Enhancing learning outcomes from industry engagement in Australian engineering education
Industry engagement, commonly implemented as a 12 week industry placement during a vacation towards the end of the degree, has traditionally been a provider-mandated component of externally accredited professional engineering degrees in Australia. Such placements are intended to bridge knowledge and capability gaps between academic study and engineering employment and contextualise the final phase of academic study. Changes in the composition of Australia's engineering industries have made it progressively harder to source such placements. In-curriculum exposure to engineering practice has als ... Show more
Authors: Male, Sally; King, Robin
Published: Burwood, Victoria, Deakin University, 2019
Resource type: Article
Access item: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/jtlge/article/view/792
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