SECM 2017: 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering Curricula for Millennials Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 27, 2017 |
Conference website | http://secm2017.se-edu.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=secm2017 |
Submission deadline | January 29, 2017 |
Welcome to SECM 2017, the First International Workshop on Software Engineering Curricula for Millennials!
Millennials are defined as the demographic cohort following Generation X, born between early 1980s and early 2000s. We are already educating most of them. Many more are reaching adulthood, and college age, about now, and will soon be in our classrooms. Howe and Strauss (Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation, Vintage Books, New York, 2011), who are credited with coining the term, state that
“as a group, Millennials are unlike any other youth generation in living memory. They are more numerous, more affluent, better educated, and more technically diverse. More importantly, they are beginning to manifest a wide array of positive social habits that older Americans [sic] no longer associate with youth, including a new focus on teamwork, and achievement…”
Clearly, Strauss and Howe’s characterization is not specific to American students: it is universal.
Educating the new breed of software engineers is tough. Millennials have been dominating the higher education programs for some time. This cohort has specific needs, learning styles, and skills. As Howe and Strauss emphasized, they are diverse, collaborative, tech-savvy, and keenly interested in emerging technologies. Companies quickly adjust to the shifting landscape of the new workforce both by capitalizing on the strengths of Millennials and creating a culture that caters to their expectations and needs. But what about educators? How should software engineering curricula and educators’ teaching styles adapt to these changes? Perspectives of students, teachers, and prospective employees should be heard to answer this question and identify strategies that work. Our goal in this workshop is to bring together main stakeholders to discuss the challenges of software engineering education and curricula for Millennials. We invite you to participate.
SECM 2017 will be held at the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering in beautiful Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Saturday May 27, 2017.
Submission Guidelines
We are soliciting Research Papers, Experience Reports, and Position Papers for the International Workshop on Software Engineering Curricula for Millennials (SECM 2017), to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in conjunction with the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2017)
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- software engineering education for new and emerging technologies;
- novel approaches to designing software engineering curricula;
- needs and expectations of Millennials aspiring to be software engineers;
- skills and continuing education for software engineering educators;
- classroom formats that cater to diverse learning styles;
- teaching approaches that leverage technology-enhanced education in software engineering courses;
- balancing teaching of soft and hard skills
- balancing rigor and practicality;
- experience in educating the Millennials in a software engineering program;
- experience in being educated as a Millennial in a software engineering program;
- experiential and hands-on learning for software engineers;
- employees’ needs and expectations of fresh software engineering graduates in a fast changing software landscape; and
- gaps and challenge in professional graduate software engineering programs.
Submission Categories
- Research Papers, including case studies, are intended for original research results.
- Experience Reports should describe experiences experiences in training Millennials in software engineering courses or curricula in higher education or professional settings with a focus on insights and lessons learned. The experiences may be based on traditional, novel, or mixed pedagogical approaches, tools, technologies, techniques, or platforms.
- Position Papers may share the author’s insights or propose an original idea or an opinion from the student’s, employee’s or educator’s perspective. We welcome controversial topics and outside-the-box thinking. Position Papers should be single-authored and include the author’s brief biographical sketch. We will be looking for ability to clearly articulate ideas and evidence of willingness to actively participate in the workshop and contribute to workshop goals.
In all categories, we particularly encourage submissions from Millennial students. We are very interested in candid, first-hand accounts. Submissions from prospective employers of young software engineers are also welcome, focusing on industry perspective.
Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop Program Committee.
Page Limits
- Research Papers and Experience Reports: maximum seven pages
- Position Papers: maximum four pages
Submission Instructions
Submissions must be in English and follow the ICSE conference proceedings format as specified here. All submissions should be submitted electronically through the SECM2017 EasyChair online submission system. Review the submission guidelines at ICSE 2017 site. Papers, when properly formatted, must not exceed the size limits stated for the paper categories for the workshop.
Publication and Proceedings
All accepted contributions will be published in the ICSE 2017 Companion Proceedings and in both the ACM Digital Library and the IEEE Digital Library. The official publication date of the workshop proceedings is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2017. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
Committees
Program Committee
- Silvia Abrahão, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
- Leonor Barroca, The Open University, UK
- Tayana Conte, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil
- Daniela Damien, University of Victoria, Canada
- Stephen Edwards, Virginia Tech, USA
- Davide Falessi, California Polytechnic State University, USA
- Diego Fontdevila, Grupo Esfera, Argentina
- Juan Pablo Galeotti, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Marcela Genero, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
- Nicolas Guelfi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Emily Oh Navarro, University of California, Irvine, USA
- Carlos Mario Zapata Jaramillo, National University of Colombia, Colombia
- Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Timothy Lethbridge, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Mira Miroslawa Kajko Mattsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Eduardo Miranda, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Maria Augusta V. Nelson, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Nicolás Paez, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Nicolás Rosner, University of Santa Barbara, USA
- Marco Torchiano, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- Burak Turhan, University of Oulu, Finland
- Eray Tüzün, Havelsan, Turkey
Workshop Organizers
- Hakan Erdogmus, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Cécile Péraire, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to hakan.erdogmus -at- sv.cmu.edu