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Keynote Speaker - Natalia Juristo
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spain


Keynote: Undergraduate Software Engineering Education Options: Independent Programmes, Specialisations or Subjects

Saturday, 22nd March - 9:00

At the international level, there are now a range of alternatives for teaching software engineering (SE) in undergraduate programmes: pure SE programmes, computer science programmes offering a specialisation in SE with and without qualifications and computer science programmes including some SE subjects.

In this presentation, these alternatives are analysed, addressing aspects such as

  • the official restrictions and conditions to which programme establishment is subject in different countries, which can help explain why there are different educational alternatives in these countries.
  • the distribution of SE-related content in each of the programme types and the quantitative and qualitative differences there between them.
  • the different alternatives for teaching SE compared to the teaching of other scientific and engineering disciplines.

This comparative analysis highlights the differences between the European and US perspective and gives an understanding of the socio-political and cultural reasons why different undergraduate SE teaching options are now in place in different countries.


Brief Biographical Sketch

Dr. Natalia Juristo is a professor of software engineering in the Computer Science School at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, and since 1992 has been Director of the MSc in Software Engineering there. Dr. Juristo has a B.S. and a Ph.D. in Computing. She was a fellow of the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland in 1988, and a visiting staff member of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Italy in 1989 and 1990. During 1992 she was a resident affiliate of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. She was program chair for SEKE97 and general chair for SEKE01 and SNPD02. She has been guest editor of special issues in several journals, including the Journal of Software and Systems, Data and Knowledge Engineering and the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering Dr. Juristo has been member of several editorial boards, including IEEE Software and the Journal of Empirial Software Engineering. She is senior member of IEEE.