Workshop on Software Engineering Education, FCI, June, 3rd 2007

Workshop on Software Engineering Education in Egypt

Challenges and Opportunities

June 3, 2007,

Seminar Hall,

 Faculty of
Computers and Information,

Cairo University

The Faculty of Computers and
Information at Cairo University,  the Information Technology Industry
Development Agency (ITIDA), and its subsidiary the Software Engineering
Competence Center (SECC), are pleased to invite you to participate in a
workshop at Cairo
University on software
engineering education. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together experts
from industry and academia to discuss and debate the challenges and opportunities
in software engineering education and determine specifications needed to
establish the first 4-year undergraduate program in Egypt that leads to a Bachelor of Science
degree in software engineering. This program will be established in cooperation
with local and international universities and SECC. The following guests from
the United States
will participate in the workshop.

1. Dean Jorge L. Díaz-Herrera, Dean of the B. Thomas
   Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of
   Technology,
2. Professor Hany Ammar, West Virginia University

The ultimate goal of the
workshop is to highlight a well integrated, internationally recognized software
engineering curriculum that considers academic mandates of Egyptian
universities, with an open eye on local, regional, and international industry
needs and preceding international experiences.  The Workshop will focus on the following three
topics:

1.      
Program
pre-requisites, included courses, and educational mandates

2.      
Management
infrastructure,

3.      
Mandates
and methodologies for program and course update to include state-of-the-art as
well as state-of-the-practice software engineering technologies

The schedule for the workshop
will be as follows

     9:30-10:00  Arrival and Registration

    10:00-10:15
Welcome, Eng.
M. Omran, Dr. A.A. Fahmy

    10:10-11:15 Experiences and Examples of
software engineering programs,

Dean Jorge L. Díaz-Herrera

    11:10
-12:00 Software Engineering Education,  Hany Ammar

    12:00-12:30
Coffee break

    12:30-13:00
Challenges and and opportunities in software engineering education

Dr. Gamal M. Aly, SECC

   13:00-13:30
The industry view of software engineering education, Dr. Ihab Omran, ITSoft

   13:30-14:30
Panel Disscussion: The educational and managerial challenges of

undergraduate
education in software engineering, moderated by Dean Jorge L. Díaz-Herrera
and Dr. Amr Kamel

   14:30-15:30
Lunch