NDLI: Preparing Software Engineering Graduates for an Industry Career

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Karunasekera, S. Bedse, K.
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: Univ. of Melbourne, Parkville (Karunasekera, S.; Bedse, K.)
Abstract	The lack of preparedness of software engineering (SE) graduates for a professional career is a common complaint raised by industry practitioners. The career progression of many new graduates is severely impacted due to the lack of well rounded skills. For example, some of the technically stronger graduates lack communication and managerial skills and vise versa. Industry based capstone projects, incorporated as a part of an undergraduate degree, are a well accepted means of preparing students for their professional careers. Software Engineering undergraduates at the University of Melbourne engage in such industry based projects both in the penultimate and final years of their degree. Though aimed at providing students a real-life SE experience and preparing them for industry, we observed these projects to fail in some cases in giving the necessary breadth of skills. We believe this failure to be due to the lack of an objective framework to guide student learning outcomes during projects. To address this problem we developed an objective skill-based framework, focusing on managerial, engineering and personal skills. In this paper we present this framework and share our experiences of using it.
Starting Page	97
Ending Page	106
File Size	108025
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769528937
ISSN	10930175
DOI	10.1109/CSEET.2007.39
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-07-03
Publisher Place	Ireland
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software engineering Computer industry Engineering profession Computer science Engineering management Australia Application software Programming Team working Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
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3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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