Опыт проведения студенческих проектов на примере реализации metaCASE-системы QReal

Abstract

The paper examines the problem of gaining software engineering skills by students of universities' IT departments. This problem should be solved via embedding special tasks and exercises into educational process, that help students to gain skills useful in industrial practice. But educational standards only mention skills and describe knowledge that students must acquire, leaving the question of how it should be exactly done open. This paper discusses the idea of student projects and summer schools organization as a way to bring university education and industry closer to each other. Student projects and summer schools that were organized by software engineering chair of St. Petersburg state university are described and analysed. The paper also discusses organization of a series of student research projects using QReal project as an example. Task and problems that were solved during QReal summer school in 2011 are described.