SCIoT 2025 July 7-9, 2025 in Dallas, USA. The 2nd International Symposium on System and Software Reliability.

SCIoT 2025 Keynote 2

Student Software Engineering Projects Lessons Learned

Abstract

The Fellows Consulting Group [FCG] shares findings and recommendations collected from 32 student/ industry completed software engineering projects. Spanning the past 12 years; the one-semester student projects were defined and mentored by industry representatives from: FCG, Electronic Data Systems, Hewlett-Packard, DXC Technology and NTT Data.

The common thread linking all of the projects is the University's [UTD] and industry’s desire to provide senior-level software engineering students with an in-depth experience in the present and future of software engineering as a profession.

The analysis of completed one-semester projects highlights the need for technical and business skills in project management. Properly-defined and well-managed projects produce valuable results.

Speaker

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Dr. Tom Hill USA

Partner

The Fellows Consulting Group

Dr. Thomas Hill, who became an EDS, an HP company, Fellow in 1991, was Director of EDS' Fellows and Distinguished Engineering Programs. The Fellows organization is responsible for corporate technical thought leadership and for creating innovative revenue-producing service offerings and tools for EDS' strategic targets, clients and EDS itself. Currently, Dr. Hill is a co-Founder of the Fellows Consulting Group in Dallas, Texas, which provides quality, productivity, and innovation services for industry clients to deliver their products at cost-effective ways.

In addition to fulfilling his professional obligations, Dr. Hill is a member of the ACM and the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). He currently serves on the engineering boards of Texas Christian University and the University of Texas at Dallas, as well as volunteers as a mentor for the University of Dallas' MBA program. He has a BS and MBA in Information Technology, Microsoft certifications, and an open group architecture certification. Dr. Hill has written numerous articles and publications. He holds four active patents and has five patents pending.

Panelists

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Professor Min Xie China

Chair Professor, Department of Advanced Design and Systems Engineering

City University of Hong Kong
IEEE Fellow

Min Xie has been a Chair Professor at City University of Hong Kong since 2011. He joined National University of Singapore in 1991 as one of the first recipients of the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Research Fellowship. He holds a Ph.D. from Linkoping University, Sweden in 1987. Prof Xie has carried out extensive research in reliability, quality control, and systems engineering. He has published over 300 journal papers and 10 books, including “Software Reliability Modelling”, “Weibull Models”, “Computing System Reliability” etc. His recently co-authored book, “Cyber-Physical Distributed Systems: Modeling, Reliability Analysis and Applications”, was published by Wiley. He has advised over 60 Ph.D. students, now working in industry or academia on different continents. Prof Xie has been a fellow of IEEE since 2006 and was recently elected to European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

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Professor Wenhua Chen China

Former Vice President

Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

Dr. Wenhua Chen was Former Vice President of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Director of the Academic Committee of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, and Chair of the Science and Technology Association of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University. He is a recipient of the “Ten Thousand Talents Plan” in Zhejiang Province. Dr. Chen was also the Executive Director of the China Society of Mechanical Engineering and Chair of the Council of Reliability Engineering Branch. He has engaged in long-term basic research and engineering applications in the reliability design, accelerated testing, life prediction, and safety assessment of electromechanical products, forming distinctive features and advantages in the theory and methods of comprehensive stress accelerated life testing. Dr. Chen has led many projects, including 17 national-level scientific research projects sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation, the National Defense 973 Program, the 863 Program, and the National Defense Technology Foundation. He also received one first-class and one special prize, seven second prizes, and eight third prizes at the provincial and ministerial levels. He has received 87 invention patents and published 223 journal papers. Last, Dr. Chen received one first prize for national teaching achievements, one first prize, and one second prize for provincial-level teaching achievements.

Long Version
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Professor Yuanshun Dai China

Dean, School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence

Southwest Jiaotong University

Dr. Dai is a Professor at Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) and Dean of the School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence at SWJTU. Dr. Dai’s research mainly focuses on Reliability Modeling and Optimization for Large-Scale Networking Systems (LSNS). He has published about 200 articles, where there are 4 books, 128 journal papers including 58 IEEE/ACM Transactions papers, and 40 conference papers including 2 Best Paper Awards. He has been continuously elected as “Chinese Most Cited Researchers” in the field of “Safety, Risk, Reliability, and Quality” by Elsevier from 2015 to 2019. He serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Reliability and is also on the editorial boards of several journals. Dr. Dai was also invited as a Keynote Speaker for IEEE ISORC’05, ChinaSoft’11, ICCT’12, iThings’16, and DASC’19, etc.

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Dr. Liming Ren China

Dean

China Astronautics Standards Institute

Dr. Liming Ren is a professor and the dean of China Astronautics Standards Institute. He obtained his doctoral degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University. For many years, he has been consistently engaged in aerospace reliability, maintainability, and safety assurance, developed multiple product assurance technologies such as Sneak Circuit Analysis (SCA) and Worst Case Analysis (WCA), and made significant contributions to the success of major aerospace projects.

Technical Sponsor
IEEE Reliability Society
Conference Patron
Soochou University
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