On January 2006, the Sofware Engineering Program moved under the administration of the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE). The new website is http://www.nitle.org/index.php/nitle/collaborations/software_engineering

Note: We will no longer post to this site; however, it will continue to be available for archives.

The program was designed based on input both from CS departments (faculty and students) and IT departments, and the curriculum was created and taught by faculty from member institutions. It was taught by a team of faculty from different institutions, drawing on the particular expertise of each faculty member to create a course not possible at a single institution.

Each year, 10 students were selected via a competitive process to participate. These students received residence for 9 weeks at NITLE South, where they received instruction in software engineering from program faculty and together worked on a project selected on the basis of usefulness to the consortium and participating colleges.

Students applied in the fall or early winter, and were selected by participating faculty by late February. Selected students received campus housing at Southwestern University (site of the NITLE), a limited meal plan and a stipend for the summer.

For example, students in the pilot program created the ACSTC Course Delivery System (used to deliver inter-campus courses), and ELATED, an easy to use front end for Fedora that makes the functionality of Fedora available to small colleges.

We welcome ideas for projects from participating institutions

2004 Software Engineering Program Interns

(From Left to Right)
Kelson Gist, Joe Bertles, Blake Anderson, Shane Baumgartner, Jennifer Wilson,
Noelle Dian Wanzer, Eric Jansson, Donald Schwartz, Michael Higgs, Horace M. Perry,
Mary Greene, Rajat B. Shrestha, Binaya Poudyal