Students and staff perspectives on academic-industry partnerships in engineering

The university-learning environment in engineering is not sufficient for students to become engineers. The practical role of engineering is working on real world problems in an industry environment. Industry-university collaboration seems to be actively increasing in the development of engineering education in various parts of the globe. The close relationship between industry and university is a vital component of engineering pedagogy in Australia. This research paper is focuses on analyzing students and staff perspectives of academic-industry partnerships. The students and staff are playing vital role in academic and industry partnerships. It is always worth analyzing students´ and staff perspectives about their experience on academic-industry partnerships. This research inclined to conduct a paper based survey with a cohort of students in second year undergraduate engineering course and also conduct face-to-face interview with staff members in the School of Engineering at Deakin University.