20th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training 3-5 July, 2007

The 20th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training will be held in the School of Computing, Dublin City University, Ireland during the 3-5 July, 2007.

CSEE&T deals with the educational and training issues involved in ensuring that graduates and company staff are able to develop quality software in a cost-effective manner. Started in 1987 by Norm Gibbs at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), the Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training (CSEE&T) has become the premier annual conference focusing on education and training in software engineering. The conference has received the sustained support and sponsorship of IEEE - Computer Society, academia and industry. Responding to the global impact of software engineering practices, CSEE&T was held in Spain in 2003 and Canada in 2005.

Keynote speakers will discuss the software engineering scene and related educational and training developments in P.R. China (Prof. Yulin Wang), the nationally recognised graduate training programme at Fidelity Investments (Marie Moloney), and underlying dilemmas in software education (Prof. David Parnas). Globalisation is a particular focus this year, with twenty-six countries involved in the forty refereed papers being presented. Panel sessions, workshops and other events provide many further opportunities for the exchange of ideas.

Starting with CSEE&T 2006 in Hawaii, an Academy for Software Engineering Education and Training (ASEE&T) has been added to the program.

Details of the conference programme and other information can be found at:http://www.computing.dcu.ie/cseet2007

IRCSET Postdoctoral Fellowship Success

Congratulations to Zhen Liu, Timo Volkmer and Arijit Bhattacharya who were awarded Embark Postdoctoral Fellowships. We look forward to working with the new fellows over the coming years.

The Embark Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme is administered by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET). It is open to researchers from all nations who are at an early stage of their postdoctoral research career and who wish to further their research in the sciences, engineering or technology, at an Irish research institution.

Zhen Liu will be working with Dr. Xiaojun Wang (School of Electronic Engineering). Timo Volkmer will be working with Professor Alan Smeaton (School of Computing and CDVP/AIC). Arijit Bhattacharya will be working with Dr. John Geraghty and Dr. Paul Young (School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering)

Other Embark successes for DCU are Clare Hamilton (Mol/Bio), Patrick Hayden (Physics), Ewa Kazimierska (Chemistry) and Jofre Pedregosa Gutierrez (Physics).

DCU was also successful in the the first round of the Embark Postgraduate Research Scholarship Scheme, the results of which were announced in March. The following successful applicants to this scheme will be hosted in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing, (supervisor and School in parentheses):
Oisín Mac Fhearaí (Dr. Mark Humphrys - School of Computing)
Didier Roche (Prof Heather Ruskin - School of Computing)
Robert Ryan (Dr Markus Helfert - School of Computing)
Georgiana Dinu (Prof Josef van Genabith - School of Computing)
Lorna Fitzsimons (Dr Brian Corcoran - School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering)
Stephen O'Brien (Prof Paul F Whelan - School of Electronic Engineering)

Of note:
The second call for the Embark Postgraduate Research Scholarship Scheme is expected at the end of June. If you are interested in applying for this scheme, please consult the research pages of the three Schools (below) and contact your potential supervisor directly.

School of Computing Research Pages
School of Electronic Engineering Research Pages
School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Staff Pages