SE'07 Proceedings of the 25th conference on IASTED International Multi-Conference: Software Engineering
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Most software engineering courses focus exclusively on the software developmentprocess, often referring to problems related to the complexity of software products andprocesses. In practice, however, many problems of a complex nature arise in whichsystem engineering and other engineering disciplines are important in the development ofsystems. In such cases software engineers may have difficulty in coping with the entireproblem, in the same way that engineers in other fields may have difficulty inunderstanding the software part. This suggests that the software engineering education oftoday is inadequate in certain respects. This paper presents a case study of a softwareengineering course and discusses the difficulty for computer science students tounderstand and to develop a system which also requires skills in engineering of a non-softwarenature.