Cecile Peraire

Dr. Péraire's teaching philosophy has formed while teaching in both industry and academia. Her philosophy is based on the premises that students learn best when they are active participant in the learning process, and that the journey to mastery requires practice. She encourages active learning and practice by creating opportunities for problem-solving and critical thinking in the context of classroom discussions, in-class exercises, and projects of realistic complexity. She values and encourages collaboration and teamwork that are key ingredients of success in the software industry. Furthermore, she aims to instill social and ethical responsibility in students by proposing projects tackling some of the world’s most pressing problems and encouraging students to consider the social and ethical impact of their work.

Throughout her career, Péraire taught 16 different undergraduate, graduate, and industry courses (most of them several times) at EPFL, HP, Rational, IBM and CMU. She has contributed to the design of many of these courses. Here are the courses that she is currently teaching at CMU:

18-652: Foundations of Software Engineering
18-658: Software Requirements and Interaction Design
18-659: Software Engineering Methods