A short report on Tempus project

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A short report on Tempus project

• Zoran Budimac

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Reminder

• Joint MSc Curriculum in Software Engineering.
• On September 1, started the last year of the
  project
• Participants
• Faculties of Science, Novi Sad and Skopje
• Faculties of Electrical Engineering/Electronics,
  Belgrade and Niš
• Berlin, Bilbao, and Leicester
• S. Stoyanov, I. Jurca

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Curriculum

• 2 countries, 4 faculties, 2 kinds, 2 laws,
  reforms in motion...
• Basically
• 3 semesters, 90 ECTS points
• 2 semesters of lectures final work
• 4 of core modules (1?) 4 of optional modules
  (1?)
• Equally weighted
• 4 contact hours per week

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Core modules

• Research methods (SE-C-01)
• Requirements engineering (SE-C-02)
• Architecture, design, and patterns (SE-C-03)
• Software testing (SE-C-04)
• System integration (SE-C-05)
• Information system development process (SE-C-06)

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Optional modules

• Software evolution (SE-O-01)
• Component-based development (SE-O-02)
• Formal methods engineering (SE-O-03)
• Software engineering for critical systems
  (SE-O-04)
• Privacy, ethics, and social responsibilities
  (SE-O-05)
• Applied system thinking (SE-O-06)
• Business modelling (SE-O-07)
• E-business (SE-O-08)
• Business process re-engineering (SE-O-09)
• Service quality management (SE-O-10)
• Software engineering for database systems
  (SE-O-11)
• Advanced topics in software engineering (SE-O-12)

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European Software Institute

• "Overall, we think that the contents and
  distribution of the curriculum are reasonably
  well adapted to the current needs of European
  software industry." (page 21)
• "The Joint MSc Curriculum in Software Engineering
  comprises an ambitious and determined effort. We
  foresee that its implementation will allow many
  students to learn about current software
  engineering theory and practice and become
  competent members of the profession." (page 27)

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In fact
Another document (ECTS, detailed module template)

• Pretty extensive review (30 pages)
• Three kinds of suggestions
• To clarify some aspects / points
• To fill-in missing information
• Two substantial suggestions
• Student can choose to be soft
• ???

Intentionally
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Creation of teaching materials
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Example
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Adoption (variants)

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Lectures

• February 2007 (November 2006?)
• Novi Sad
• Guest lecturers, crash courses
• Guest students
• Course work over the semester with local staff
  (also using e-learning tools)

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Dissemination

• The usual activities
• ACM Informatics Education Europe conference
  (Montpellier, Nov. 2006)
• TV coverage
• ? Dissemination event, May 2007.