9th China-Europe International Symposium on Software Engineering Education, Milan

Two members of the Computing TeamGary Hill and Scott Turner on 12-14th May 2013 presented a paper Electronic Online Marking Of Software Assignments (EOMOSA) in Milan at 9th China-Europe International Symposium on Software Engineering Education. (which two years ago was held in Northampton). 

This conference series brings Universities in Europe together with some of the top universities in China, in the field of software engineering, to discuss industrial orientation software education.

As well as presenting, members of the School of Science and Technology continue on the programme committee including chairing one of the sessions. 


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7th China – Europe International Symposium on Software Industry Orientated Education: 23-24th May 2011, University of Northampton

The 7th China – Europe International Symposium on Software Industry Orientated Education is to be hosted by the School of Science and Technology, University of Northampton on 23-24th May 2011. 


This is only the third time the symposium has been held in Europe. Previous locations:

• 1st China-Europe International Symposium on Software Industry Oriented Education was held in HIT, Harbin.
• The 2nd  was again held in HIT, Harbin.
• The 3rd CIES-SIOE was held in DIT, Dublin, in Feb. 2007.
• The 4th CEISIE  was held in Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China in January 2008.
• The 5th CEISIE was held in University of Bordeaux, France in May 2009.
• The 6th CEISIE was held in Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China in May 2010.

The theme is Green Computing but the following topics are appropriate.

• Ethos for industry oriented software education
  
• Model for industry oriented software education
  
• Curriculum for industry oriented software education
  
• Quality assurance and evaluation in industry oriented
  
• Software education
  
• E-Learning and support tools
  
• Internationalization of software education
  
• Cooperation model for industries and software education
  
• Green computing and the role of higher education
  
• Behavioural and technological aspects of green IT
  
• Innovation and evaluation of software education.

To support potential Chinese participants, given that the costs of travel to Europe are not cheap the School of Science and Technology has offered to sponsor China based delegates by paying 50% of their registration fee. 

The symposium website has further details.

Robots and Graphical Programming: Xi'an China

Two members of the computing division recently presented a paper "Innovative use of Robots and Graphical Programming in Software Education " at  6th China Europe International Symposium on Software Industry Oriented Education (CEISIE2010) Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an China.


Problem solving is an important skill for a computer scientist. Mindstorm based robots have been used previously, for teaching programming to computing and engineering students here we look at problem solving. These approaches focus upon the development of problem solving skills and not on learning a new programming language from the outset. Therefore, initially, any programming is kept simple with the minimum of commands, with „objects‟ unknowingly used, as these are later introduced/learnt during the programming stage of the computing module. This work suggests that using LEGO robots within the teaching of problem solving and the resulting java GUI emulation has some benefits for the students when learning to program. 


More details can be found in the following article :
Turner S and Hill G (2010) "Innovative use of Robots and Graphical Programming in Software Education" Computer Education Ser. 117 No. 9 pp 54-57 ISSN: 1672-5913