Call for Participation 10th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training Theme and topics You are invited to participate in the 10th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T) April 13-16, 1997, in Virginia Beach, Va. The theme of the conference is Transitions to the 21st Century. Educators, trainers, executives, managers, and administrators gather to exchange ideas about how to enhance software engineering training and education. The CSEE&T attracts international participation from industry, academe, and government. The purpose of the CSEE&T is to influence educational directions, stimulate new approaches, promote collaboration, and generate interactive exchanges among software engineering stakeholders. Government, business, and academe are changing rapidly as emerging technologies create possibilities that were unheard of ten years ago. New platforms have shifted the emphasis from centralized systems, to distributed environments, to the Internet. Advances in telecommunications and networking have changed the focus from proprietary systems to data and information. Satisfying customer requirements quickly and accurately within this framework of profound change has resulted in new software engineering approaches, methodologies, and tools. Education and training need to evolve to meet the challenges ahead. The question for the future is how and in what way we educate and train software engineers and their managers. Conference topics include The future of software . predictions for the future . the emergence of true artificial intelligence . technology challenges ahead . the changing role of software in business management . changes to the software engineering organization The software engineering profession . competencies that will be needed in the future . the impact of new life cycles, methodologies, and tools . the people side of software engineering The effects of change on software engineering curricula . software engineering education and the customer's voice . new education and training philosophies and paradigms . how to measure the return on investment from education and training . how to create a "learning" academic institution Innovative approaches for software engineering courses . cutting-edge programs in software engineering . examples of high-performing curricula . motivations for educators and trainers to explore new learning approaches . the Internet as a tool for educators and trainers Industry-academia collaboration . the current state of collaborative efforts . lessons learned from the collaborative model . examples of highly successful collaborations . how to measure the effect of collaboration on companies and communities . the effect of collaboration on software engineering education and training . how much collaboration is necessary Alternative delivery methods . new tools and techniques available to educators . the classroom setting versus learning online in the office or at home . comparative studies of different delivery methods Advanced training and education management methods . total quality management applied in an academic setting . how educators can be trained to be better teachers . the role of the student in education management . compensation and reward systems for educators . how to apply statistical process control to education . whether or not students are empowered to learn Submission guidelines and procedures We request papers and proposals for workshops, panel discussions, experience reports, and presentations. We welcome proposals for half- and full-day tutorials. We invite innovative suggestions for informal meetings, such as poster sessions or birds-of-a-feather sessions. Submissions should relate to the conference theme and topics, though this is not mandatory. Submit five copies of a paper or proposal. Put only the title and beginning text of the submission on the first page of a paper. Provide a separate cover sheet with title, all authors' names, affiliations, complete addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses. Accepted contributions will appear in the conference proceedings, published by IEEE. Important dates All submissions (papers, panels, workshops, presentations, experience reports, tutorials) are due by September 1, 1996. Notification of acceptance will be made by November 1, 1996. Final presentation materials must be received by January 1, 1997. There will be a limited number of exhibit tables available at the CSEE&T. The tables will be provided at no charge to conference participants and will be distributed in the order requests are received. Program Committee Clark Archer, Winthrop University Kathy Beckman, Computer Data Systems, Inc. Neal Coulter, Florida Atlantic University Jorge Diaz-Herrera, SEI Chuck Engle, Defense Information Systems Agency Bernice Folz, University of St. Thomas Gary Ford, SEI Christopher Fox, James Madison University Dennis Frailey, Texas Instruments Thomas Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Michael Lutz, Rochester Institute of Technology Mike McCracken, Georgia Institute of Technology Cliona McGowan, European Software Institute Kathleen O'Connor, Motorola Inc. George O'Mary, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Judy Phelan, Bell Atlantic Karl Reed, La Trobe University Hossein Saiedian, University of Nebraska Laurie Werth, University of Texas, Austin Send submissions to Charlene Rauber Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University 4500 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 Phone 412 / 268-3007 FAX 412 / 268-5758 Internet education@sei.cmu.edu Larry Tobin General Chair Lawrence Tobin Associates Internet ltatrain@erols.com Keith Pierce Program Chair University of Minnesota, Duluth Internet kpierce@d.umn.edu Sponsored by the SEI. Co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society. In cooperation with Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The SEI is a federally funded research and development center funded by the U.S. Department of Defense and operated by Carnegie Mellon University.