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The University of Melbourne recently introduced a new four year engineering degree course in software engineering. This degree course includes two project subjects, each running for the duration of our academic year. Educating students through project work invariably results in tradeoffs. Exposing students to two team projects in successive years builds on the students' experience and provides a much greater opportunity to address the relevant issues than is possible with a single project. This paper examines some of the problems we have experienced in running software engineering projects and how we address these problems in our course by including a project component with two distinct parts. We also examine the overheads and other issues that arise from student projects, especially where external clients are involved. The paper is based on our experience of over one hundred different student projects with external clients over several years.
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Johnston, L., Dart, P. (1993). Building on experience: An undergraduate course with two year-long projects. In: Díaz-Herrera, J.L. (eds) Software Engineering Education. CSEE 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 750. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0017626
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