Software engineering sustainability education in compliance with industrial standards and green IT concept

Abstract

The chapter presents a scientific approach to building the course “Software Engineering Sustainability” to introduce the sustainable concept into educational programs for software engineers. The approach is based on the development and harmonization of the professional competence list with the application of formal mathematics and using graph theory along with open source visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. The proposed approach supports the flexible development of curricula, allowing each university to create programs, guided by their own specialties and demographics of their students. The authors demonstrate how they consider different factors to build a harmonized list of professional competencies for software engineers and to develop courses to support sustainability through the higher education system. This list of professional competences meets the requirements of employers, maintains the successful experience of national higher education and professional industry standards, and conforms to the European Union e-Competence Framework. The chapter contains review and analysis of the term “Software Engineering Sustainability” from different viewpoints. Authors provide description of elaborated and applied approach to building the course. They present the design of the course “Software Engineering Sustainability” with description of the course content and visible positioning Green IT. The course has been being delivered by the first author at National Aerospace University “Kharkiv Aviation Institute”.