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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

undergraduate, mentoring environment, empirical software engineering research

College

Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Department

Computer Science

Abstract

In 2008 I was awarded a MEG entitled “An Undergraduate Mentoring Environment for Empirical Software Engineering Research.” In the several years that followed that award I was able to provide financial support to six undergraduate students. The results have been incredibly successful and gratifying. Of those students who received support from that MEG award, three continued research as graduate students in the SEQuOIA Lab— two are currently PhD candidates and the third is completing an MS degree. The other three students completed BS degrees and are currently employed as software engineers at Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon. These six mentored undergraduate students all published during their time in the lab, two of them while undergraduates. In all, these six students have participated in 17 refereed publications, most of them as primary authors. One of these mentored students, now a PhD candidate has been instrumental in the organization of an academic workshop on software engineering replication, a critical emerging area of research.

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