Industry/University Collaboration in Software Engineering Education: Refreshing and Retuning our Strategies
Abstract
Traditional Methods of Industry Participation: Serving on industry advisory boards; Making donations; Encouraging employees to work with universities as adjunct faculty or guest lecturers; Sponsoring and speaking at faculty development workshops; Bestowing grants to help develop new degree programs; Donating scholarships and summer internships to students in these programs; Providing support for realistic capstone projects; Modifying and updating employee position descriptions to raise the bar; Creating an financed chair position. New Realities: Software engineering staff members change jobs often; Industry investment in software engineering education has become an expensive luxury; Some organizations that hire software engineering graduates have little actual interest in software engineering; Financial analysts are concerned with the next quarterly report more than with what might happen five years from now; We are now in a global economy; strategies for industry/ university collaboration that work in one country or region may not work in another.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 04, 2015
- Accession Number
- AD1026984
Entities
People
- Nancy R. Mead
Organizations
- Carnegie Mellon University