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Software Engineering Education Research

Overview

Acquisition and Ecommerce


Analysis and Testing


Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Configuration Management
Education
Environments
Games, Virtual Worlds, and Interactive Technologies
Human-Computer Interaction
Hypermedia
Information Visualization
Internet-scale Event Notification
Open Source Software
Privacy and Security
Software Architecture
Software Understanding
Web Technologies

UCI research in software engineering education focuses on the application and adaptation of simulation game technology, such as SimCity or The Sims, to the classroom. Complementing traditional software engineering teaching practices that are heavily focused towards projects, we are designing a simulation environment in which students play to study and learn software engineering. Specific goals of this research are to introduce to students decision making, tradeoff analysis, and an overall view of software engineering and its fundamental laws..

Faculty

André van der Hoek

Projects

SimSE - Aims to create an environment in which real-world software engineering experiences can be simulated.

Problems and Programmers - An educational software engineering card game.