Title :
Continuing professional development programs in university-industry co-operations
Author :
Fink, F.K. ; Tongeren, S.K. ; Simak, B. ; Nemeth, G. ; Mazet, L. ; Ramos, F.
Author_Institution :
Aalborg Univ., Denmark
Abstract :
Given the speed with which development takes place in the telecommunications field, the need for continuing professional development (CPD) programs are outspoken. Industry needs to find ways of bringing new knowledge to the extremely busy employees in a flexible and need-lead fashion. Universities need to find ways to identify industry needs and to make CPD programs available to industry in an appropriate, learner-based way. On this background, 17 key telecom players in 6 countries, who all are concerned with the best way to meet the continuously changing need for engineering knowledge in an industry under rapid growth, will address this problem in a LEONARDO Pilot project. The project "PRO-Active Continuing Professional Development in the European Telecommunication Industry"-PRO-ACTT will focus on setting up a joint transnational industry-university co-operation.
Keywords :
continuing education; educational courses; personnel; professional aspects; teaching; telecommunication engineering education; LEONARDO Pilot project; PRO-ACTT; continuing professional development; employees; engineering knowledge; telecommunications field; transnational university-industry cooperation; Communication industry; Companies; Continuing professional development; GSM; Knowledge engineering; Manufacturing industries; Mobile communication; Multimedia databases; Telecommunications; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 1999. FIE '99. 29th Annual
Conference_Location :
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5643-8
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.1999.839247