Design, construction and implementation of a professional education program of software engineering: Design curriculum experience for the software industry

Abstract

A competence-based teaching curriculum approach and propaedeutic cycles model has been taken by Fundación Universitaria Panamericana, which aims to ensure the appropriateness for the industry, so that is the reason it has focused its efforts to develop mechanisms to understand the needs and translate them into a dynamic, flexible and pertinent curriculum. For the software engineering program there was a systemic thinking approach, consisting of the different units and areas of knowledge and the functions and responsibilities from the perspective of the production sector which provided to the curriculum design model a minimalist point of view of factors that influence the elements, structures, processes, interrelations and reactions compared to the expectations for a professional in the field. This is supported with pedagogical guidance, academic environment implementation through integrating projects and active methodologies, self-assessment and continuous updating.