Workplace Issues in an Undergraduate Software Engineering Course

This paper describes how the author integrates work culture issues into his undergraduate course in Software Engineering. This is a required course for all Computer Science majors in our program. At issue is how work culture impacts upon the quality of the products being created by Software Engineers. The course addresses work culture concerns such as: What kinds of work culture issues arise during a software project? How can conflicts be resolved? How can poor work environments be improved? Work culture issues arise pretty much throughout the course and this paper provides an overview of how that occurs.