Experiences With Gap-Bridging Software Engineering Industry-Academia Collaborative Education Program

University-level software engineering education faces the challenge of providing both fundamental concepts while delivering to their students the latest trend in tools and practices. However, software engineering programs may not be capable of solving those challenges with their own resources. In this paper, we present our experience in solving those challenges by cooperating with an industrial partner by developing a collaboration program to provide knowledge of the latest industrial software engineering practice. We discovered that the program has several other benefits besides providing knowledge of industrial software engineering practice. However, challenges and concerns still need to be solved and addressed to ensure the proper execution of the collaboration program.