A Scalable Approach to Graduate Student Projects: Hundreds with Industry Every Year

Author

Thompson, J. Barrie ; Edwards, Helen M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Eng. & Technol., Univ. of Sunderland, Sunderland

fYear

2009

fDate

17-20 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

158

Lastpage

161

Abstract

By undertaking projects that have a real-world dimension students are highly likely to gain the skills and abilities which industry requires. An outline is presented of the range of taught masters level programmes at the University of Sunderland highlighting the requirement for each student to undertake a capstone project. Details are presented of an approach, involving empowerment and control, that has enabled hundreds of successful projects to be undertaken with industry ever year. Finally reflections are presented along with details of developments.

Keywords

computer science education; University of Sunderland; graduate student projects; masters level programmes; real-world dimension students; Computer industry; Computer networks; Electronic commerce; Industrial training; Information management; Information technology; Management information systems; Reflection; Software engineering; Technology management; Industry-academia collaboration models; Internships and projects for students and graduates; Performance evaluation and assessment.;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Education and Training, 2009. CSEET '09. 22nd Conference on

Conference_Location

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

ISSN

1093-0175

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3431-2

Electronic_ISBN

1093-0175

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSEET.2009.28

Filename

4812691