TY - GEN
T1 - How Well Does Undergraduate Education Prepare Software Engineers? Perspectives of Practitioners in Bangladesh
AU - Hussain, Ishtiaque
AU - Hasan, Ahmed Shamim
AU - Yasir, Rafed Muhammad
AU - Kabir, Ahmedul
AU - Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque
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© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/11
Y1 - 2020/11
N2 - While the sole purpose of undergraduate education is not to prepare the students for the industry, it is certainly one of its important objectives. In this work, we investigate how well the Bangladeshi software and IT-related undergraduate education prepares the students for the software industry. We conducted semi-structured interviews of twenty practitioners from the Bangladeshi software industry. During the interviews, these practitioners provided commentary on where they believe the undergraduate education system falls short, and provided their suggestions for improvement. Based on the themes discovered from the interviews, we created a survey where more than two hundred practitioners participated. The results of our work suggest that most of the practitioners believe that, while some aspects of the undergraduate education are fine, the undergraduate education system leaves its graduates largely unprepared for the software industry. In this paper, we summarize and present the practitioners' opinions on some key areas including but not limited to updating of syllabi, internships as part of the curricula, the nature, length and evaluation process of undergraduate projects, pedagogical issues, and academic practices.
AB - While the sole purpose of undergraduate education is not to prepare the students for the industry, it is certainly one of its important objectives. In this work, we investigate how well the Bangladeshi software and IT-related undergraduate education prepares the students for the software industry. We conducted semi-structured interviews of twenty practitioners from the Bangladeshi software industry. During the interviews, these practitioners provided commentary on where they believe the undergraduate education system falls short, and provided their suggestions for improvement. Based on the themes discovered from the interviews, we created a survey where more than two hundred practitioners participated. The results of our work suggest that most of the practitioners believe that, while some aspects of the undergraduate education are fine, the undergraduate education system leaves its graduates largely unprepared for the software industry. In this paper, we summarize and present the practitioners' opinions on some key areas including but not limited to updating of syllabi, internships as part of the curricula, the nature, length and evaluation process of undergraduate projects, pedagogical issues, and academic practices.
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U2 - 10.1109/CSEET49119.2020.9206232
DO - 10.1109/CSEET49119.2020.9206232
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85097643760
T3 - 2020 IEEE 32nd Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2020
SP - 134
EP - 143
BT - 2020 IEEE 32nd Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2020
A2 - Daun, Marian
A2 - Hochmuller, Elke
A2 - Krusche, Stephan
A2 - Brugge, Bernd
A2 - Tenbergen, Bastian
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 32nd IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2020
Y2 - 9 November 2020 through 12 November 2020
ER -