Promoting creativity, innovation and engineering excellence

Abstract

We present the design of a software engineering project course targeted towards fostering innovation and creativity and in instilling a sense of software engineering rigor in students. The discussion includes our experiences in conducting this course over the past three years for the students following the Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) degree program in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Moratuwa. We describe the challenges we faced and our approaches towards addressing such issues as well as our encouraging successes.