VIII Software Engineering Education Forum (FEES 2015)

part of Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

Belo Horizonte – MG – Brazil

Software engineering education traditionally occurs in computer science and engineering courses but has expanded to technological courses, bachelor degrees, residences programs, professional master programs and corporate training. All these different forms of educational processes require guidance from both academia and industry and has been supported and leveraged by efforts from various computing institutions and scientific societies. The ACM and IEEE Software Engineering Curriculum Guidelines SE2004 (http://sites.computer.org/ccse/) emerged from one of these efforts and provide guidance to academic institutions to define their undergraduate courses. The SWEBOK is another example aiming to describe the widely accepted knowledge about software engineering.

In Brazil, some bachelor degrees in Software Engineering were created in recent years. This scenario motivates educators, researchers and students to exchange their experiences and knowledge about teaching and learning in Software Engineering.

The Software Engineering Education Forum (FEES) aims to be a place and a time where, through publications, presentations, panels and experience reports, the Brazilian community think over on how to go forward in the teaching and learning processes in the Brazilian context.

The FEES 2015 has several motivations and important challenges, among which we highlight:

• What are the curricular guidelines for a Bachelor in Software Engineering?
• What is the software professional profile in the Brazilian industry?
• How to train professionals for a globalized world?
• How to deal with the rapid technological developments and how this affects the structures and curriculum components?
• How to introduce the paradigms of "design thinking", "engineering thinking" “system thinking " in the context of computing and software engineering?
• How to apply long terms practices with large teams in software engineering courses?
• How to teach in a small scale what is only relevant on a large scale?

PROGRAM

CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite everyone (teachers, researchers and students) to submit their work as technical articles (full or short).

The topics of interest FEES 2015 include, but are not limited to:

• Knowledge and professional skills in Software Engineering
• Software Engineering in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Information Technology and others curricula
• Curriculum components in Software Engineering
• Integration of practical experiences in software engineering education
• Corporate training in Software Engineering
• Collaboration between the software industry and academia
• Teaching methods, techniques and tools for software development
• Tools, simulators and games to support teaching in Software Engineering
• Teaching and learning experiences
• Students behavior and motivation
• Software Engineering education in a globalized world
• Certification Programs

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION:

Papers can be written in Portuguese or English. English works are strongly encouraged to developments in the international context, in accordance with the contributions obtained in FEES. The page limits, including all figures and references, depend on the type of article.

The "full papers" should contain no more than 12 pages, presenting the results and conclusions, in accordance with established research methods. Contributions submitted to this category of articles should has scientific methods and be in an advanced stage.

The "short papers" should contain no more than 6 pages presenting relevant contributions and promoting discussions; however, they do not need to be a complete research and they can be in the early stages. The results may still need an adequate evaluation. Experience reports are about facts or experiments in teaching-learning environments are welcome.

All submissions must be in Portable Document Format (PDF) and follow the SBC conference format available in http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=195&task=view.download&catid=32&cid=38. Articles / entries must be submitted electronically using JEMS SBC: https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/.

REVIEW PROCESS

All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the program committee with regard to: originality, relevance, technical consistency, clarity and presentation.

The acceptance of the paper implies that at least one of the authors registers to the CBSoft for presentation in FEES.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: 06/29/2015  07/03/2015 (23:55 GMT)

Authors of notification: 07/23/2015

Final Version of the Article: 08/04/2015

FURTHER INFORMATION

In the FEES 2015 there will be a section that will discuss the ongoing refinements of skills and competencies of graduates of software engineering courses, conducted by several working groups and coordinated by Prof. Daltro Nunes (UFRGS). This work was drawn up in 2013 and also in FEES 2014, and FEES2015 is the last opportunity for adjustments in refinements.

There will also be a panel where we will discuss proposals and ideas in ways of conduction projects on interaction with the community in the software engineering context. The goal is to have the participants in this workshop, as well as professionals, graduate and undergraduate students so that they bring the vision from the perspective of the student.

CHAIRS

Ingrid Nunes (UFRGS) - ingridnunes@inf.ufrgs.br

Jair Leite (UFRN) - jair@dimap.ufrn.br

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

Ana Paula Terra (PUC-RS)
Ana Regina Rocha (COPPE/UFRJ)
Christina Chavez (UFBA)
Claudia Werner (COPPE/UFRJ)
Daltro Nunes (UFRGS)
Edmundo Spoto, UFG
Eduardo Almeida (UFBA)
Eduardo Figueiredo (UFMG)
Ellen Francine Barbosa (ICMC-USP)
Francisco Dantas (UERN)
Heitor Costa (UFLA)
Leila Ribeiro (UFRGS)
Marcelo Yamaguti (PUC-RS)
Marcelo Pimenta (UFRGS)
Marcelo Werneck (PUC-Minas)
Marco Aurélio Graciotto, UFTPR
Marco A. Wehrmeister, UFTPR
Maurício Aniche (USP)
Milene Serrano (UnB)
Paulo Meirelles (UnB)
Rafael Prikladnicki (PUCRS)
Regina Braga (UFJF)
Rodolfo Resende (UFMG)
Rodrigo Quites Reis (UFPA)
Sandro Andrade (IFBA)
Simone Barbosa (PUC-Rio)
Tayana Conte (UFAM)
Thais Batista (UFRN)
Thiago Souto Mendes (IFBA/UFBA)
Uirá Kulesza (UFRN)
Valter Camargo (UFSCar)
Vera Werneck (UERJ)