Web engineering curriculum - A review of 12 years of delivery at postgraduate level

Web Engineering was introduced as a specialization in the Master of Information Technology (MIT) course at University of Western Sydney (UWS) in 1999. It has been reviewed internally and by external committees thrice in the last twelve years. These years have witnessed tremendous growth of the Web and Web-based applications. The tools and technologies supporting the Web and Web-applications have mushroomed and methodologies have been introduced in the Web Engineering area. Consequently, the concerns and issues that initially motivated the development of the Web Engineering curriculum have also evolved over time. This paper describes our experience of delivering Web Engineering curriculum, the problems encountered, the solutions to those problems and the lessons learnt.