The document proposes several ideas for improving computer science students' ability to obtain high-quality jobs: 1) Establishing a board of directors at the CS department with industry and community leaders to help develop the curriculum and strategic plan. 2) Having CS professors do 6-month sabbaticals at local industry to stay up-to-date and conceive new projects for students. 3) Engaging the CS department in a network with institutions that accept students for work placements, similar to open source networks that develop useful industry software through consortiums of companies and universities.

1. Proposal Ideas for improving the ability of Computer Science students in obtaining high
quality jobs on the community ,business an industry.
Luis Eugenio Bravo Soza
1. Idea Generation
1. Improve curricula by reviewing all courses with outside people from the industry.
2. Include a board of director at CS department with directors from the industry.
3. Increase the number and length of summer practice of students at the community.
4. Include Industry project proposal for software engineering course.
5. Include an open platform(like coursera) where University and Industry can interact.
6. Include some functionalities so students can interchange ideas with communities
leaders.
7. Develop an e-news letter describing interesting problems from the industry side.
8. You tube videos of industry and communities leaders.
9. Grants (from the industry) for research problems on special matters.
10. CS professor work on sabbatical(6 month) at the industry.
11. Top managers work at the university for 6 month giving talks and conducting
projects.
12. Student Final projects could work on industry problems.
13.Project proposal by the community an industry.
14.Open seminar on interesting projects and problems proposal from the communities.
15.Credit student seminar at the industry(4 weeks) for identify interesting problems at
the communities or industry site.
16.Industry Leaders talk at the University site.
17.Engagement of the University Computer Science department with a network of
institutions where managers and leaders have some compromise of accepting
students on their work placement.
18.Students technology tours in China industries or other countries.
19.Student interchange with other universities in the same country or other countries.
20. Price rewards for the best problem solutions in a particular field.
21.Establish Industry labs at the university area
22.Special financing from the industry for the development of an area problem.
23.Open a list of internal area problems where the student could work obtain some
money and practice.
24.Software industry offers training courses on their technologies for some curricula
credit.
25.Use labs at the industry site and vice versa.
26.Student as workers in labour duties at packing fruits, body car shops, hardware
shops and other places where students can analyse be first hand real problems
where they can contribute to real technology solutions.
27.Summer work on Robotic laboratories as labour workers where the help senior
engineers in designing and assemble complex machines.
28.Astronomy camps. Many observatories-like Alma in Chile- need maintainers of
software, documenters, and small improvements that can be made by new
programmers.
29.Create “Open Projects” like a new platform for a general problem like a knowledge
management system for documents. So students and researchers collaborate
improving and programming new functionalities.
30.A network of mentors for guiding new software engineers looking for some research
and development action.

2. Step 2 - Idea Selection
1. Include a board of director at the CS department with directors from the industry
and community.
It very important that in the curricula for a CS student is well focused on the real
need of competence that student must have after finishing their studies. So the
participation of leaders and IT managers from the industry and community could
help in developing a strategic plan for the CS department in terms of lines of
research , strategic developments and technologies that should be taught in the
curricula.
2. CS professor work on sabbatical(6 month) at the industry.
Working and the local industry is a very rich experience for someone that is
lecturing and studying all day long. It´s very important not to loose contact with the
reality and knowing how useful is the stuff we teach at the university. During the
sabbatical period the professor must conceive a new project useful for the company
where is working. In the near future the project could be done by the students of the
CS department.
3. Engagement of the University Computer Science department with a network of
institutions where managers and leaders have some compromise of accepting
students on work placement.
This is a very interesting idea copied from the open source movement. The
development of useful industry software for an industry, a hospital, or any other
institution is a very big inversion on effort and money. Most institution can’t afford
this enterprise, but as a consortium of companies maybe they can. Their are many
examples where these “open consortium did work. Examples are many, like the
Linux, Mozila, Apache and many others. If many companies design a new software,
for example for e-commerce- maybe with a network of developers and supporters
and universities you accomplish good and useful software generating a solution for
the industry and generating lost of knowledge and experience for young
programmers.