Publications

Papers

• "The Current State of Software Engineering Masters Degree Programs", by Arthur Pyster, Richard Turner, Devanandham Henry, Kahina Lasfer, and Lawrence Bernstein, presents the findings of a survey conducted by the EST on the current status of SwE Masters degree programs in the U.S.  This paper was presented at the 21st IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET) in April 2008.
• Arthur Pyster and Richard Turner, "The Gradaute Software Engineering Reference Curriculum: A Joint Industry, Government, and Acadaemic Project," SoftwareTech, Volume 11, No. 4, December 2008, pp 18-22.  The paper may be viewed here.
• Arthur Pyster, Richard Turner, Devanandham Henry, Kahina Lasfer, and Larry Bernstein, "Master's Degrees in Software Engineering:  an Analysis of 28 University Programs," IEEE Software, September/October 2009 (Vol. 26, No. 5), pp 94-101.  The abstract for this paper may be viewed here.

 Presentations

• "The Integrated Systems and Software Engineering Curriculum Project:  Creating a Reference Curriculum for Graduate Software Engineering Education", presented by Kristin Baldwin and Art Pyster.  This presentation discusses the upcoming iSSEc effort to develop a reference curriculum for software engineering that incorporates elements of systems engineering.  It was presented at the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Software Engineering Conference in October 2007.
• "A Graduate Software Engineering Reference Curriculum (GSwERC)", presented by Arthur Pyster.  This presentation provides an overview of GSwERC and the iSSEc Project.  It was presented at the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) annual conference in March 2008.
• "The Current State of Software Engineering Masters Degree Programs", presented by Richard Turner and Kahina Lasfer Pyster, at the 21st IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET) in April 2008.  
• "Graduate Software Engineering Reference Curriculum (GSwERC)", presented by Arthur Pyster.  This presentation provides an overview of GSwERC and the iSSEc Project, including the 2007 Survey of Graduate Software Engineering programs.  It was presented at the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Conference in June, 2008.
• "The Development and Current Status of a New Reference Curriculum for a Master's Degree in Software Engineering" presented by Deva Henry.  This presentation provides an overview of the GSwERC project and the comparison of several current programs to the GSwERC recommendations.  Presented at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Systems Engineering (APCOSE) in September 2008.
• "Educating the Next Generation of Software and Systems Engineers" by Dennis Frailey.  This presentation provides and overview of the GswERC project, comparisons of current programs to GSwERC, and a projection of the future of GSwERC through the publication of version 1.0 and possible governance structures on publication.  It was presented to the Raytheon Software Counsel in May 2009.

Panels

• "GSwE2009:  A New Set of Guidelines for Graduate Software Engineering Education".  Panel members:  Mark Ardis, Shawn Bohner, Dick Fairley, Massood Towhidnejad, Art Pyster.  A new set of curriculum guidelines for graduate software engineering education has recently been published. In this panel those guidelines and two supporting companion reports were presented to faculty interested in creating new programs or improving existing programs. Faculty who attended the panel learned how to use the recommended curriculum architecture to customize their programs to meet their needs.
• "Panel on Master's Programs in Software Engineering".  Panel chair:  Mehdi Jazayeri.  Panel members:  John Brackett, Ivica Crnkovic, Bertrand Meyer, Art Pyster, Tony Wasserman, and Mansour Zand.  Panel at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2010.