The purpose of the SEA Professional Development Committee is to
monitor and promote the professional development of software engineers
at UCAR. Committee objectives include:
- To provide a list of educational opportunities.
- To update UCAR educational policies to allow for conference
tutorials.
The committee is comprised of
Juli Rew (chair),
Cheryl Cristanelli, and the SEA Executive Committee.
Current areas for action
Our near-term goal is to provide a broad list of professional
development resources including
online training courses,
local classes facilitated using freely available courseware, and
seminars, in addition to more
formal education. Our objectives for accomplishing this include:
- Organizing a series of focus group sessions inviting all software engineers to give input on needed professional development activities
- Compiling a comprehensive list of online courses.
- Generating interest in self-run courses by:
- Placing announcements in "This Week at UCAR."
- Defining the service that SEA will provide.
- Determining if SEA members or someone else will be facilitators.
- Modifying
the
current HR EAP policy to be more flexible, allowing both time and
money to be spent on less traditional educational opportunities, which
is more realistic for many software engineers.
In the longer term, we are working to propose an "Advanced Software
Engineering Training" program. A list of proposed courses
aimed at enhancing the NCAR/UCAR SE workforce would be identified.
Where training could not be given in-house, NCAR would subsidize
needed training.
Please visit the sea-prof-dev
wiki to comment on the curriculum topics or to add comments to those
gathered during the focus group sessions conducted in May 2008. Note:
You must log in to the UCAR wiki site before you can see the
sea-prof-dev listing.
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