NDLI: Engineering design for software: on defining the software engineering profession

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Diaz-Herrera, J.L.
Copyright Year	2001
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Comput. & Software Eng., Southern Polytech. State Univ., Marietta, GA, USA (Diaz-Herrera, J.L.)
Abstract	Since the mid-1980s, software engineering has been accepted as a formal field of study in academia. Software engineering education is maturing from specialized courses in computer science, to numerous Master's programs, and more recently to the advent of undergraduate as well as PhD programs. What is new today is the widespread impetus from many fronts to consider software development as engineering profession. The notion of whether software development is engineering can be answered in a number of ways. In this paper, the authors look at generally accepted definitions of engineering and show their correspondence or applicability to software development. They demonstrate through a detailed analysis how prominent features that cut across all engineering disciplines are found in software engineering as well. They conclude with a discussion of the educational implications.
Sponsorship	IEEE Educ. Soc.
File Size	716896
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780366697
ISSN	01905848
DOI	10.1109/FIE.2001.963880
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2001-10-10
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Design engineering Software design Software engineering Programming Computer science education Educational programs Computer science USA Councils Certification Engineering profession
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Computer Science Applications Software

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