Closing the Gap Between Software Engineering Education and Industrial Needs

Many recent software engineering graduates often face difficulties when beginning their professional careers, due to misalignment of the skills learned in their university education with what is needed in industry. In this article, we report a literature review of the studies that have been done to...

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Published inIEEE software Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 68 - 77
Main Authors Garousi, Vahid, Giray, Gorkem, Tuzun, Eray, Catal, Cagatay, Felderer, Michael
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.03.2020
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
Colleges & universities
Computer science
Computer science education
Curricula
Education courses
Employment
Engineering education
Engineering graduates
Graduates
important skills
industry needs
Information systems
Knowledge engineering
knowledge gap
Knowledge gaps
Literature reviews
Misalignment
Professional aspects
Professional careers
Software engineering
Software engineering curricula
software engineering curriculum
Software engineering education
Systematic literature review (SLR)
University education
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Summary:Many recent software engineering graduates often face difficulties when beginning their professional careers, due to misalignment of the skills learned in their university education with what is needed in industry. In this article, we report a literature review of the studies that have been done to make improvements on this issue.
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ISSN:0740-7459
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DOI:10.1109/MS.2018.2880823