• "Computer software engineers are among the occupations projected to grow the fastest and add the most new jobs over the 2008-18 decade, resulting in excellent job prospects."

• "Computer software engineers are among the occupations projected to grow the fastest and add the most new jobs over the 2008-18 decade, resulting in excellent job prospects."
• "As technology evolves, however, and newer, more sophisticated tools emerge, programmers will need to update their skills in order to remain competitive.".
• "Employment change. Overall, employment of computer software engineers and computer programmers is projected to increase by 21 percent from 2008 to 2018, much faster than the average for all occupations."
• Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Edition", "Computer Software Engineers" (emphasis added)

We encourage the following capabilities in software engineering because we think that these capabilities promote employability:

• Develop and demonstrate technical agility by developing capabilities in at least two technical areas.
• Understand your customer's/client's/employer's business, and orient your work around that business.
• Understand the architecture of the system you are developing or maintaining, including system testing.
• Communicate the right thing at the right time to the right people in a way that is appropriate to: your audience, your subject, and the time.

• "... science and engineering ..." - the areas that should be studied by "... best and brightest minds ...." (emphasis added)
• Mr. Gao Xiquing, President of China Investment Corporation.
• Manages over $200 billion dollars (US) in investments.
• Quoted from "Be Nice to the Countries that Lend You Money" by James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 302 no. 5, December 2008, pp. 62-65.
• "I foresee the following as the 10 strongest professions and industries over the coming decade and beyond: "
• "Engineering. It will take many years and a lot of effort to retool the United States's abandoned industrial base for twenty-first-century manufacturing. Engineering of all sorts-mechanical, electrical, computer science-will be needed to get the job done.
• Mr. Peter D. Schiff, President of Euro Pacific Capital Ind.
• Predicted the 2008 economic changes in early 2007.
• Quoted from The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets by Peter D. Schiff, The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 302 no. 5, December 2008, pp. 196-197.

There is a dynamic software industry in the United States and elsewhere. Our goal is to help out students to be competitive participants in that industry.

See the Dynamic Evolving Curriculum page for some of the steps we are taking, planning, or considering.