17-413: Software Engineering Reflection

Prerequisites

• Industry internship experience
• at least 8 full-time weeks in industrial setting
• integrated into a team, exposed to industry pressures
• may be in development, management, quality assurance, or other relevant positions
  

Requirements

• Attendance - 10%
• Attend the presentations of other 17-413 students
• Report - 50%
• Issue-focused reflection and analysis of some personal software engineering experience
• Requirements
• See the SE Ph.D. practicum requirements page
  
• Lots of good advice on this page
• Our requirements are the same but shorter in scope
• Scope: about 8-12 pages single-space, 11-point font, 1 inch margins, including figures and references
• Talk to me if you're going outside this
  
• Evaluated for writing skills (33%) and critical reflective content (67%)
• Must pass to pass the course
  
• Presentation - 25%
  
• 30-45 minute talk
• Evaluated for communication skills (33%) and critical reflective content (67%)
  
• Must pass to pass the course
• Process - 15%
• Putting in effort along the way
  

Resources

• See the SE Ph.D. Practicum Page
• Contains previous practicums written by SE Ph.D. students.  They are longer than yours need be, but the idea is the same.
• These practicums are CONFIDENTIAL - do not share outside of this class.  Do not give the URL to the page or access information to anyone outside this class.  Your practicum report will be confidential as well, so respect the confidentiality of others.

Schedule

Late Policy

• 5 free late days
• Excuses for true personal emergencies.  Being busy in another course is not an excuse; that's what your free days are for.
  
• Beyond your free days, 1% penalty on final course grade per day (or fraction) late on any assignment.  Procrastination is really bad when you are writing something big, so don't do it.  Grading thresholds are standard: 90-80-70-60.
  
• I must have 2 days to grade your final report; anything turned in past 5pm on December 15 will not be graded, because grades are due on December 17.

Last year's schedule (going away soon...)

• Tuesday, Sept. 9, 5pm - proposal due
  
• Report/Presentation Title
• Author (your name)
  
• Abstract
• One-paragraph summary of the point of your report
  
• Brain dump of experience
• 1 page total
• List the points you want to make, and cite experience you want to discuss that supports that point
• Schedule an individual meeting with me the week of Sept 8-12 to discuss your report
• One week before your presentation in SSSG
  
• A complete draft of your slides (or other visuals) for your talk
• Schedule an individual meeting with me the week before your talk to discuss your presentation
• Tuesday, Sept. 23, 5pm - initial outline due
• Should show the paper structure, the major points you want to make, and one or more supporting experiences for each point
  
• Schedule an individual meeting with me the week of Sept 22-26 to discuss
  
• Tuesday, Oct. 7, 5pm - detailed outline due
• This should have everything that will go into the paper
• Schedule an individual meeting with me the week of Oct 6-10 to discuss
• October 14 and 21 - 2 pages of text, and 4 pages of text, respectively
  
• Tuesday, Oct. 28, 5pm - first draft of paper due
• Schedule an individual meeting with me the week of Oct 27-31 to discuss
• Tuesday, Nov. 11, 5pm - polished draft of paper due
• This should be something you can submit for the course and expect to pass
• I will give you comments by November 18
  
• Tuesday, Dec. 2, 5pm - any required revisions should be made by now