REU Site: Empirical Software Engineering

University Of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa AL

Investigators

Abstract

This funding renews a highly-successful CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa. This site focuses on empirical software engineering and its projects span several exciting areas of inquiry, including text retrieval based feature location, code clone evolution, software engineering techniques and tools for computational science & engineering, and open-source developer communities. This REU site will allow 30 students (over three years) to experience Software Engineering research. Participating students will attend research training and professional development seminars. Students will have the opportunity to submit their research to quality conferences and to present their work, if accepted. The project team is committed to including under-represented minority students in their research. Thus this project has the potential to produce new computer science graduate students and faculty members and to advance discovery and understanding while promoting learning.