PITTSBURGH, July 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Software
Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon
University will hold the 17th Software
Engineering Workshop for Educators from August 4-6. Each year, the SEI holds the workshop
to foster an ongoing exchange of ideas among educators of software
engineering, as part of its mission to transition its expertise and
support science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
education. Any accredited, college-level educator is invited to
register for the free-of-charge event. Registrants must provide a
letter from their institution stating they are active educators in
software engineering, computer science, or a related field.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's workshop will be held
virtually. The SEI's Director of the Software Solutions Division
Anita Carleton will give an opening
talk about defining a national agenda for software engineering
research and development.
The first two days of the workshop will feature training in the
field of software engineering for machine learning, by the SEI's
Grace Lewis, and quantum computing,
by Carnegie Mellon University's
Len Bass and the SEI's Daniel Justice. "Quantum computing is being
applied to computationally challenging software engineering
problems, including machine learning and verifying increasingly
complex software systems," said Robert
Nord, a senior member of the technical staff at the SEI and
one of the workshop's facilitators. "Educators will have the
opportunity to learn about this topic from the Carnegie Mellon University curriculum and SEI
experience."
On day three, educators Martin
Barrett, of Carnegie Mellon
University, and Shawn Bohner
and Stephen Chenoweth, both of
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology,
will lead an interactive session on remote education during the
COVID-19 pandemic. "Steve, Shawn, and Marty have been attending the
workshop since the beginning and have a huge amount of teaching
experience," said Lewis, a principal researcher, lead of the
Tactical and AI-enabled Systems (TAS) initiative, and the
workshop's other facilitator. "COVID-19 completely changed their
approach to teaching, but they were able to leverage all their
experience and want to share with other educators the techniques
that worked and didn't work."
To learn more about the workshop, visit
https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/news-events/events/software-engineering-workshop/.
Register to attend at
https://17th-sweng-workshop-for-educators.eventbrite.com/.
About the Carnegie Mellon
University Software Engineering Institute
The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded
research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Department of
Defense and operated by Carnegie Mellon
University. The SEI works with organizations to make
measurable improvements in their software engineering capabilities
by providing technical leadership to advance the practice of
software engineering. The CERT Division of the SEI is the world's
leading trusted authority dedicated to improving the security and
resilience of computer systems and networks and a national asset in
the field of cybersecurity. For more information, visit the SEI
website at http://www.sei.cmu.edu.
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