The Rockwell Avionics Group Software Engineering Training Program

Abstract

In July of 1987, the Rockwell International Avionics Group initiated a Software Engineering Training Program to increase our personnel's knowledge of software engineering, particularly with respect to real-time, embedded systems development. The program's design and development took place from July 1987 through January 1988. The program has been offered to engineers and managers since March of 1988. During the March to September 1988 period there have been 530 participants. The program has been very successful so far and participation has been higher than anticipated. Plans are to continue the training program at a controlled pace, with periodic program evaluations used to continually steer the program in the right direction. This paper highlights some of the efforts and “lessons learned” in developing and administering the Software Engineering Training Program.