Complete thesis - Murdoch University

paper!Software Engineers with an interest in education are the target audience of the CSEETconferences (Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training). Armarego (2005)was addressed to this audience. One reviewer’s comments are:Acceptance: 5 Relevance: true Length of Content: true PracticalImpact: 5 Originality: 5 Correctness: 5 Technical Depth: 5Presentation: 5 Fixable: 5 Overall: 5 Positive Aspects: Anexcellent tutorial on problem based learning that accompaniesthe discussion of using PBL in software engineering. I found thepaper refreshingly candid in acknowledging the tension betweendiscipline and creativity - a tension that is all too oftenbrushed aside in engineering education. Negative Aspects: Thebibliography might have to be cut for space - we usually don’thave papers with 53 references. Still, this does provide auseful bibliography ...Within the Murdoch context, the funding gained to undertake the re-development of the unitrequired outcomes and findings to be disseminated, both in a formal report to the TLC andthrough the presentation of in-house seminars. These were completed during the latter partof 2003.The most critical review of the findings of this Cycle occurred in-house. By the middle ofsemester 2 of 2003, the Professor of Software Engineering, who was also Head of Engineeringfor the duration of this research, proposed that the model of learning applied in ENG260(and which had, to some extent, informed changes throughout the SE curriculum) becomethe basis for teaching in the final two years of all engineering programmes at Murdoch. Thefirst step to this decision-making process was to submit the data collected during this cycleto scrutiny. The Review Team included SE academics at Murdoch and adjunct academics.These were current practitioners of SE who took on both a teaching and advisory role withinthe discipline. The purpose of this review was to explore alternate readings for the data andidentify implications for other specialisations. This resulted in a proposal, drafted by theHead of Engineering and the researcher, to the School executive by the end of September2003. The impact of this proposal, which was accepted at a 2-day Planning Meeting at theend of November 2003, on this research are described in the next chapter.326