Beyond Software and Beyond Engineering

Abstract

As software becomes a part of every product and service, the construction of software components demands familiarity with the rest of the system as well. Also, the success of a product depends on many business activities other than engineering, such as marketing and sales. And to a large degree, the entire software industry has been driven by successful entrepreneurship. Based on these trends, software engineering education must be revised and made interdisciplinary, to include at least computer hardware and business courses, and laboratory exercises to help students to integrate and apply the material learned in specialized courses.