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Rising to the Challenge: Using Business-Oriented Case Studies in Software Engineering Education
Turtle Bay, Hawaii April 19-April 21
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Janet Burge, Miami University
Douglas Troy, Miami University
Case studies are a common method for teaching professions such as law and business. At Miami University, we use case studies to teach software engineering by holding a "Senior Challenge" as part of our senior-level software engineering course. The goal is to give the students experience studying, analyzing, and proposing solutions to a real-life informationtechnology related business problem. The Challenge concludes with a presentation of their findings to a jury of industry professionals including some from the company that wrote the case. The Challenge is structured to teach the students how to analyze a business problem for business and technical objectives, how to describe and defend candidate solutions, and how to effectively present their findings both orally and in writing. This is a difficult project that provides students with experience working with real and significant information-technology problems and in understanding the business impact of their technical decisions.
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Janet Burge, Douglas Troy, "Rising to the Challenge: Using Business-Oriented Case Studies in Software Engineering Education," cseet, pp.43-50, 19th Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training (CSEET'06), 2006
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