Welcome to SEENG 2021, the Third International Workshop on Software Engineering Education for the Next Generation!

SEENG 2021 will be held remotely. It will be an integral component of the Joint Track on Software Engineering Education and Training (JSEET) at the 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).

The workshop will be an interactive event intended to specifically support the JSEET’s theme of Educating the Next Generation of Software Engineers:

“Millennials and Generation Z have been dominating higher education programs for some time. In a decade, our classes will be hosting Generation Alpha. We have all noticed that these cohorts have unique needs and different learning styles, social behaviors, and skills. With their increasing mobility, our classes will become more and more diverse. Our students will become increasingly collaborative, socially aware, tech-savvy, multi-disciplinary, and interested in emerging technologies. How shall the software industry capitalize on the mix of qualities that the new breed of software engineers will possess? How shall software engineering educators effectively and equitably cater to the students’, society’s, and industry’s evolving and diverse interests while ensuring that the next generation of software engineers learn the timeless principles, have a firm grounding in both software engineering theory and practice, behave responsibly, and make a positive contribution to the society?” Perspectives of software engineering educators, but also students, recent graduates, employers, and representatives of STEM education from government and non-government organizations, should be heard to answer these questions and identify solutions.

Following the First International Workshop on Software Engineering Curricula for Millennials (SECM 2017) and Second International Workshop on Software Engineering Education for Millennials (SEEM 2018), our goal in this third edition is to continue to bring together main stakeholders to discuss the unique needs and challenges of software engineering education for the next generation. Building on its predecessor, the workshop will use a highly interactive format, structured around short presentations to generate discussion topics, an activity to select the most interesting topics, and structured breakout sessions to allow participants to address those topics.

For a summary of previous workshops and follow-up posts, check out se-edu.org.  We also invite you to join the Google discussion group SE-EDU.

The Call for Papers is available on the JSEET website, where we invite you to submit a position paper of maximum 4 pages containing a position statement, plus a single page with your profile and references.

We would love to see authors participate in both the main JSEET track and SEENG workshop. Hence we encourage authors to submit a paper (research, experience, idea, and tool paper) to the main JSEET track as well as a separate position paper to the SEENG workshop. Note that a position paper is different from the JSEET main track categories in that rather than simply describing the author’s research, experience, tool, or idea, it proposes a position based on the author’s work, ideas, and experience. The position statement and the author’s profile together should demonstrate the author’s potential to contribute to the workshop’s goals.