K.L. Modesitt (USA)
Consortium, industry, international software engineering education
Providing software engineering (SE) training and education on a global basis is a priority of several organizations. The primary markets are corporations wanting to develop reliable, robust, and useful software products in a timely and efficient fashion, but whose professionals do not currently have state-of-the-art knowledge or skills. As a response, the author instigated the International Software Engineering University Consortium ISEUC in 2000. Other "players" include individual universities, university consortia, ACM, IEEE, U.S. Department of Defense and book publishers. ISEUC is a worldwide consortium of universities designed to provide SE courses via distributed learning, primarily using the Internet. ISEUC is a subset of 35 responders from a SE survey funded in 1999 by ACM and IEEE-CS, and was slated to begin initial operations in September 2002, based on the results of visits to Australia, Canada, the U.K., and the U.S.A. This paper gives a description of ISEUC, comparing it with other entities. Also discussed is whether ISEUC is too early, too late, or "just in-time." ISEUC details appear at www.ipfw.edu/sesurvey.
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