TY - GEN
T1 - Professional Communication Education through Academia-Industry Collaborations
T2 - 2019 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, ProComm 2019
AU - Rawboon, Khwanruethai
AU - Wongsatanawarid, Atikorn
AU - Yamazaki, Atsuko K.
AU - Inoue, Masahiro
N1 - Funding Information:
ITAP is a technology support program for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Thailand, under the National Science and Technology Development Agency through KMUTT’s management. The program offers financial support and consultancy services to help SMEs meet the challenges in introducing technology–based products and processes with the assistance of Industrial Technology Advisors, experts, researchers, and students from universities and research institutes (Fig. 2).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - Professional communication skills are essential to achieve success in career for engineering graduates. Currently, many employers are looking for graduates with strong professional communication skills. The criteria for accreditation of engineering programs by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) also require that communication skills should be integrated into the graduate curriculum. In this study, we present some examples of engineering programs in two Asian universities, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) in Thailand and Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT) in Japan, where the professional communication skills of students are developed through university-industry collaborations. Both KMUTT and SIT have implemented educational programs through collaboration with industries to prepare students to deal with globalization and the ever-expanding innovative ecosystem. These programs are designed to help students acquire the required skill sets and work experience as part of their curriculum.
AB - Professional communication skills are essential to achieve success in career for engineering graduates. Currently, many employers are looking for graduates with strong professional communication skills. The criteria for accreditation of engineering programs by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) also require that communication skills should be integrated into the graduate curriculum. In this study, we present some examples of engineering programs in two Asian universities, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) in Thailand and Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT) in Japan, where the professional communication skills of students are developed through university-industry collaborations. Both KMUTT and SIT have implemented educational programs through collaboration with industries to prepare students to deal with globalization and the ever-expanding innovative ecosystem. These programs are designed to help students acquire the required skill sets and work experience as part of their curriculum.
KW - Engineering education
KW - professional communication
KW - project based learning
KW - university industry linkage.
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U2 - 10.1109/ProComm.2019.00038
DO - 10.1109/ProComm.2019.00038
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85071579121
T3 - IEEE International Professional Communication Conference
SP - 178
EP - 184
BT - Proceedings - 2019 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, ProComm 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 23 July 2019 through 26 July 2019
ER -