Can Industry and Academia Collaborate to Meet the Need for Software Engineers?

Posted May 31, 2001 | Leadership |

Are you an IT director who has been able to hire a sufficient number of adequately trained software employees in a timely manner? If so, you are in the minority. A recent study commissioned by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) indicates that there were 1.6 million open positions for information technology (IT) workers last year, and only half of those positions were likely filled [3].

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Heidi Ellis
Terry Mead
Nancy Mead
Nancy Mead is senior member of the technical staff in the Networked Survivable Systems Program of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and a faculty member in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Mead is currently involved in the study of survivable systems architectures and the development of professional infrastructure for software engineers. Her research interests are in the areas of software… Read More
Jorge Moreno
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Al Moreno
Al Moreno is cofounder and coprincipal of Sinecon, a business intelligence consultancy specializing in data integration for BI/DW solution architecture design. He has more than 20 years of data warehouse and business intelligence experience and has implemented many large-scale solutions in both the US and European markets. Mr. Moreno can be reached at amoreno at sinecon-llc.com.
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