An international requirements conference in Chicago!
7th International Requirements Engineering Education and Training Workshop (RE’12)
Monday 9/24/2012, held in conjunction with RE’12
RE Education and Training: Can Academia and Industry Learn Together?
Effective Requirements Engineering (RE) is increasingly recognized as a critical component in the success of software, product, service, and platform development projects. Although RE is traditionally rooted in software engineering, RE methods and practices are applicable across a variety of industrial disciplines. Practitioners ranging from business analysts through electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, interface designers, and many others find RE techniques invaluable.
As a result, university curricula in multiple fields are beginning to address RE skills as a foundational skill set within their disciplines. Furthermore, many industrial organizations are recognizing the need to develop RE related training programs as part of their ongoing process improvement initiatives.
Following the theme of RE’12, “Uncertainty,” RE’12 elicits papers and presentations that offer innovative strategies or proposals to address some of the challenges in RE Education and Training. Given the breadth of industrial disciplines where RE is relevant, how are academic institutions addressing questions of curriculum and evaluation? Within industry, how might RE education and training be offered to practitioners who may be quite proficient in their primary disciplines but find themselves less confident when they must specify requirements for a project or product?
In addition to topics related to curriculum development, innovative contributions related to pedagogical techniques for teaching RE skills are strongly encouraged. Submissions could take the form of experience reports or demonstrations of specific teaching techniques and training materials, in either industrial or academic contexts.
Papers will be accepted in the following formats:
Position papers (3-5 pages): Short papers stating the position of the author(s) on any of the topics within the scope of the workshop. For example, position papers could describe experiences with a particular method for teaching an RE related skill within an industrial context, or could describe an innovative approach to incorporating RE education into the degree curriculum. Position papers will be evaluated based on their potential for generating discussion, and on the originality of the positions expressed.
Full papers (8-10 pages): Full papers describing requirements engineering educational techniques, survey results, or experiential reports. For example, a full paper might describe a specific technique for teaching an RE skill and include a case study describing its implementation and evaluation of its effectiveness as well as lessons learnt. As another example, a full paper might describe a mature tool for supporting RE training.
Pedagogical activity papers (2-4 pages + supporting documentation): Pedagogical papers will describe a teaching activity and provide all of the materials needed to reproduce that activity in the classroom. Authors of full and position papers, plus anyone else interested in attending the workshop are encouraged to also submit a pedagogical activity. Teaching activities will be documented using a predefined format, and will focus on one or more RE skills, define target audience and learning goals, provide step-by-step guidelines for conducting the activity, include student hand-outs or associated slides, describe the context of the activity, and briefly comment on its prior use in the classroom.
For more information about REET, please visit the RE’12 website:
https://www.ecs.westminster.ac.uk/REET12.
ORGANIZERS
Joy Beatty, Vice President of Research, ArgonDigital (Austin, TX, USA)
Ljerka Beus-Dukic, Sr. Lecturer, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Westminster (London, UK)
Sarah Gregory, Sr. Platform Methodologist, Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA, USA)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Ian Alexander, Scenario Plus Ltd., UK
- Lucia Rapanotti, The Open University, UK
- Olly Gotel, Independent Researcher, USA
- Vincenzo Gervasi, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Italy
- Emmanuel Letier, University College of London, UK
- Dan Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Klaas Sikkel, University of Twente, Netherlands
- Anja Wever, Software Education, Australia
- Takako Nakatami, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Martin Mahaux, University of Belgium (FUNDP)
- Frank Houdek, Daimler Benz, Germany
- Samuel Fricker, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Beatrice Hwong, Siemens, USA
