An active/collaborative approach in teaching requirements engineering

Author

Rosc, Daniela

Author_Institution

Dept. of Software & Electr. Eng., Monmouth Univ., NJ, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Abstract

The requirements engineering (RE) course is a component of the curriculum for the Masters in Software Engineering (MSSE) program at Monmouth University. It has been the first software engineering program in New Jersey and one of the first in the nation. The RE course introduces students to the process, methods and tools specific to this area, and the corresponding software quality issues. The course is offered in a lecture and laboratory format. To reinforce the concepts learned, students actively participate in their learning as they play different roles for eliciting requirements, collaboratively improve the quality of their standard requirement documents or share their particular expertise with their teams when performing object-oriented analysis. This paper describes the current structure of the RE course and my experience related to the active/collaborative approaches in teaching it

Keywords

computer science education; educational courses; software quality; systems analysis; teaching; Monmouth University; active/collaborative approach; computer laboratory; concept reinforcement; expertise sharing; lectures; masters degree; object-oriented analysis; participatory learning; requirements elicitation; requirements engineering course; software engineering curriculum; software quality; standard requirement documents; student participation; teaching; Collaboration; Computer science; Design engineering; Design methodology; Education; Electrical engineering; Performance analysis; Software engineering; Software quality; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 2000. FIE 2000. 30th Annual

Conference_Location

Kansas City, MO

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6424-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2000.897606

Filename

897606