An investigation of undergraduate software engineering curriculum: Iranian universities case study

Amiri, Amin Khodabandeh; Banari, Maria; Yousefnezhad, Narges

doi:10.1109/iccse.2011.6028720

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“…These Can Uncover Specific Needs Not Being Addressed. For Example, Research In The United Kingdom Found That Web-Based Programming Skills Were Of High Importance [7], Research With North Dakota State University's Employer Contacts Revealed The Need For Students To Do More Realistic Projects Before They Graduated [8], Research In Australia Highlighted The Need For More Business-Related Knowledge [9]. The Mismatch Between Identified Skills And University Curricula Has Aided In Identifying Opportunities For Improving Curricula By Creating, Expanding Or Reordering Courses [9,10].…”

Section: Motivated By Concern About the Ability Of Graduates To Succementioning

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A Survey of Employers’ Needs for Technical and Soft Skills Among New Graduates

Scaffidi¹

2018

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Motivated by concern about the ability of graduates to succeed in the workforce, universities frequently conduct surveys of local and regional employers, to understand those companies' expectations. These can uncover specific needs not being addressed. Following a similar line of inquiry, prior research at Oregon State University interviewed employers, with the aim of identifying skills of concern. The current paper takes this research another step further by presenting a survey-based study aimed at quantifying the prevalence and level of employers' desire for workers who have these identified skills. Although all skills were rated as moderately useful or better, most soft skills scored higher than most technical skills. Nonetheless, three technical skills (source code versioning, testing and agile methods) scored approximately as well as the soft skills; these three technical skills, like soft skills, were cross-cutting and applicable to more than one software development context. Further survey questions revealed that employers preferred that, to the extent that students focus on building technical skill, these learning experiences ideally should involve creating software that students can use as evidence of their qualifications.

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A Survey of Employers’ Needs for Technical and Soft Skills Among New Graduates

Scaffidi¹

2018

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“…Among the mostly related research in the third category of surveying company managers is: In 2011, Amiri and colleagues [9] stated that the SE curricula must be revised by the managers of software industry. In this research, SE curricula in Iran were presented to the software managers, and they were asked to choose it as essential or elective course, or it must be removed from the curriculum.…”

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Reducing the Gap between Software Engineering Curricula and Software Industry in Jordan

Hanna¹,

Jaber²,

Almasalmeh³

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Nowadays software is taking a very important role in almost all aspects of our daily lives which gave great importance to the study field of Software Engineering. However, most of the current Software Engineering graduates in Jordan lack the required knowledge and skills to join software industry because of many reasons. This research investigates these reasons by firstly analyzing more than 1000 software job listings in Jordanian and Gulf area e-recruitment services in order to discover the skills and knowledge areas that are mostly required by software industry in Jordan and the Gulf area, and secondly comparing these knowledge areas and skills with those provided by the Software Engineering curricula at the Jordanian Universities. The awareness of the Software Engineering students and academic staff of the concluded mostly required knowledge areas and skills is measured using two questionnaires. Recommendations to decrease the gap between Software Engineering academia and industry had also been taken from a sample of software companies' manager using a third questionnaire. The results of this research revealed that many important skills such as Web applications development are very poorly covered by Software engineering curricula and that many Software engineering students and academic staffs are not aware about many of the mostly needed skills to join industry.

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“…Three examples of potentially region-specific insights were (1) that a study of Australian employers noted a particular need for workers using information and communication technology to have more business acumen [9], (2) a study of North Dakota State University's employer contacts highlighted the potential benefit of giving students more project experience prior to graduation and employment as software developers [10], and (3) a study of knowledge gaps in the United Kingdom identified web-based programming as the top area of concern for software developers [11]. Comparing the needs to employers can then suggest opportunities related to creation, expansion and sequencing of courses in academic programs [12,13].…”

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An investigation of undergraduate software engineering curriculum: Iranian universities case study

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

A Survey of Employers’ Needs for Technical and Soft Skills Among New Graduates

A Survey of Employers’ Needs for Technical and Soft Skills Among New Graduates

Reducing the Gap between Software Engineering Curricula and Software Industry in Jordan

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