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Midwest Software Engineering
Consortium (MSEC)
Kickoff Meeting
21
May 2005 at
ICSE 2005
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis
Ballroom A
[Floor Plan] |
Meeting Topics & Outcomes | Organizing Committee | Participation
Attendance at this first Consortium meeting
is by invitation only.
" Software is Everywhere" and so too
is Software Engineering, yet there
are compelling reasons for leveraging geographic proximity to bring together
like-minded researchers and educators to profit from each others experience
and expertise.
The over-arching goal of the Midwest Software Engineering
Consortium (MSEC) is to do precisely that for Software Engineering researchers
and educators in the central United States (broadly construed as stretching
from Ohio in the East, to Nebraska in the West, and North of Missouri).
MEETING TOPICS AND OUTCOMES
This kickoff meeting will provide
an opportunity for getting to know new colleagues and establishing programs
that can serve
the regional
Software engineering research and education community. The organizing
committee has identified three programs that provide a significant
opportunity for building that community. Shaping and planning
those programs is a primary goal of this meeting. The programs are:
1) The Annual Midwest Software Engineering
Workshop (MSEW) is envisioned as a regional outlet for reviewed, but
not highly refereed, research
findings. In contrast to meetings like ICSE, the MSEW will foster the sharing
of preliminary research findings and provide an opportunity for researchers
and students to present their work and receive constructive feedback. An
important function of this meeting will be to provide an opportunity to
build regional partnerships between researchers
and industry. To foster this, the MSEW will change locations each year,
focus on a theme that is that is strongly aligned with local industry,
and will incorporate invited talks related to the theme from
industry and research perspectives. This should provide an exciting
opportunity for researchers to interact with industry that they might
not otherwise come in contact with.
2) The Software Engineering Research Internships
for Undergraduates (SERIU)
program will provide a means for Computer Science undergraduates to gain first-hand
knowledge of the opportunities and rewards available through graduate study
in Software Engineering research.
Modeled after the CRA's successful Distributed Mentor Program, this program
will pair regional undergraduates with an advisor who is an established
Software Engineering researcher. Students will be provided with support
for a summer internship in the advisor's lab and have the opportunity
to work with graduate students and researchers on cutting edge problems.
SERIU will provide an opportunity for undergraduate institutions to enrich
the education of their best students and to expose them to different
career choices.
3) The Software Engineering Visitors (SEV)
program will provide an opportunity for short-term and extended visits
among regional institutions. Specifically, the focus of this program is
to foster connections between faculty at undergraduate institutions and
faculty with established research programs. Visits may come in a variety
of forms and durations: a short multi-day visit by a leading expert in a research area to an undergraduate
institution might be an exciting way to energize the presentation of a topic
in an SE course, or a multi-week visit in the summer by undergraduate faculty
to an SE research lab might kindle an ongoing collaboration to the benefit
of both parties. There is a wealth of knowledge and expertise on SE topics
in the region and the SEV program provides one mechanism for tapping that
by establishing partnerships.
This kickoff meeting will interleave presentations
on the above programs
with invited presentations from regional institutions that will serve
to inform the participants of the kinds of expertise and programs that
are *nearby*. There are many other possible ways for regional SE
researchers and educators to productively interact and there will be time
set aside to discuss those ideas and to present them to meeting participants.
The meeting will also include the formation of organizing committees for
the programs that are deemed to be worthy of establishing and for pursuing
funding for those programs.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Mark Ardis - Rose Hulman
Betty Cheng - Michigan State
Matthew Dwyer - Nebraska, Lincoln (Chair)
Gary Leavens - Iowa State
Mats Heimdahl - Minnesota
Jane Huang - Depaul
Bruce Weide - Ohio State
PARTICIPATION
To ensure broad and representative participation
by SE researchers and
educators in the midwest states, the kickoff meeting will be by invitation
only. Approximately 50 participants drawn from faculty at undergraduate
institutions and graduate research institutions will be invited. All
follow-on programs will be *open* to the communities they serve.
