Engineering a successful partnership between academia and the financial industry: A software engineering program for IT professionals

Abstract

This paper describes an ongoing partnership between the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems at Pace University, a Registered Education Provider (REP) for IEEE and the Information Technology Division at Bank of New York Mellon. The goal of the project is to deliver at the bank's location, a high quality, customized, graduate program in software engineering as well as to reflect on its strong and weak points and improve it. More importantly, through intense interaction with the Bank's IT Management, to ensure that the academic program matches their actual needs. The technology transfer, the customized training and the challenges are discussed.