Facilitating Entrepreneurial Experiences through a Software Engineering Project CourseSEET
Skills and competences in entrepreneurship have gained importance in engineering curricula. The ability to generate innovative ideas, to focus on the creation of value, and the ability and courage to engage stakeholders and society is not only relevant for students that launch startups, but play an ever-more important role in regular employment as well. In this case study paper, we report on how we have integrated entrepreneurial experiences into a software engineering project course and made the creation of customer value and reflection on the application of a structured process the heart and soul of the course. Based on current research on entrepreneurship education as well as the definition of entrepreneurship used by the European Union, we show how the learning objectives, the teaching moments, the integration of external stakeholders, and the assessment work together to create an entrepreneurial environment in which students are encouraged and rewarded to work in an entrepreneurial way. Based on data from reflection reports, course evaluations, and interviews we also discuss the challenges of such an approach and how the student perception and expectation often run counter to the motivations of our course design.
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11:00 - 12:30 | Industry-Relevant TeachingSoftware Engineering Education and Training / Posters at St-Paul / Ste-Catherine Chair(s): Ita Richardson Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick | ||
11:00 15mTalk | Walking through the Method Zoo: Does Higher Education really meet Software Industry Demands?SEET Software Engineering Education and Training Marco Kuhrmann University of Passau, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende Makerere University, Rolf-Helge Schneider Copenhagen Business School, Paolo Tell IT University of Copenhagen, Jil Klünder Leibniz Universität Hannover, Tayana Conte Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Stephen MacDonell Auckland University of Technology, Regina Hebig Chalmers University of Technology & University of Gothenburg | ||
11:15 6mPoster | Incorporating Real Projects into a Software Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum Posters Rafael Chanin PUCRS, Jorge Melegati Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Afonso Sales PUCRS, Mariana Detoni , Xiaofeng Wang Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Rafael Prikladnicki School of Technology at PUCRS University | ||
11:21 15mTalk | Collaborating with Industrial Customers in a Capstone Project Course: The Customers’ PerspectiveSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Maria Paasivaara IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark & Aalto University, Finland, Jari Vanhanen Aalto University, Casper Lassenius Aalto University, Finland and Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Norway | ||
11:36 10mTalk | Industry-Academy Collaboration in Teaching DevOps and Continuous Delivery to Software Engineering Students: Towards Improved Industrial Relevance in Higher EducationSEET Software Engineering Education and Training | ||
11:46 15mTalk | Facilitating Entrepreneurial Experiences through a Software Engineering Project CourseSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Håkan Burden Viktoria Swedish ICT, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Oskar Hagvall Svensson Chalmers University of Technology Pre-print | ||
12:01 29mTalk | Author Panel DiscussionSEET Software Engineering Education and Training |