History
The
Center was founded in June of 1993 by Dr. Barry W. Boehm for the
purpose of providing an environment for research and teaching
in the areas of large-scale software design and development processes,
generic and domain specific software architectures, software engineering
tools and environments, cooperative system design, and the economics
of software engineering.
Crucial
to the success of the Center's efforts are the partnerships created
with leading public and private sector organizations through their
participation in our CSE General Affiliates' and COCOMO II Affiliates'
programs. These organizations help fund the Center's research
and in turn benefit from its services and assets.
One
of the main goals of the Center is to perform research and development
of practical software technologies that can aid its Affiliate
members in reducing cost, customizing designs, and improving design
quality by doing concurrent software and systems engineering--yet
also meet the requirements of the Center for research topics that
will facilitate the training and education of skilled software
leaders armed with Ph.D. degrees.
Proof of
the Center's success in balancing its own academic needs and the
needs of its Affiliates is the fact that since its founding in
1993 the Center has graduated ten individuals with doctorates--with
at least two more anticipated within the next year--while at the
same time attracting the continued and on-going support of over
two dozen leading industrial partners.
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