A short report on Tempus project

Zoran Budimac

Reminder

“Joint MSc Curriculum in Software Engineering”. On September 1, started the last year of the

project

Participants Faculties of Science, Novi Sad and Skopje Faculties of Electrical Engineering/Electronics,

Belgrade and Niš Berlin, Bilbao, and Leicester S. Stoyanov, I. Jurca

Curriculum

2 countries, 4 faculties, 2 kinds, 2 laws, reforms in motion...

Basically 3 semesters, 90 ECTS points 2 semesters of lectures + final work 4 of core modules (+1?) + 4 of optional modules

(+1?) Equally weighted 4 contact hours per week

Core modules Research methods (SE-C-01) Requirements engineering (SE-C-02) Architecture, design, and patterns (SE-C-

03) Software testing (SE-C-04) System integration (SE-C-05) Information system development process

(SE-C-06)

Optional modules Software evolution (SE-O-01) Component-based development (SE-O-02) Formal methods engineering (SE-O-03) Software engineering for critical systems (SE-O-04) Privacy, ethics, and social responsibilities (SE-O-05) Applied system thinking (SE-O-06) Business modelling (SE-O-07) E-business (SE-O-08) Business process re-engineering (SE-O-09) Service quality management (SE-O-10) Software engineering for database systems (SE-O-11) Advanced topics in software engineering (SE-O-12)

"Overall, we think that the contents and distribution of the curriculum are reasonably well adapted to the current needs of European software industry." (page 21);

"The Joint MSc Curriculum in Software Engineering comprises an ambitious and determined effort. We foresee that its implementation will allow many students to learn about current software engineering theory and practice and become competent members of the profession." (page 27);

European Software Institute

In fact…

Pretty extensive review (30 pages) Three kinds of suggestions

To clarify some aspects / pointsTo fill-in missing informationTwo substantial suggestions

Student can choose to be ‘soft’ ???

Another document (ECTS, detailed module

template)

Intentionally

Creation of teaching materials

Example

Adoption (variants)Institution

Department

Faculty University National accreditation

Novi Sad, Serbia

OK OK, March 2006

OK, April 2006

N/A

Belgrade, Serbia

OK OK, May 2006

N/A

Niš, Serbia

OK Expected in October 2006

Expected in November 2006

N/A

Skopje, Macedonia

OK OK, April 2006

Expected in September 2006

Lectures

February 2007 (November 2006?) Novi Sad Guest lecturers, crash courses Guest students Course work over the semester with local

staff (also using e-learning tools)

Dissemination

The usual activities ACM Informatics Education Europe

conference (Montpellier, Nov. 2006) TV coverage

→ Dissemination event, May 2007.