Keeping Software Engineering Curriculum Relevant

This lightning talk focuses on the efforts of software engineering (SE) academics to keep curriculum relevant. SE evolves rapidly, with changing technology and industry expectations. The curriculum review bodies (e.g. ACM and IEEE-CS working groups) provide a foundation for curriculum, but can have refresh cycles measured in years. We aim to identify, and potentially increase, the confidence level of SE educators with respect to the relevance of their curriculum. It is also of interest to identify the sources academia uses to keep their courses current. and the role of gray literature (GL). Other fields have found GL useful in bridging academic research and industry needs. GL can be extended to SE to aid faculty preparing students for industry.