Panel Session on Four Models of Industry/Academia Interface

Abstract

I’m happy to be organizing the panel entitled “Four Models of Industry/Academia Interface.” I think that both industry and academia have made pretty significant contributions to software engineering education. However, I think if you added up all the students who have become practitioners, who have gone through Continuing Education Programs or Retraining-type programs at IBM, AT&T, Boeing Computer Services, Hewlett-Packard and Digital, you would probably give the academic people a run for their money, in terms of actual completions through the program and the generation of people doing software engineering. Until recently, many companies not only offered their own courses, but wrote their own texts and designed their own curriculum. Only recently, we have begun to see software engineering courses commonly offered with a few degree programs.