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For one hand, graduates students from university cannot find a job. For another, enterprises cannot find a proper employee. This embarrassing situation needs university make reform from traditional structure of education in China. We need to do something to change this phenomenon. This article focuses on integration of education and industry, it is one method try to solve this problem.
This paper is a short story of my adventures of the past 20 years trying to integrate academic research with software engineering problems in industry. I share the challenges I encountered on the way, my failures and successes, evolution of my research, and its adoption in industry. Though I faced many hardships, I feel great satisfaction in knowing that my research is applied today in the design...
Standing research regarding collaborations between universities and the public/private sector highlights promising benefits for both stakeholders involved. However, as of now, such collaboration is still rare and needs therefore further investigation. This qualitative case study takes up two main purposes. Firstly, it explores Information Technology (IT) needs and challenges in Mozambique for governmental...
The importance of universities in national, regional and local systems is obvious and the universities are aware of this impact. The environment or local society in which they operate requires quantification of impacts and so this problem increases attention of all stakeholders. The paper deals with the fields of action of universities in regional and local context. It also includes comparison of...
Universities have offered their online academic services to their stakeholders from all over the world through website, in order to gain competitive edge in the universities requirements to maintain the quality of their websites on the basis of different criteria. The major aim of this paper is to evaluate the quality of three universities websites in Chennai city, India through analytical hierarchy...
Knowledge management systems, or KMS, have been widely adopted in businesses, and little research exists on the integration of these systems in the field of higher education. Knowledge management systems were developed to support and enhance the organizational processes in agreement with the strategy of the organization. Our objective is to shed light on the consequences of knowledge management systems...
The purpose of this paper is to examine whether university background significantly influences employers' views in selecting a new engineer in Malaysia industries. This paper briefly presents the employers' preference for university of engineering graduates. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 301 employers of Malaysian industries and the respondents were restricted to personnel at the higher...
At the time students' finish their academic educational level within a current educational system, a big gap appears to exist between the acquired knowledge and the needed knowledge to enter the job world. This situation provokes certain disconcert about the necessity for adaptation period to be properly integrated in the working environment. For this reason, the inclusion of a new subject into the...
This paper describes a case of study developed in engineering degrees in order to transmit ethical values. The goal of this work is to show a specific example as a starting point to introduce students in a more ethical world. The case has been developed for eight years. By the middle of the course period, students are invited to think about how to take advantage of their stay in university in order...
In recent years, the evolution of Global Software Development (GSD) has grown both rapidly and significantly, and although the efficiency of this new type of development has been proven, some challenging issues must still be confronted. Of all these, our research line is focused on designing the specific training that members of virtual teams must receive. Universities and companies therefore need...
This paper examines the patterns of organizational culture in Malaysian R & D institutions. The study was based on three types of research institutions in Malaysia namely the government research institutes (GRI), private R & D companies (PRC) and universities. Results show that there are some cultural aspects that are amenable to innovation while some others are not. The study would be able...
The global crisis had caused the decline of many financial institutions and had caused many problems in Brazil and abroad, which raises the question: how to increase profits at a time of crisis? In a decreasing consumption situation corporations must reducing energy costs to improve operating profit. Energy management is an important tool to solve this problem. In Brazil information about energy management...
Increasing globalization and opportunities for engineers around the world to work or study anywhere mean challenges for universities wanting the best students as well as for the companies wanting for the most skilled staff. The social and economic conditions of the country where the student has studied have an impact on his level of knowledge though the attained degree is similar in all countries...
In the competitiveness study, static analysis can not accurately describe the dynamic development process of the competitiveness, and the dynamic nature is a prominent feature of the competitiveness. Therefore, the dynamic should be included in competitiveness study. In this paper, we select the annual audited data with the application of grey relational analysis method to make empirical analysis...
From the perspective of a large technology-driven corporation, this paper discusses key aspects of university-industry-government partnerships. The focus is how relationships and processes might improve to efficiently optimize benefit to all parties in a complex environment.
Research and development is essential to an enterprisepsilas growth, and how to manage R&D from a global perspective is an important issue faced by multinational companies (MNCs). The mainstream of R&D activities in China is said to consist of industry-academy partnerships. This paper introduces the case study of a unique industry-academy R&D partnership initiated by an MNC and proposes...
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