Examples of best practice of university-industry collaboration in the domain of electro-CAD application by using EPLAN P8 and E-learning systems

Requirements of the industry are reflected into the curricula of the universities oriented to application oriented sciences. Nevertheless, a coordination of the teaching contents to the industrial requirements often does not work efficiently enough because, on the one hand, the dynamism of the changes of the useful teaching contents becomes sluggish at the universities compared with the industry, on the other hand it often does not come to the desired long-term collaboration between universities and industrial companies. In this work different collaboration examples are presented. Also the state of the art of a successful collaboration and the further development of certification program between university and a next-door international enterprise in Cologne, Germany, in the domain of the Electro-CAD application are presented. Special look is give on the technical part of data exchange management. Some examples of such collaboration in the everyday practice at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences by use of the E-learning systems ILIAS and EPLAN Electric P8 software are presented.