Undergraduate, graduate and professional education in software engineering in the ´90´s: a case study

The demands for graduate education in software engineering were clearly established in the late 1980´s. Now, several years later, the practical imperative has emerged that information technology graduates are increasingly required in their first positions to work in large teams, to use new and quite complex tools and environments, and to be able to communicate effectively in their work environments. There is therefore a need for significant studies in software engineering at the undergraduate level. The paper describes recent developments in software engineering education at the Queensland University of Technology at undergraduate, postgraduate and professional levels and examines the alignment of the undergraduate and postgraduate curricula with those proposed by the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Curriculum Task Force and the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University