Forum for Advancing Software engineering Education Volume 6 Number 5 March 3, 1996 Contents: Request for info: MSE programs Request for info: Systems Engineering Training European Software Institute Web Site Miscellaneous internet sources Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement Workshop CFP: Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education CFP: Providing Quality Computer Science Education CFP - ISSRE 96 CFP : 7th european workshop on next generation of case tools CFP: Workshop on Software Configuration Management CFP: ICECCS'96 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 22 Feb 1996 20:34:21 -0600 From: Steve Fickas Subject: Request for info: MSE programs We are contemplating a Masters of Software Engineering in the state of Oregon. The MSE degree would involve all four research institutes in the state. I'd like to hear from anyone who has experience in an existing MSE program, either in administering, teaching or as a student. Stephen Fickas, Associate Professor Computer Science Dept. University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 office: (503) 346-3964 fax: (503) 346-5373 url: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~fickas/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 22 Feb 1996 20:52:22 -0600 From: skuehl@logicon.com (Steve Kuehl) Subject: Request for info: Systems Engineering Training I was a member of the IEEE CBSE task force and still remain on their mailing list. I also receive the IEEE Software Engineering Technical Council Newsletter where I located your education news section. I am presently an active technical member on the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Systems Engineering Technical Committee (SETC). We have an Education/Dissemination subcommittee responsible with the collection and generation of systems engineering training and teaching material within the AIAA TCs. We also are working with our software TC to address the educational needs for training system engineers (ranging from grade school to advanced college degree training). Our committee members have positions on IEEE, INOCSE, and SAE committees in software and systems engineering. I would like to ask you if you would have any technical papers that address systems engineering aspects of software engineering that might shed some new light on the direction of new training techniques/approaches. I would deeply appreciate any list of authors or papers that might have good educational ideas. We would like to share some of our experiences with your group in the future. Steve Kuehl Avionics Senior Systems Engineer AIAA Systems Engineering TC - Education/Dissemination SubCommittee skuehl@logicon.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 23 Feb 1996 09:26:14 -0600 From: kpierce@d.umn.edu (Keith Pierce) Subject: European Software Institute Web Site The European Software Institute now has a web site at http://www.esi.es. The ESI has an active training initiative that is described there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 Feb 1996 15:14:58 -0600 From: kpierce@d.umn.edu (Keith Pierce) Subject: Miscellaneous internet sources From the NewsSheet of the CTI Centre for Computing: http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/%7Edmjones/hbp/ This web page contains bibliographies of several ACM and IEEE journals and links to many others. http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/ The Software Technology Support Centre, sponsored by the US Air Force, makes available here several reports on software engineering topics. STSC also publishes a monthly newsletter, Crosstalk, with articles on software engineering technology and the classroom. From their web page: CrossTalk is the information source that software professionals rely on for up-to-date information. If you are among those who: Develop or maintain defense software, Manage defense software, Create tools used in software production, Or educate software practitioners and you plan to be in business next year, five years from now, and continue into the 21st century, you should be reading CrossTalk today. To subscribe, send email to custserv@software.hill.af.mil or see the above web site. http://www.IcoNode.ca/trdev/ This site contain an eclectic mix of information for trainers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 28 Feb 1996 10:45:00 -0600 From: prey@cs.virginia.edu (Jane Prey) Subject: Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement Workshop The University of Virginia and the National Science Foundation are sponsoring a summer Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement Workshop for Course & Curriculum Development and the Closed Laboratory Model. The dates are July 21 thru July 26, 1996. Please see our homepage for further details. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 1 Mar 1996 12:37:45 -0600 From: hinchey@homer.njit.edu (Michael Hinchey) Subject: CFP: Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education 1st Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education Call for Papers The First Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education will be held at Sydney, Australia, on July 3-5 1996. The conference solicits submissions which describe innovations in teaching computer science, information systems, and information technology, at all post-secondary levels. Typical subjects include * new course content, * new curriculum structure, * new methods of instruction, * new methods of assessment, * new tools to aid in teaching or learning, * and new results evaluating alternative approaches. These innovations may be in the context of formal courses or self-directed learning; they may involve introductory programming, service courses, specialist undergraduate or even postgraduate topics. The ACM SIGCSE conference provides a model for the style of paper, and ACM recognition is being sought for this event. Also we particularly welcome work directed at issues of local importance (eg quality management in teaching, teaching for indigenous people, attracting and retaining female students, articulation between vocational and university education). The program committee will select the papers to appear, based on their potential to enhance learning outcomes in CS, IS and IT courses at universities in the Australasian region. Submission deadline is April 1 1995. For more information contact John Rosenberg or Michael Wise by email (johnr@cs.su.oz.au or michaelw@cs.su.oz.au) or by fax: +61 2 3513838 or phone +61 2 3513423. Also, visit us on the Web at http://www.cs.su.oz.au/acse96/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 Feb 1996 14:52:33 -0600 From: kpierce@d.umn.edu (Keith Pierce) Subject: Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education