East Meets West: Global Software Engineering Course in Japan and Germany

Global software engineering poses unique challenges to distributed teams and tasks. Engineering education should reflect these realworld scenarios as closely as possible. Due to budgetary constraints and the complexity of conducting global software engineering education, students have limited opportunities to gain international experience. A global software engineering class conducted by the Ritsumeikan University in Japan and the Technical University of Nuremberg in Germany is described. A problem-based learning approach provided students experience working in international software development teams.