A framework for designing a market-oriented curriculum for the degree of information system engineering

Designing a comprehensive curriculum for information system engineering (ISE) that accounts for the needs and expectations of the students, the current trends and advances in the field, and the skills required by the job market is an extremely demanding task. The curriculum must balance the highest academic standards and integrity against the emerging expectations of the market. Here, we identify the specific requirements of a newly commissioned ISE curriculum, and we explain the framework we adopted and developed in the process. We based the framework on a commonly recognized information system model namely service-oriented architecture (SOA). Thus, we derived the different knowledge areas to be covered in the curriculum from the layers of the SOA style.