基于可持续发展思想的软件工程专业课程设置

本文从可持续发展的软件开发类人才培养迫切需求的分析着手,通过对现有典型培训机构课程设置体系与高校计算机教育的不足与优势的分析,从而提出基于软件工程思想应用为核心的软件工程专业课程设置与教学方法改革.     

Software Engineering Education

Recent trends have led to the expanded use of digital computers in large complex system applications. The major burden of meeting the requirements for these systems has fallen on the flexibility of software. This has placed many demands on all areas associated with digital systems development. A significant impact has been on the development of software personnel required to develop and manage these complex systems. The purpose of this paper is to present a three level program for software education of executives, managers, and engineers which is being offered at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). The needs and approaches in satisfying software engineering education requirements are presented. Educational objectives for executives, managers, and engineers serve as the foundation of the curricula, courses, and topics presented.     

A Short Electrical Engineering Course for Freshmen

A twelve-hour, four-week course in electrical engineering for freshman students is described. The goals of the course are chosen so as to best help freshman engineering students to decide whether or not they should elect to enter the electrical engineering department in their sophomore year. In view of the shortness of time available in which to get this message across, a great deal of thought was put into the design of the course including the use of a live TV system that displays experimental observations, as they happen, to a large class.     

A Senior-Level Course in Hardware–Software Codesign

Modern electronic system design makes extensive use of programmable architectures, and requires designers to consider hardware and software jointly in their design. A senior-level course named Hardware/Software Codesign provides a practical introduction to these complex system design issues. The challenge is to bring a subject, which is traditionally covered as a graduate-level course, to senior undergraduate students without overly narrowing down the scope, and without turning the course into an ad-hoc design project. The course combines an incremental, structured overview of hardware/software codesign with practical assignments that emphasize key concepts. This paper reviews the motivations for this course, the curriculum, the lab materials and tools used, and the results of the first offering of the course in fall 2006.      

A Course in the Principles of Engineering for Freshmen

An engineering course for freshmen is described. The course begins with a discussion of the philosophy of preliminary design and then moves to certain "macroconcepts" used in the design process: These are: economics, energy, thermodynamics, information, human factors, and optimization. An important feature of the course is a weekly three-hour design laboratory in which the principles covered in lecture are applied to realistic engineering problems.     

A Cautionary Note on Checking Software Engineering Papers for Plagiarism

Several tools are marketed to the educational community for plagiarism detection and prevention. This article briefly contrasts the performance of two leading tools, TurnItIn and MyDropBox, in detecting submissions that were obviously plagiarized from articles published in IEEE journals. Both tools performed poorly because they do not compare submitted writings to publications in the IEEE database. Moreover, these tools do not cover the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) database or several others important for scholarly work in software engineering. Reports from these tools suggesting that a submission has ldquopassedrdquo can encourage false confidence in the integrity of a submitted writing. Additionally, students can submit drafts to determine the extent to which these tools detect plagiarism in their work. Because the tool samples the engineering professional literature narrowly, the student who chooses to plagiarize can use this tool to determine what plagiarism will be invisible to the faculty member. An appearance of successful plagiarism prevention may in fact reflect better training of students to avoid plagiarism detection.     

An Undergraduate Optical Engineering Course

An upper level undergraduate survey course in optical engineering is described. The goal of this course is to provide students with a working knowledge of optics and optical systems as applied to modern engineering problems.     

On Software Engineering Education: Experiences with the Software Hut Game

The Software Hut (a small software house) is a software engineering project in the form of a game, designed and used by J. J. Horning and D. B. Wortman at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada. This paper describes some of the problems that occurred when the present authors used projects based on the Software Hut with groups of final-year undergraduate students in two successive years at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England.     

An Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Design Course

This paper describes a two semester design course for senior electrical engineering students. Small individual project designs are pursued during the first semester in conjunction with lectures on design related topics. In the second semester, design teams each carry out a single project of a practical, real world nature. The course method and examples of typical projects are presented and discussed.     

