. Help us spread the word by forwarding the Call for Contributions link to your colleagues and students.

For questions, contact hakan.erdogmus@sv.cmu.edu.