The University of Sheffield
Department of Computer Science

Industrial Advisory Board 2017-18

Function
The Department is keen to identify strong links to industry and industrial practice. It consists of representatives of major companies in the IT industry – IBM, EDS, BT, HSBC as well as more specialist consultancies and companies. The Industrial Liaison Board meets twice a year and discusses issues relating to the curriculum, to employment and to research collaborations. The industrial members are extremely supportive of the Department and its students. They are very enthusiastic about the high quality of graduates that we produce and particularly interested in some of our industrial projects carried out by students in our courses. They appreciate that our students, with their help, have a big advantage other graduates from other universities in their awareness and experience of real projects and business issues. In May the meeting also coincides with our 3rd year project demonstrations and the industrial members always take a great interest in the projects done by our students – it is a good opportunity to identify potential recruits! In November the Department runs an Industrial IT Conference for students in years 3, 4 and the MSc. This conference is run by our industrial colleagues and focuses on some of the key issues pertaining to current large scale software development in industry. This is a very valuable, and popular, event which adds an extra dimension to the 'normal' computer science curriculum.

Dates of Forthcoming Meetings

  • Wednesday 9 May 2018
  • Wednesday 5 September 2018

Apologies to: Stacey Jaouane

Agenda and Minutes
Wednesday 9 May 2018 Agenda
  Minutes
Wednesday 5 September 2018 Agenda
  Minutes
External Membership

 

Internal Membership
Fabio Ciravegna Chair of Industrial Liaison

Guy Brown
Head of Department
Yoshi Gotoh
Projects Officer
Emma Norling
Accreditation and BCS contact
Yoshi Gotoh
Director ITMB Course
Mike Stannet
Director of MSc Courses
Mike Holcombe Director of ACRC
Phil McMinn
Director of Teaching
Chris Murray Managing Director, epiGenesys
Kirill Bogdanov
Placements Officer
Lucia Specia
Lecturer
Stacey Jaouane Minutes
   
   

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