It all started with Russell s CprE 489 course. I wanted to try to communicate a networking protocol concept, but the textbook was not very good at it, he said. He suggested some software engineering techniques, and one of them sequence diagrams worked. As Russell pointed out, such a custom approach to each course is possible because software engineering shares so many common elements with engineering in general. Dan can related his expertise to all sorts of courses, he said.
Software engineering is a lot like other types of engineering in some basic ways.
Berleant and Russel hope that as word gets around, more instructors will be open to participating. We hope to really build this up and make it bigger, Berleant said. We want to influence ECpE curricula nationally and internationally.