Academy for Software Engineering Educators and Trainers

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ABSTRACT0542681Laurie WilliamsNorth Carolina State UniversityA special one-day Academy for Software Engineering Educators & Trainers (henceforth referred to asthe Academy will be offered on the day prior to the start of The Conference on Software EngineeringEducation and Training (CSEE&T). The purpose of the Academy is to provide an opportunity for softwareengineering educators and trainers to learn from master instructors in a highly dynamic, hands-on,interactive environment. The Academy will provide a learning opportunity to PhD students who will beentering academic careers in the near term, new faculty members, and mid-career faculty members whoare beginning to teach software engineering course(s). Subsequent to the Academy, Academy attendeeswill participate in CSEET conference sessions, providing further educational opportunity and exposingthem to the software engineering education community and to integrating research and education in theircareers. This purpose of this proposal is to seek funding for two US student and three US new facultyAcademy attendees.Intellectual merit criteria. The attendees of the Academy will obtain essential knowledge on structuringsoftware engineering courses. The students of Academy attendees will gain from the attendance of theirinstructor. Additionally, attendees will gain exposure to the software engineering education researchcommunity which will help them integrate research and education in the future. NSF is focusing on thisintegration. PI Williams is the program chair of the CSEET conference for 2006. She has been on theprogram committee for this conference in 2002, 2003, and 2005 and presented a keynote at CSEET2005. The Academy is an innovative means of instructing and preparing new software engineeringfaculty. Students and new faculty interested in obtaining NSF funding for the Academy will apply forfunding. The CSEET steering committee will chose five of these applications for funding. Students willsubmit receipts to be reimbursed. Necessary administrative resources for this project will be provided byNorth Carolina State University.Broad impact criteria The purpose of the academy is to improve attendee understanding of softwareengineering topics that are taught in university and industry courses. These activities promote teaching,training, and learning. In our selection process, we will focus on increasing the participation of womenand underrepresented minorities. Additionally, we will focus on the selection of attendees from institutionwhere alternative funding is less likely to be available. The Academy will enhance the infrastructure fornew faculty to obtain guidance on teaching software engineering courses. Academy instructors will beencouraged to share resources (presentation slides, webcast) on the conference web site. Additionally,resources can be cross-posted on the Open Seminar for Software Engineering, a freely-availablesoftware engineering web resource. The Academy will prepare faculty for teaching software engineeringcourses. Society will benefit from having better prepared students who are taught by these facultymembers.