Engineering a successful partnership between academia and the financial industry: A software engineering program for IT professionals

This paper describes an ongoing partnership between the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems at Pace University, a Registered Education Provider (REP) for IEEE and the Information Technology Division at Bank of New York Mellon. The goal of the project is to deliver at the bank´s location, a high quality, customized, graduate program in software engineering as well as to reflect on its strong and weak points and improve it. More importantly, through intense interaction with the Bank´s IT Management, to ensure that the academic program matches their actual needs. The technology transfer, the customized training and the challenges are discussed.