Competencies in Software Engineering of InformaticsGraduates at Coordinator of Higher Education Region(Kopertis III) Based on Final Assignment Evaluation

The aim of this research is to analyze manuscripts of undergraduate thesis by graduate students of TechnicalInformatics in regards to know the duration of study, technical skills in software engineering, complexities ofapplication. 200 samples of final assignments as research subjects were evaluated taken from 10 privateuniversity libraries at Coordinator of Private Universities (Kopertis) Level Region III. The topic of final assignmentanalyzed is about software design and development. Sample analysis of this research uses open coding method. The first phase of open coding aims at knowing the duration of study and developing topical categories of undergraduate thesis. The second step of open coding is to classify technical skills in process of software engineering; the classificationitself is based on Life Cycle Skill Areas in Software Engineering Competency Model (SWECOM) designed by IEEEComputer Society. The third step is to look at complexities of the application. Further, selective coding is done todetermine the competency software engineering of undergraduate students at Coordinator of Private Universities LevelRegion III through analyzing the duration of the study, technical skills and complexity of application. Result of this studyhas shown that many graduates of Technical Informatics do not complete their study on time; the duration theyaccomplish their study is beyond than 7-8 semesters. In software engineering, the graduates have good skills indesigning software, however the skills to analyze and skills to software testing need more improvement. Theapplications produced by undergraduate students have low and medium complexities. A small number of applicationswhich have high level of complexities. Based on this research, to improve students’ competency in software engineeringneed to do some improvements: 1) to put big effort of students in software engineering, 2) to improve technical skills ofstudents in the stages of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). The result of this research can be used as basicinformation for Study Program of Technical Infromatics of private universities, more specificly at Coordinator of PrivateHigher Education (Kopertis) Level Region III to develop curiculum in the field of software engineering based NationalQualification Framework (KKNI) and National Standards for Higher Education (SN-DIKTI)