Course Design on Emerging Technologies

Abstract

This paper discusses the design of Emerging Technologies course under the Software Engineering Department at Atilim University. At Atilim University, a visionary course was needed especially for the senior undergraduate students of Information Technology (IT) related departments. At Atilim University, there are 3 IT related departments which are Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Information Systems Engineering. This course should have covered all the emerging technologies so that students can decide properly the fields to work after graduation. Moreover, students should have been encouraged for entrepreneurship to develop their own businesses. As a result, a course covering all emerging technologies was designed. First of all, a comprehensive definition is formed for emerging technologies, and they are classified. The important concepts included in the course are active learning, improving the vision, proposing new technologies, and forecasting the future technologies. The course also includes a project which is designed to be a simulation of an important emerging technology. For the simulation project, software development is requested from the students. This provides students to reconcile emerging technologies and software development, which is the most important technology for IT related students. This paper presents instructor experiences, student feedback analysis, lessons learned and recommendations for other instructors.