Providing Advice on Course Content
Seeking employer input on course content ensures that your students are developing the knowledge and skills valued by industry and helps employers understand your programme.
“Ben is able to provide valuable advice on syllabus content in the marine programmes as far as the needs of industry are concerned.”Peter Dyson, School of Engineering, University of Plymouth
Case Study
School of Engineering, University of Plymouth
A very useful link with Babcock Marine (formerly DML) has been established. Firstly one of their Senior Naval Architects, Ben, delivers two lectures/workshops on regulatory issues to a Naval Architecture module. Ben was previously a ship surveyor with Lloyd's and so has many years of experience in this field.
This link has led to other benefits. Another member of staff at Babcock, a graduate of Plymouth, gives a lecture on computational methods in industry, while Ben is able to provide valuable advice on syllabus content in the marine programmes as far as the needs of industry are concerned. He has now joined a newly formed Industrial Advisory Committee.
Tips
- Go ahead and ask - many industrialists are delighted to have an input to graduate education
- Industrial advisory committees need to strike a balance between being small enough to be workable and get reasonable agreement and large enough to be sufficiently representative
Resources
Time: A few hours per year for liaison and advisory committee meetings, which tend to be after 5pm
