Keynote address: Some hard questions for software engineering educators -- Essential knowledge for the practising software engineer and the responsibilities of university and industry for her education -- Computer productivity initiative: Past, present, and future -- Software Engineering education: A dragging-through approach -- Establishing software engineering as a profession -- Industry involvement in undergraduate curricula: Reinforcing learning by applying the principles -- The CMU master of Software Engineering core curriculum -- The integration of software engineering into a computer science curriculum -- An evolution of a software engineering curriculum -- Object-oriented technology education and training: Bridging the gap between academia and industry -- CMM-based software process improvement training: The first year -- Keynote Address Education — the world's best investment -- Process improvement in the classroom -- Personal Software Process: An experiential report -- The process of teaching process -- Managing software engineering education in diverse environments -- The role of the software engineer in real-time software development: An introductory course -- Parallel and distributed computing education: A software engineering approach -- Understanding the role of formal specification techniques in requirements engineering -- An integrated approach to teaching requirements modelling -- Is teaching software design a ‘wicked’ problem too? -- Software engineering curriculum development model -- The software process improvement game -- Academic freedom versus quality assurance -- Keynote address: Endangered species? The single-skilled information worker -- Experience in teaching a management-oriented capstone software engineering course -- Team selection methods for student programming projects -- Developing leadership skills in software engineering students through an undergraduate research program -- CARDS Training: Transferring reuse knowledge -- Teaching more comprehensive model-based software engineering: Experience with objectory's use case approach -- On teaching software verification and validation -- The Delphi survey methodology: An approach to determine training needs -- A skills-driven process for training computer professionals -- Is this training? A unique approach to software process training in industry -- Education trends and their impact on management of software engineering education -- Understanding, using and designing for educational uses of the World-Wide Web -- From training to learning: The reengineering of training at DMR Group Inc. -- Managing quality in course staging — A working paper -- A Russian software center ascends the SEI maturity: Education by Motorola University -- Teaching practical principles of software measurement -- Teaching object oriented programming and design with Eiffel -- Half day tutorial on the personal process in software engineering -- Research methods in computer science education.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 8th Conference on Software Engineering Education, SEI CSEE 1995, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA in March/April 1995. The volume presents 25 carefully selected full papers by researchers, educators, trainers and managers from the relevant academic, industrial and governmental communities; in addition there are abstracts of keynote speeches, panels, and tutorials. The topics covered include curriculum issues: Goals - what should we be teaching.- Process issues.- Software engineering in special domains.- Requirements and designs.- People, management, and leadership skills.- Technology issues.- Education and training - needs and trends.