indian education(印度教育概况)

Software Engineering Education From Indian Perspective

Rupa Mahanti P.K.Mahanti Department of Comp.Sc.&Engg.Department of CSAS

Birla Institute of Technology,University of New Brunswick

Mesra-835215,Ranchi,India Saint John,Canada rupa_mahanti123@ pkmahanti@yahoo.co.in

Abstract

Software is omnipresent in today’s world.India is a hub to more than1000software companies.The software industry is a major employment providing industry in India.As a wholly intellectual artifact,software development is among the most labor demanding,intricate, and error-prone technologies in human history.Software’s escalating vital role in systems of pervasive impact presents novel challenges for the education of software engineers.This paper focuses on the current status of software engineering education in India and suggestions for improvement so as to best suit the software industry’s needs.

1.Introduction

Software is omnipresent in today’s world.Software is one the most important and yet one of the most economically challenging technologies in the current era.India is a hub to more than 1000software companies.The software industry is a major employment providing Industry in India.At least40software companies have strength of more than1000people with a global presence.Many multinationals have centers in India-GE,Microsoft,IBM,Cisco,Cognizant, Novell,Sun,Hughes,Oracle,Hewlett-Packard,Zensar etc.The biggest companies are Indian-TCS,Infosys,Wipro,Satyam,HCL,CMC,NIIT.Most top companies are high-maturity organizations.More than half of high maturity organizations in the world are in India.Over100 of Fortune500Companies have set-up R&D bases in India.There has been a large demand for software development in US and the west and India is the largest supply of trained manpower. People employed have increased from10,000to about250,000with a huge requirement of skilled professionals.

As a wholly intellectual artifact,software development is among the most labor demanding, intricate,and error-prone technologies in human history.Software is increasingly of public importance,both as an essential element in engineered systems and as the principal embodiment of capabilities whose failure is of nontrivial consequence to the public at large or individual members of the public.The public wants and deserves assurances about the quality of both systems with embedded software and systems that are principally embodied in software. Software’s escalating vital role in systems of pervasive impact as well as its changing character presents novel challenges for the education of software engineers.The quality,reliability and success of these software rely on the adequate supply of adept and state-of-the-art software developers[1].