SWEPHD 2018: The 2018 Workshop on PhD Software Engineering Education: Challenges, Trends, and Programs St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University (SPbSTU) St. Petersburg, Russia, September 17, 2018 |
Conference website | http://www.swephd2018.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swephd2018 |
Abstract registration deadline | August 15, 2018 |
Submission deadline | August 15, 2018 |
Notice of Acceptance | August 29, 2018 |
The 2018 Workshop on PhD Software Engineering Education: Challenges, Trends, and Programs aims at bringing together scholars and educators to establish common ground on the topic. The main goal of the event is to spur discussion, exchange of ideas, and development of new ways of researching, teaching, and working on PhD level education in software engineering. The perspective is on current challenges, successful approaches, and novel ways of establishing cooperation.
The workshop is arranged at the St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University (SPbSTU) together with St. Petersburg State University (SPbSU) and partners in the Pathways to PhDs EU Erasmus+ program.
Submission Guidelines
All paper submissions must be in English, and they must not exceed six (6) pages in length, including references. Minimum length is five (5) pages. Submissions must follow the 2017 ACM two-column template for conference proceedings from https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template .
Papers must be submitted online via the EasyChair submission system. The first submitted version must be anonymised.
All papers must be original, not submitted to another venue, and will be subject to a standard conference-style blind peer review process.
List of Topics
- Experience reports and comparisons of PhD programs in software engineering
- Ways to establish cooperation networks on PhD education
- Approaches to educate researchers - how is it different from MSc. software engineering?
- Education and technological change
- PhD programs and education methods in software engineering
- Skills and needs for upcoming PhD researchers
- Collaborative, empirical and PBL -based teaching methods for software engineering at PhD level
- Submissions on additional topics consistent with the central themes of the conference are also welcome.
Publication
After the workshop, the workshop proceedings with accepted papers will be sent to the CEUR Workshop Proceedings, which is indexed by SCOPUS.
Venue
The workshop will be held in St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University on September 17th.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to chair@swephd2018.org . More information is available at http://www.swephd2018.org/ .