Software Engineering Education in the New World What Needs to Change?

Software Engineering, as a discipline has made significant progress towards becoming an engineering profession over the last 45 years. As evidence of this the 3rd version of the guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge was recently released. Additionally there are reference curricula for undergraduate and graduate education in software engineering. During the past 45 years the state of the practice has made significant progress as well. Some of that progress is reflected in the SWEBOK and associated curriculum, but the software engineering practice in the segment of industry that produces internet scale systems is not well supported by the guide to the SWEBOK, reference curriculum, or current software engineering degree programs. This paper presents a study of the current state of the practice in software engineering organizations and compares the results with the core body of knowledge recommended by the software engineering reference curriculum.