Software models in practice in student projects: Educators Symposium @ models 2015 - Panel summary

 We teach modeling, intending that students will be the "messengers" of Model Driven Engineering (MDE) in the software world.  We hope that students that were exposed to models will start using them when designing and developing their projects, and later on, will integrate and propagate models in industry projects.  If we believe that MDE should prevail in software construction, we must guarantee that students start and continue using models during a project life cycle. However, it seems that achieving these goals is challenging. To better understand that phenomena, the panel we had at the Modeling Educator Symposium was asked to address the following: To what extent do students that were taught a detailed modeling course continue using models in their studies and in particular in their capstone projects? The rationale was that if our own students do not use models, how can we expect the vision/message of MDE to spread around?