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Education of Well-trained Engineers is Not Possible Without Consistent Co-operation Between the Industry and Academia
FISITA2014/F2014-EDU-028

Authors

Klemenc, Jernej; - University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

In the paper a specific/innovative approach for educating engineers that was developed at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at University of Ljubljana (UL-FME) will be presented. It will be shown, how the combination between an academic research and a co-operation with the local industry resulting from common R&D centres (e.g. Centre for R&D evaluations at UL-FME) resulted in improved pool of skills of young engineers entering the industry. This was achieved without major changes made to the curriculum, which is usually perceived as a »must-to-do activity« to raise the applicability/employability of the fresh engineers.

KEYWORDS Industrial-academic co-operation, applied student's projects, industry-based Ph.D. research

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