Working Group: Education

Many members develop, teach, and revise courses in Software Engineering for their universities on a regular basis. Educating our students in core software engineering principles is most important for addressing the urgent societal need for people with expertise in developing high-quality software.

The goal of this working group is to explore how software engineering education can be improved across all levels. We start by making an inventory of CS curricula across the country, focusing on the software engineering parts. From this overview similarities and differences can be compiled, and collaboration at the course level can be fostered (e.g. by sharing best practices in software engineering education).

Statements

The Education WG is made up of passionate educators who are eager to share their views and experiences with others. If you would like to get a better sense of our group’s perspectives, we encourage you to read through the statements from our members.

My research interests are functional programming languages in education, and advanced software technology concepts to support teaching and learning. My goal for this workgroup is to share best-practices and experiences for improving software engineering education in the Netherlands.

I am to implement my vision on education based on university-industry collaboration with LUdev and on a national level.

I am interested in software analysis and transformation which improve software quality and comprehension, and often focus on software languages, design and modelling aspects.

Making programming more accessible to deal with for end users, novice programmers, inexperienced students, and people with disabilities are what I am passionate about.

As we are increasingly reliant on software, the theories, techniques and tools for its engineering should become a key competence for graduates in computing sciences and beyond. I find this working group an excellent way for pushing software engineering education to the next level.

My objective is to implement a national-wide, shared infrastructure to join excellence in the academic provision with cutting-edge industrial collaborations, in the context of Software Engineering.

Members

• Fabiano Dalpiaz (Utrecht University) chair
• Vadim Zaytsev (University of Twente)
• Tom van Dijk (University of Twente)
• Andrea Capiluppi (University of Groningen)
• Ana Oprescu (University of Amsterdam)
• Annibale Panichella (Delft University of Technology)
• Alfons Laarman (Leiden University)
• Mazyar Seraj (Eindhoven University of Technology)
• Hieke Keuning (Utrecht University)

Former Members

• Bastiaan Heeren (Open Universiteit)
• Felienne Hermans (Leiden University)
• Jeroen Keiren (Eindhoven University of Technology)