Industry Advisory Board for Software Engineering: Value versus Cost
Frank F. Tsui · 2004
Many instruments are available to help in the guidance of a software engineering program. Software engineering is a new discipline and a pragmatic discipline. Our students in software engineering at Southern Polytechnic State University are counseled to take advantage of the co-op and internship programs which many traditional engineering students participate in. In addition, to ensure that our undergraduate software engineering program is headed towards the right direction from both the industry needs and graduate education perspective, we have established an Industry Advisory Board (IAB) as an instrument to help guide our program. This paper discusses the rationale to establish the IAB, the effort and cost required to establish and to run the IAB, and the value received in return from the IAB.