applications. In reality, some IT majors such as computer science and computer engineering receive the software engineering
education in a single course which is considered as a big challenged for the instructors and universities. Also, it requires
students to gain the most of practical experiences that simulate the real work in software companies. Furthermore, we have
noticed that there is no consensus on how, when and what to teach in that introductory course to gain the practical
experiences that are required by the software companies.Because all the software engineering disciplines will not fit in just one
course, the course needs a reasonable selection of topics. This raises an important question which is an essential one to ask:
Does this course have the ability to formulate a true software engineer that meets the needs of industry? This question
presents a big challenge in selecting the appropriate topics. So answering this question is very important for the next
undergraduate students. During teaching this course in the curricula, the feedback from undergraduate students and the key
notes of the annual meeting for an advisory committee from industrial side provide a probable answer for the proposed
question: it is impossible to build a true software engineer who possess all the essential elements of software engineering
education such as teamwork, communications skills, project management skills and contemporary industrial practice from one
course and it is impossible to have a course covering all software engineering topics. Besides the used teaching approach, the
author proposes implementing three supportive ways aiming for mitigating the expected risks and increasing the opportunity
to build a true software engineer.

عنوان المؤتمر

International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering Vol:3, No:1, 2016

دولة المؤتمر

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تاريخ المؤتمر

2 إبريل، 2016 - 1 إبريل، 2016

راعي المؤتمر

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