Software engineering education: issues and alternatives
Annals of Software Engineering - Special issue on software engineering education
Achieving Balance in Software Engineering Curricula
SEEP '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Software Engineering: Education and Practice (SE:EP '96)
Role of professional associations in preparing, recruiting, and retaining computing professionals
Proceedings of the 49th SIGMIS annual conference on Computer personnel research
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Is the term “software engineering” a misnomer? That question has long been debated within the computer science, programming, and software engineering community. Naysayers point to the software activity's large trial-and-error component and its notable lack of solid intellectual and ethical underpinnings. On the affirmative side, ACM and the lEEE Computer Society recently joined forces to move software engineering toward professional status. Currently, software engineering is not one of the 36 engineering professions recognized and licensed in the United States. This situation is more serious than you might think, because 48 states have laws on their books that prohibit anyone who is not licensed from using the term “engineer” in describing his occupation and work