An Undergraduate Systems Development Laboratory

这个项目为计算机专业的学生提供了一个动手系统开发环境，学习如何快速开发高质量的应用系统。 通过这一项目，正在建立一个系统开发实验室，配备计算机辅助软件工程工具、目标工具、项目管理和评估工具以及在16个联网工作站上的Lotus Notes群件环境。 这些工作站配置有这些系统开发工具，信息系统专业人员使用这些工具来构建和维护应用系统。 两个系统课程，题为系统分析和设计I和II，使用新的实验室。 此外，这个实验室正在成为数据库管理课程和对象技术课程的一个组成部分，预计将被添加到CIS课程。 在第一个系统课程中，学生将学习支持过程建模、数据建模和事件建模的集成CASE工具。 在第二门课程中，重点是使用James Martin的RAD（快速应用程序开发）方法从头到尾构建应用程序。 RAD需要一个计算机支持的房间来进行JRP（联合需求规划）和JAD（联合应用程序设计）会议，一个集成的CASE工具，可以从设计规范自动生成代码，以及一个促进团队合作的网络环境。 通过这些真实的开发经验，学生获得的技能和知识，通常是通过在一个成熟的软件开发环境中工作获得。

This project provides computer majors a hands-on systems development environment for learning how quality application systems are developed rapidly. Through this project, a systems development laboratory, equipped with computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools, object tools, project management and estimation tools, and a Lotus Notes groupware environment on sixteen networked workstations, is being established. The workstations are configured with these systems development tools that information systems professionals use for the construction and maintenance of application systems. Two systems courses, titled Systems Analysis and Design I and II, use the new laboratory. Also, this lab is becoming an integral part of the database management course and a course on object technology that is expected to be added to the CIS curriculum. In the first systems course, students learn an integrated CASE tool that supports process modeling, data modeling, and event modeling. In the second course, the focus is on building an application from start to finish using James Martin's RAD (Rapid Applications Development) methodology. RAD requires a computer-supported room to conduct JRP (Joint Requirements Planning) and JAD (Joint Application Design) sessions, an integrated CASE tool that automatically generates code from design specifications, and a networked environment that facilitates teamwork. Through these realistic development experiences, students gain the skills and knowledge that is usually acquired through working in a matured software development environment.