Barcelona, Spain June 2 - 6, 1996 This conference is a first in several ways - the first collaboration between SIGCSE (Computer Science Education) and SIGCUE (Computer Uses in Education). It is also the first venture outside North America for both SIGs. The response has been gratifying and we have great expectations for the exchange of ideas and experiences at this truly international meeting. The format of this meeting is somewhat unusual and needs explanation: there are two distinct, but intertwined events here. First, there is a conference. It begins with a reception on the evening of Sunday, 2 June 1996 and concludes Wednesday evening. In addition, 5 groups of 10 people will meet in working groups to produce concrete recommendations on the topic of technology in computer science education. Their work will be presented to the conference attendees for feedback and discussion on two occasions: Monday afternoon and Wednesday afternoon. Each presentation of working group status will occur during a reception that will include wine and tapas, a casual atmosphere in which people will gather in interest groups to comment on what the working groups have accomplished and make suggestions to strengthen their reports. The working group reports will be published promptly after the conference and will be widely distributed. For more information, see the conference web page at http://www.csc.vill.edu/html/sigcse.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 Feb 1996 14:52:58 -0600 From: kpierce@d.umn.edu (Keith Pierce) Subject: CFP: Providing Quality Computer Science Education August 27-30, 1996 Dublin City University The conference focusses on the growing importance of sharing good practice iand integrating innovative techniques into the delivery of computing and information systems programmes. Deadline for submission of papers, workshops, and poster demonstrations is March 15, 1996. For more information contact Sylvia Alexander, S.Alexander@ulst.ac.uk. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 23 Feb 1996 14:48:39 -0600 From: Elliot Chikofsky Subject: CFP - ISSRE 96 The Seventh International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Crowne Plaza Hotel, White Plains, NY October 30, 1996 - November 2, 1996 Abstract Deadline: March 1, 1996 (e-mail preferred) Submission Deadline: April 1, 1996 (hardcopies only) see http://www.research.ibm.com/softeng for details ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 23 Feb 1996 14:51:23 -0600 From: Said ASSAR Subject: CFP : 7th european workshop on next generation of case tools CALL FOR PAPERS THE 7TH EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NEXT GENERATION OF CASE TOOLS (NGCT'96) 20-21 May, 1996 Crete, Greece The Next Generation of CASE Tools (NGCT) workshop brings together leading researchers on Computer Aided Software Engineering. The first six workshops held at Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands; Trondheim, Norway; Manchester, UK; Paris, France; Utrecht, The Netherlands and Jyvaskyla, Finland were attended by 25-30 researchers, and have laid the groundwork for continuing exchange and integration of research ideas in this area. The 7th workshop will consolidate and expand this exchange of ideas into active development of the agenda for CASE research. Attendance at the workshop will be limited to 25 delegates to promote effective discussion and exchange of ideas in a small group. The programme has been arranged to encourage informal exchange of ideas. Submission deadline: March 15th 1996 Questions can be directed to: Babak Amin Farshchian: Email: baf@idt.unit.no Phone: +47 73 593677 Fax: +47 73 594466 Tom R. Henriksen: Email: tomrh@idt.unit.no Phone: +47 73 594427 Fax: +47 73 594466 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 26 Feb 1996 08:48:30 -0600 From: is@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Ian Sommerville) Subject: CFP: Workshop on Software Configuration Management The sixth international workshop on software configuration management will be held in Berlin on March 25-26, 1996 in conjunction with ICSE'18. The theme of the workshop will be *dissemination* where researchers will discuss advanced research and practitioners will bring their experience of SCM and their CM problems to the meeting. We don't want the workshop to be a mini-conference where we spend all our time listening to papers presented by participants. Rather, we will ask a selected number of participants to present their work as an introduction to discussion sessions where, we hope, everyone will give their views on the issues covered. To help with this objective of dissemination, all those wishing to attend the workshop should submit, by 16th March, a 1-2 page position paper discussing either their CM problems, their practical experiences or their work in this area. This should be submitted on paper or electronically in either ASCII or Postscript to Ian. For more information and a preliminary program see http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/is/SCM6.html For information on ICSE18, see http://www.gmd.de/Events/ICSE18/ Prof. Ian Sommerville Phone: +44 1524 593795 Computing Dept., Fax: +44 1524 593608 Lancaster University, E-mail: is@comp.lancs.ac.uk LANCASTER LA1 4YR, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 1 Mar 1996 12:40:31 -0600 From: hinchey@homer.njit.edu (Michael Hinchey) Subject: CFP: ICECCS'96 Call for Papers Second IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems Held jointly with 6th CSESAW, 4th IEEE RTAW Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 21-25, 1996 Complex computer systems are becoming common in many sectors, such as manufacturing, communications, defense, transportation, aerospace, hazardous environments, energy, and health care. These systems frequently include distributed, heterogeneous networks, and are driven by requirements on performance, real-time behavior, fault tolerance, security, adaptability, development time and cost, long life concerns, and other areas. Such requirements frequently conflict, and satisfaction of these requirements requires managing the tradeoffs among them during system development and throughout the entire system life. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts from these various disciplines, to determine how the disciplines' problems and solution techniques interact within the whole system. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transition experts are all welcome. Long-term research, near-term complex system requirements and promising tools, and existing complex systems and commercially available tools will be examined on a level playing field. Deadline for submissions is by April 15th, 1996. 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