An Educational Strategy Based on Information Technologies and the Collaboration between Academy and Industry for Software Engineering Education and Training

Software engineering is a practical discipline, which requires competencies to develop economical and feasible solutions. Undergraduate students must be educated and trained to perform the roles required for software development in order to create that kind of solutions. Practice and training in real world are important factors to achieve the required level of competencies. Collaboration between academy and industry can generate proper scenarios for real practices. However, commonly there is a misconnection between these parts due to the fact that their interests and activities are different. This paper exposes an educational strategy designed for a software engineering specialization inside a computer engineering undergraduate program. This strategy is supported by an information technology infrastructure, which allows an active collaboration of clients and employers in the education process in a distance-participation environment.