Software Engineering Lab (SOELA)
Dr. Sergiu Dascalu, Dr. Eelke Folmer
In the Software Engineering Laboratory (SOELA), located in SEM 205, research is focused on several areas of software engineering, including:
- Requirements specification
- Software architectures
- User interface design
- Component-based software development
- Game software engineering
- Game interaction design
- Management of large software projects
- Software environments
- Software processes
- Software frameworks to support scientific research
- Software quality assurance
In addition, SOELA serves as a research lab for several topics on human-computer interaction such as virtual reality and simulation environments, software/game usability and accessibility, and software support for computer-aided education. SOELA is intended to become a major hub for multidisciplinary software-intensive research projects and it is also the main laboratory for students working on their final year Senior Projects in Computer Science and Engineering.
Collaboration with local and national research and industry is actively sought after, examples of projects involving joint work with experts from outside the UNR being:
- Project Crown Vision: Metrics for Managing Large Software Systems; IRIS: Project Maps Decomposition Colorizer; and Earned Schedule Estimation Tool, with Quadrant One, Inc., Arlington, VA;
- Framework for Understanding the Open Source Revolution with Mr. Jeff Elpern, Reno/Tahoe Software Quality Institute.
Funding for SOELA and its projects has been received from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, College of Engineering, the Office of the Provost of the University of Nevada, Reno, as well as from other intramural (e.g., UNR Junior Faculty Research Awards, UNR International Activities Grant, Instructional Enhancement Grants, Undergraduate Research Awards) and extramural sources (DoD/ONR, NSF, NASA, The National Institute for Systems Test and Productivity, Quadrant One, Inc. Arlington, VA, the University of South Florida/SPAWAR, and Bally Technologies, Reno, NV).