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Sustainable Software Engineering: Curriculum Development Based on ACM/IEEE Guidelines

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Climate change risk and environmental degradation are the most critical issues of our society. Our technology-influenced daily lifestyle involves many types of software and apps which are used by society at large, and their use is increasing more than ever before. Sustainability is a significant topic for future professionals and more so for software engineers due to its impact on society. It is crucial to motivate and raise concern among students and faculty members regarding sustainability by including it in the Software Engineering (SE) curriculum. This chapter discusses how sustainability can be included in various courses of the SE curriculum by considering ACM/IEEE curriculum guidelines for the SE curriculum, literature review, and various viewpoints so that SE students can attain knowledge on sustainable software engineering. It also includes an assessment of key competences in sustainability for proposed units in the SE curriculum.

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  1. Molde University College, Molde, Norway

    Alok Mishra

  2. Department of Software Engineering, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey

    Alok Mishra

  3. Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway

    Deepti Mishra

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Mishra, A., Mishra, D. (2021). Sustainable Software Engineering: Curriculum Development Based on ACM/IEEE Guidelines. In: Calero, C., Moraga, M.Á., Piattini, M. (eds) Software Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69970-3_11

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