Broad partnership of an engineering program with industry: a success story

• Autores: Kahina Lasfer, Art Pyste, Tal Ben-Zvi
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 29, no. Extra 6, 2013, págs. 1429-1439
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • As part of its overall strategy, the Systems Engineering (SE) graduate program at an Engineering School has adopted a broadpartnership with industry, which consists of sponsorship of professional students to complete a Masters and/or PhD degree in SE.The main objective of the present study is to evaluate the impact of a Graduate Systems Engineering Program (GSEP) of this smalluniversity in the workplace through assessment of the program sponsors’ satisfaction and the performance of the program’sprofessional student graduates in their jobs. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected for the period 2004–2010 to assess andevaluate GSEP through survey questionnaires, interviews, and course evaluations.The results of this study revealed that overall up to 95% of the program sponsors and its students are satisfied with the program.The main reasons for partnering with the present studied institution were stated by the program sponsors to be tailoring theprogram and its courses to their needs and offering the program at the sponsors’ sites. Through its broad partnership withindustry, GSEP corporate partners were able to successfully deploy SE concepts and understand the value that SE brings to theirorganizations.