Norman E. Gibbs

The SEI education program: the challenge of teaching future software engineers

As the technical foundations of software production emerge, software engineers run the risk of obsolescence—now.

Software Engineering and Computer Science: The Impending Split?.

Abstract A tension is emerging in academia between those who view computing as a science and those who view computing as an emerging engineering discipline. By the year 2000, computing may separate into two academic disciplines, software engineering and computer science, paralleling the split of computer science from mathematics in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Educators must recognize the true needs of the practitioner community, or risk fragmenting and weakening the still new and rapidly evolving field of computing. Actions today will determine if computing will compete with or be subsumed by software engineering, rather than complement it.

Overview: Carnegie Mellon University master of software engineering program

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) decided to offer a professional master of software engineering (MSE) degree program beginning in the fall of 1989. The program is a joint effort between the School of Computer Science and the Software Engineering Institute (SEI).