Sustained Service Learning in Software Engineering Project Courses

Publications

1. Chang Liu, "Software Project Demonstrations as not only an Assessment Tool but also a Learning Tool," the 2006 SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, Texas, USA, March 1-5, 2006.
2. Roger Ferguson, Mary Last, Chang Liu, and Joe Mertz, "Service-Learning Projects: Opportunities and Challenges," panel, the 2006 SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, Texas, USA, March 1-5, 2006.
3. Chang Liu, "Partnering with and Assisting Community Partners in Service Learning Projects to Tailor and Articulate Project Requirements," the 2005 Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, October 19 - 22, 2005.
4. Chang Liu, "Enriching Software Engineering Courses with Service-Learning Projects and the Open-Source Approach," in the Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'05), St. Louis, Missouri, May 15 - 21, 2005. pp. 613-614.
5. Chang Liu, "Supporting Cross-Term, Cross-Team Projects in Software Engineering Courses," the 24th Annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching, Marcum Conference Center, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, November 18-21, 2004.

People and Projects

• Spring 2006 CS456/556 "Software Design and Development" (17 undergraduate students; 7 graduate students; assistant: Marc Macenko)
  • A web-based document management system for the MGC (five joint demonstration teams formed in Week Six) [project wiki site (registration required)]
• Fall 2005 CS456/556 "Software Design and Development" (11 undergraduate students; 9 graduate students; assistant: Michael Dunn)
  • A web-based document management system for the MGC (one team)
  • A KOHA cataloging tool for the Nelsonville Public Library (two teams)
  • A web-based management system for AIS SIG-ISAP (one team)

Links

• The Open Source software development approach
  • The GNU Project
  • Open Source Development Lab
  • The Apache Software Foundation
  • The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Steven Raymond
  • SourceForge
• EPICS at Purdue University
• Dr. Java
• 2005 Best Practices in Service Learning workshop
• Presentation "Service Learning Projects in EECS" for the 2005 Spotlight on Learning

Acknowledgements