tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19920821598846742042011-04-21T19:04:03.289-07:00Raul Santelices, Ph.D. studenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09805699970751468593noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992082159884674204.post-46246727617070617192008-05-30T16:22:00.000-07:002008-05-30T16:49:47.312-07:00Doing Ph.D. research in Software Engineering (SE) has opened my appetite. I am looking forward to a career investigating techniques to make software development more automated, safe, and productive. So, if I want a career in academia, should I loathe having to teach as well?<br /><br />I have been thinking this over for a while. In the past, I enjoyed developing and teaching a specialized SE class for CS students in Chile. I want to repeat the experience in the future. How much would this need compete with research for my scarce time?<br /><br />Well, they will compete. However, teaching SE makes people build better software. Moreover, I came to the realization that thinking on how to teach SE, putting that into practice in the classroom, and analyzing the results is in fact a form of SE research. Instead of developing better SE processes to improve developers' productivity in the field, I would be developing better teaching processes to improve future developers in the classroom. Teaching and transferring experience should be part of the software process. Why not include classroom teaching in that category too?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1992082159884674204-4624672761707061719?l=raul-cs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Raul Santelices, Ph.D. studenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09805699970751468593noreply@blogger.com0