Panel: Software requirements engineering education in a changing world

One of the biggest challenges of organizations in contemporary times is the ability to manage rapid changes in business environment. Software and expert information systems can help to manage changes and thus contribute to addressing this challenge. The initial, and perhaps, most important activities in software and expert systems development are to elicit, analyze, specify, and validate requirements. The methods, processes, tools, and techniques for performing these activities is called ‘Requirements Engineering’ (RE). The aim of this panel is to bring together RE academics, practitioners, and researchers to discuss innovative ways of educating and training RE professionals that would develop software and information systems to address rapid changes in business environment. Additionally, this panel intends to identify and examine various challenges of RE education in our changing world, and proffer possible strategies to address them. We hope that the discussions from this panel will inform RE and REE practice.