A curriculum of professional practice in IT engineering education from industry perspective

Abstract

To help IT-related undergraduates and postgraduates understand an engineering culture while cultivating essential engineers' qualifications, this author proposes a system of related professional practice courses from industry perspectives. First, the author describes deficiencies in current university curriculum design as well as the status quo and development trend in the IT industry. Then, this poster introduces the purpose of curriculum, i.e., to cultivate the basic engineers' qualifications for undergraduates and postgraduates, and to develop communication capabilities, critical thinking approach and business acumen of students. The poster proposes the scope of the curriculums that can be professionally practiced with limited class hours, including three dimensions such as engineer development culture history, industry engineering methodology, and business acumen. The poster introduces the contents, the objectives, class hours and assessment methods for each dimension in detail. Considering both the characteristics of undergraduates and postgraduates during the learning phase and the cultivation of future abilities of engineers, the author uses two measures which include the report and small project to cultivate students' written communication skills and ability to solve problems by utilizing engineering methodologies. Next, the poster introduces course including the name, class hours, fields, objectives, teaching methods and assessment methods by the semester sequence. Specific course content design includes the history of the development of the IT industry culture, the industry's good practice and engineering methodology and classic professional books. Then, the author interprets interactive teaching approaches to assist students to understand engineering related conception and methodology. Finally, the author describes improvement plan.