NITLE Student Summer Software Engineering Internship

Sponsor: National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) Location:Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX (north of Austin) (Click here for a map.) When: June 4 - August 5, 2006 What: Learn software engineering by studying with faculty and working as a team to design and code software that will be used by the NITLE. Weeks 1-5 will be instruction and guided project work. Weeks 6-9 will be project work. Interns work 40 hours per week.

Approach: Extreme Programming

Project design will follow an overall architecture conceived by the faculty and will evolve during "stand-up meetings" with the students. Customers will be on-site and provide constant feedback to help develop the design. Interns program in pairs, and all team members will have the opportunity to work on each aspect of their project. Team members will have daily "stand-up meetings", as well as periodic releases of the software.

Logistics

Interns are responsible for all travel expenses, but will be housed in Southwestern University dorms at no cost and will also receive a stipend of $2,500 for the program. A partial meal plan will be provided, but students will be responsible for some meals.

Background

The National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) is interested in exploring ways to make the liberal arts environment more inviting to CS students. By completing projects for use in the consortium, students will contribute to a number of cooperative initiatives. Furthermore, the software created by the students will in most cases be made freely available (under the GPL) for more widespread use. For one example of such software, see the ACS Course Delivery System, which was created by the Software Engineering Pilot Program students in Summer 2002, at: http://cds.colleges.org/