International Software Engineering University Consortium (ISEUC): a glimpse into the future of university and industry collaboration

ISEUC is a consortium of universities and colleges around the world who will provide software engineering (SE) courses to students globally via distance learning, primarily using the asynchronous mode of the Internet. ISEUC members, currently numbering 35 from Australia, Canada, the UK, and the USA, already have established programs and/or degrees in software engineering. ISEUC serves as a broker for its members to provide additional students for existing and future Web-enabled courses, and is not a degree-granting organization. ISEUC will have both faculty and professional advisory boards. The primary markets are corporations that employ professionals trying to develop reliable, robust, and useful software products in a timely and efficient fashion, but who do not currently have state-of-the-art knowledge or skills. The paper gives a short description of why ISEUC has come into existence, what it looks like, results of personal visits, and what would be involved to become a member