Collaboration between Industry and Engineering Education

Abstract

At present the industry needs an engineer to master cross-disciplinary competencies and general skills in terms of outcome based education, basis for continuing education and development. Every engineer does not have to master all of these skills and competencies, since sharing knowledge and networking are ways to both deepen and widen personal knowledge into a competent team or network. The educational factors for the student studying engineering technologies lie in the practical R&D processes. The students were assigned to the on job training in the actual R&D in the practical industrial sides. The frameworks that can be deployed across various institutes foe fostering creativity and innovation. The framework envisages various path ways such as research, corporate, socio managerial and entrepreneurial. The frame work would have the facility to develop a network of various educational institutes especially to share the learning in this area. Education is always a relevant issue for those of us in the electronics industry. It affects not only our technological status in the world but also the availability and competency of qualified graduates to fill job openings. If you aren't paying attention to education, now is the time to give it some time. The industry and academia both support the creation of more industry-college partnerships, internships, and industry participation. Meanwhile, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education in the K through 16 grades is ongoing, but more needs to be done to attract more students to fill the pipeline to employment in engineering.