Computer Engineering Graduates Research Articles

문서 지향적 프로세스에서의 SCRUM 프로젝트 적용: 실험 사례연구

This paper examines how a Computer Engineering Graduate student team ran their Advanced Software Engineering Capstone project using SCRUM. The environment provided contextual challenges in terms of the on-site customer and upfront requirements document, not uncommon in a document driven single-step methodology. The paper details the methodology and practices used to run the project, and reflects on some of the challenges faced by the members of a typical software team when transitioning to a SCRUM process. The paper concludes by evaluating the success of the techniques and practices compared to the Agile Manifesto and Henrik Kniberg's Scrum checklist. The project was undertaken at South Korea's Ajou University.

Stakeholder’s Program Evaluation and Review: Leading to the Enhancement of Computer Engineering Curricular Program

<p>As a response to the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU) recommendation that the University of the Immaculate Conception conduct a program evaluation to assess the relevance and effectiveness of its Computer Engineering (CpE) curriculum, this study was ventured into to draw out the significant insights of faculty, alumni industry practitioners, and upper-class students regarding their expectations of the said curriculum, to level up its content and instruction for competitiveness and efficacy. Employing a focus group discussion (FGD) involving 3 faculty members, 3 alumni industry practitioners, and 6 upperclass students from the CpE program, queries bordering on the relevance and responsiveness of the curriculum, expectations of the industry from CpE graduates, as well as the level of competence of these graduates, were addressed by the researchers. Findings revealed that majority of participants believed that a relevant curriculum is one that is responsive to the needs of the present times. Alumni industry practitioners pointed out the significant gap between theory and practice--- a missing link between vision and reality. This result implies strongly that the framework upon which the program was founded does not assure competence in application. On the other hand, the peripheral views of the students highlighted the inadequacies of instruction eclipsing the ideal nature of subject sequencing and evolution.</p>

STUDENT PERSPECTIVES ON GRADUATE ATTRIBUTES

This paper outlines a survey validation process and presents preliminary findings from a study of Civil and Electrical and Computer engineering graduate perspectives on their program with respect to the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) Engineering Graduate Attributes. The study’s research question was: What breadth and depth of knowledge, as specified by the Engineering Graduate Attributes, do undergraduate engineering students perceive they have achieved? This research is part of a larger research agenda in these departments in UBC engineering to collect data for the ongoing processes of curriculum improvement and CEAB accreditation. While the Civil and Electrical and Computer Engineering departments at UBC collaborated in this study, different survey instruments were produced for each context. This paper focuses primarily on the Civil Engineering Graduate Attributes Survey Tool.

The Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Hispanics have the highest growth rates among all groups in the U.S., yet they remain considerably underrepresented in computing careers and in the numbers who obtain advanced degrees. Hispanics constituted about 7% of undergraduate computer science and computer engineering graduates and 1% of doctoral graduates in 2007--2008. The small number of Hispanic faculty, combined with the lack of Hispanic role models and mentors, perpetuates a troublesome cycle of underrepresentation in STEM fields. In 2004, seven Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) formed the Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI) to consolidate their strengths, resources, and concerns with the aim of increasing the number of Hispanics who pursue and complete baccalaureate and advanced degrees in computing areas. To address barriers that hinder students from advancing, CAHSI defined a number of initiatives, based on programs that produced promising results at one or more institutions. These included the following: a CS-0 course that focuses on adoption of a three-unit pre-CS course that uses graphics and animation to engage and prepare students who have no prior experience in computing; a peer mentoring strategy that provides an active, collaborative learning experience for students while creating leadership roles for undergraduates; an undergraduate and graduate student research model that emphasizes the deliberate and intentional development of technical, team, and professional skills and knowledge required for research and cooperative work; and a mentoring framework for engaging undergraduates in experiences and activities that prepare them for graduate studies and onto the professoriate. CAHSI plays a critical role in evaluating, documenting, and disseminating effective practices that achieve its mission. This paper provides an overview of CAHSI initiatives and describes how each addresses causes of underrepresentation of Hispanics in computing. In addition, it describes the evaluation and assessment of the initiatives and presents the results that support CAHSI’s claim of their effectiveness.

SE2004: Recommendations for Undergraduate Software Engineering Curricula

The recommendations in Software Engineering 2004: Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Software Engineering, form a volume of the larger Computing Curriculum project of the IEEE-CS and ACM. SE2004 evolved from an analysis of desired student outcomes for a software engineering graduate as compared to those for computer science and computer engineering graduates. This survey of the recommendations summarizes the recommended Software Engineering Education Knowledge (SEEK), which outlines the knowledge that a software engineering undergraduate should learn while at university. The survey also summarizes a set of 19 guidelines prepared to help educators implement a software engineering program as well as the courses and a sample of the curriculum patterns that SE2004 proposes.This article is part of a special issue on Software Engineering Curriculum Development.

AI: What's in it for you? Career pointers that may lead the intelligent to artificial intelligence

The burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) is presenting today's electrical and computer engineering graduates with the challenge of giving computers the capacity to replicate human thought. Although the majority of artificial intelligence research and development projects are currently still situated in university laboratories, academics are increasingly venturing into the corporate sphere to accommodate industry's rapidly expanding use and development of AI/knowledge-based systems. With this influx of university researchers into industry and the expansion of artificial intelligence applications into the “real world,” the question emerges of how to attract undergraduates to pursue this rapidly expanding new area.