1. Is Integration of Communication and Technical Instruction Across the SE Curriculum a Viable Strategy for Improving the Real World Communication Abilities of Software Engineering Graduates?
http://cpath.csi.muohio.edu
MladenVouk
NCSU
Janet E. Burge
Paul V. Anderson
Miami University
Andrew Begel
Microsoft Research
Gerald C. Gannod
Moderator
This work was funded by NSF CPATH-II Award CCF-0939122.Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

2. I have people skills
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3. Audience: What do you think communication in CS and SE means?
4. Project: http://cpath.csi.muohio.edu
Developing communication course outcomes and assignments for 6 courses:
CS1, CS2, Data Structures, Software Engineering, Databases, Capstone/Senior Design
Participants from 14 institutions with Miami and NCSU as lead
CS and Software Engineering Faculty
Communication Across the Curriculum Faculty
Industrial participants
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5. The Panelists
Three different perspectives on the project:
CS/SE Faculty (Burge, Vouk)
Communication Across the Curriculum Faculty (Anderson)
Industrial Partner/Participant (Begel)
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6. Format
2-3 minute introduction by each of the panelists
Prepared Questions
Questions from audience
Twitter hashtag: #cseet2011p2
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7. What communication skills are do we expect graduates to possess?
(Audience?)
8. How are we doing this?
(Audience: What have you tried?)
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9. What are the roles of the different participants?
(Audience: Are we missing any important constituents?)
10. What do the assignments look like?
(Audience: Is this sufficient for you to get started?)
11. Audience: Do you see any pitfalls?
What has make this difficult?
12. How are we preparing faculty?
(Audience: What kind of training would you expect to receive?)
13. How do the participants feel about the project?
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15. Are we doing the right thing?
(Audience: What might the alternatives be?)
16. How are we evaluating success?
(Audience: What would drive you towards using our materials?)
17. Is there something that we havent thought of?
(Audience?)