电力工程计算机辅助制图专用软件的研究

本文研究了利用AUTOCAD软件开发电力工程电路微型计算机辅助制图专用软件的有关问题,主要有图形符号库的建立及屏幕菜单的编制等,并给出了绘图实例。电力工程电路图用微型计算机辅助制图有绘图迅速,图形清晰、美观,并符合国家标准等优点。     

An Assessment of the ECTS in Software Engineering: A Teaching Experience

Spain is currently implementing the regulatory modifications promulgated by the Declaration of Bologna, which should result in the updating of the structure of university degrees, and the inclusion of the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) methodology. In some Spanish universities, the experimental adoption of this methodology has been encouraged, with the aim of gaining experience which could be extrapolated to other qualifications and subjects when this system becomes compulsory, which is expected to be in 2008. This paper examines the teaching methodologies that follow the experimental introduction of the ECTS in the Technical Software Engineering degree course taught at the Higher Technical College of the University of Cordoba, Spain. Based on data gathered in three specific subjects during the first and third years, this paper defines the teaching strategies implemented in order to increase the active role of students during their learning. The utility of e-learning tools in this type of teaching is discussed and the academic results are compared with results obtained in previous years using more traditional teaching methodologies.      

A Modified Form of PSI Employed in an Introductory Electrical Engineering Course

An experimental teaching strategy was employed in a three-quarter introductory Electrical Engineering course. The system was designed to combine the best features of PSI (Proctoral System of Instruction, also known as the Keller Method) and the conventional system, in the context of engineering education. The most important feature is that it allows students to master every assigned problem and rewards them for that mastery. It was found that a very high percentage of students will take advantage of this opportunity. The percentage of students successfully completing the course was high-73%. The experiment was an exploratory one; no control group was employed. Therefore, the net pedagogical impact is not known. But it is known that the system is highly liked by students and is very good for morale.     

An Agile, Graduate, Software Studio Course

The value of a studio course in undergraduate software engineering programs is well documented. What is not as well understood is how to provide a relevant studio experience to working, seasoned professional software engineers as part of a Master's of Software Engineering (MSE) degree program. The challenge is that students' experiential diversity complicates the selection of projects that address different students' needs. Further, when the studio experience is compressed into 14 weeks, significant challenges are presented in controlling the process environment while providing a realistic and meaningful learning experience for part-time students. In this paper, a novel software studio course developed specifically for working, experienced professionals in an MSE program is described     

Rethinking the Introduction to an Engineering Course

The student consumerism movement along with rapidly changing professional demands and opportunities are forces which will require engineering departments or colleges to inform new students more fully of their educational programs and career opportunities. The introductory engineering course is a natural place to provide such a service and yet if the current literature on engineering education and college catalogs is any gauge, this course is under-utilized and ineffectively organized. This paper discusses ECE 0100, an Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering, which is currently being offered at Wayne State University. This course incorporates the educational philosophy and assumptions advocated by humanistic psychology and shows that such an approach naturally satisfies the information requirements created by student consumerism and changing professionsal needs.     

Learning through Writing in an Engineering Course

In the fall 1982 semester, engineering report writing was integrated into the structure of a junior-level electrical engineering course at Howard University. The required homework consisted of engineering reports instead of the traditional textbook problem sets. A follow-up analysis of grades on examinations, on reports, and in later courses showed that 1) student understanding of engineering subject matter was not compromised by the course structure; 2) writing skills improved over the course of the semester; and 3) the correlation of student writing skills to problem solving skills was approximately 0.5.     

谈高电压技术课程兼评外国教材

谈高等理工类学校中高电压技术课程的重要性,评介Kuffel E和ZaenglW S和编著的高电压工程等教科书。     

SPSS软件在工程质量控制中的应用

在质量控制的统计分析中 ,遇到的数据多且繁琐 ,用手工统计计算费时、费力。为此 ,试用了一种统计分析软件SPSS。该软件能够解决质量控制统计分析中的问题 ,并达到了计算快捷 ,处理数据准确的目的。通过使用确定混凝土配合比和判定混凝土强度的实例 ,证明了该软件可以达到以上目的。     

卡尔曼滤波算法工程化设计

卡尔曼滤波算法在近代的自动控制、航空航天、通讯、导航等诸多领域有非常广泛的应用。当我们在工程上用软件来实现时，要求该工程软件具有良好的可维护性和可读性，以及高度的可靠性和稳定性。本文将从软件工程的观点上，介绍如何采用面向对象程序设计的方法实现上述的目标。     

PKPM软件在电力工程中的应用

通过对两层框架顶层中柱顶受一个水平荷载这种典型情况用三种不同的方法,得到计算结果是有差异的这一事实,进行分析比较;目的就是要使结构设计人员在较短的时间里、准确确定在不同的荷载情况下,选用更合适的程序。以达到结构安全、可靠和有效节省工程投资的目的。     

电力工程造价软件的设计与开发

针对电力工程造价软件的特点，通过对系统的功能需求进行分析,对关键技术和实现方法进行论述,对通用电力工程造价软件的设计与开发提出了一种全新的设计思路。