Final year projects with involvement of industry and high schools
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2008
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Nafalski, A.
Nedic, Z.
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Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE, 2008, pp.7-11
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38th ASEE/IEEE frontiers in education conference (22 Oct 2008 - 25 Oct 2008 : Saratoga Springs NY, USA)
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In the final year of undergraduate degree programs in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of South Australia (UniSA), students accomplish hands-on design projects that account for a quarter of the year's academic credit load. The majority of the projects, depending on a year - between 60% and 80% - are industry sponsored, i.e. industry defines the project specification and provides industry supervisor(s) and resources in cash and/or inland contributions. This gives students an opportunity to develop links with industry and build up their skills, knowledge and industry-relevant practical experience in a specialised engineering field, facilitating their rapid industrial employment. Recently also high school students have been involved in these projects, as reported in the paper. The program has been successfully running for the past 3 years and proved to bring benefits to high school students, university students and also to companies that participate in the program. © 2008 IEEE.
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