Laurie Williams North Carolina State University
A special one-day Academy for Software Engineering Educators & Trainers (henceforth referred to as the Academy will be offered on the day prior to the start of The Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T). The purpose of the Academy is to provide an opportunity for software engineering educators and trainers to learn from master instructors in a highly dynamic, hands-on, interactive environment. The Academy will provide a learning opportunity to PhD students who will be entering academic careers in the near term, new faculty members, and mid-career faculty members who are beginning to teach software engineering course(s). Subsequent to the Academy, Academy attendees will participate in CSEET conference sessions, providing further educational opportunity and exposing them to the software engineering education community and to integrating research and education in their careers. This purpose of this proposal is to seek funding for two US student and three US new faculty Academy attendees. Intellectual merit criteria. The attendees of the Academy will obtain essential knowledge on structuring software engineering courses. The students of Academy attendees will gain from the attendance of their instructor. Additionally, attendees will gain exposure to the software engineering education research community which will help them integrate research and education in the future. NSF is focusing on this integration. PI Williams is the program chair of the CSEET conference for 2006. She has been on the program committee for this conference in 2002, 2003, and 2005 and presented a keynote at CSEET 2005. The Academy is an innovative means of instructing and preparing new software engineering faculty. Students and new faculty interested in obtaining NSF funding for the Academy will apply for funding. The CSEET steering committee will chose five of these applications for funding. Students will submit receipts to be reimbursed. Necessary administrative resources for this project will be provided by North Carolina State University. Broad impact criteria The purpose of the academy is to improve attendee understanding of software engineering topics that are taught in university and industry courses. These activities promote teaching, training, and learning. In our selection process, we will focus on increasing the participation of women and underrepresented minorities. Additionally, we will focus on the selection of attendees from institution where alternative funding is less likely to be available. The Academy will enhance the infrastructure for new faculty to obtain guidance on teaching software engineering courses. Academy instructors will be encouraged to share resources (presentation slides, webcast) on the conference web site. Additionally, resources can be cross-posted on the Open Seminar for Software Engineering, a freely-available software engineering web resource. The Academy will prepare faculty for teaching software engineering courses. Society will benefit from having better prepared students who are taught by these faculty members.
