European Conference on Software Engineering Education

Software Engineering (SE) is an important discipline and core part of almost all Computer Science curricula of universities. Challenges in today’s software development include increasing system complexity, short development cycles, shorter time to market, continuous change, and expected high quality of the software. The rapid and continuing growth of the software industry creates challenges for software engineering education. The emergence of software engineering as a relevant term in the discipline of computer and engineering education programs created significant challenges for educators. The European Conference on Software Engineering Education 2016 (ECSEE 2016) will give place and time for discussions on the following questions: Software engineering education has to deal with these challenges. How can students or employees be prepared to master these challenges? What are best practices to help them to work in different domains, ranging from app development for mobile devices to the development of really big applications for mainframe systems, from game development to working on highly secure systems? How can we support students in their student life-cycle and how can we prepare them for lifelong learning? How can we ensure that future software engineers meet industrial needs, with respect to technical as well as soft skills? The conference will be rounded off by three keynote contributions: • “On the Future of Educational Programming Environments – Ideas and Speculations”, Prof. Dr. Michael Kölling, School of Computing, University of Kent, in Canterbury, UK. • “What can we learn from Software Engineering for Courseware Production”, Prof. Dr. Carlos Delgado Kloos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. • “There is a System Out There! Software Education from Programming to Engineering”, Prof. Dr. Amir Tomer, Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel.