Computing curricula-software engineering volume. SEEK development and review

Abstract

Summary form only given. In the fall of 1998, the Educational Activities Board of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM Education Board appointed representatives to a joint task force whose mission was to perform a major review of curriculum guidelines for undergraduate programs in computing. This activity, named Computing Curricula, and their corresponding final reports, which are listed as volumes II-V for the areas of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, and Information Systems, are in varying stages of completion. The effort to create the software engineering volume is referred to as Computing Curricula Software Engineering (CCSE). Development of the CCSE volume has been divided into two groups: an Education Knowledge Area Group and a Pedagogy Focus Group. The education knowledge area group is responsible for defining and documenting a software engineering education body of knowledge appropriate for guiding the development of undergraduate software engineering curricula. This body of knowledge is called the Software Engineering Education Knowledge or SEEK. The pedagogy focus group is responsible for using SEEK to formulate guidance for pedagogy as well as course and curriculum design to support undergraduate software engineering degree programs. The panel will report on the development process used and current status of the SEEK.