A consideration for new employee education by the industry-university cooperation

Abstract

Since thirty years ago there has been debate on IT education at universities in Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ). The model curriculum was made as the university and the enterprise cooperated. A corporate member of the committee mentioned that the IT education of the universities is not suitable for the corporates' needs. Until now, companies have executed new employee education for new graduates in their companies, and they have not collaborate on the education with univeristies. In this paper, we proposed a curriculum which is modeled for the collaboration between the university and the enterprise. In our university, we executed a part of the new employee education that had been provided by an enterprise since April 2010. The education program consists of two courses (Tokyo course for new empolyees in IT companies in Tokyo and Hamamatsu course for new employees in IT companies near Hamamatsu). The participating trainees' motivation for technological acquisition is high, and as a result, they have acquired the fundamental technical contents corresponding to the contents which sophomore or junior students learn in Shizuoka University. The information education in a current faculty is a fragmentary, wide knowledge education. Therefore even the graduate in another field can catch up easily. We conclude that it is difficult to change the recognition of the enterprise if giving priority to brushing up a basic technology and the skill, and not differentiating. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.