This paper presents several case studies of asian colleges`s co-op program for successful operation of KOREATECH IPP (Industry Professional Practice) program. The IPP program is a new educational model that combines academic study and industrial work ...
This paper presents several case studies of asian colleges`s co-op program for successful operation of KOREATECH IPP (Industry Professional Practice) program. The IPP program is a new educational model that combines academic study and industrial work through university-industry cooperation. The IPP experience will lead the university graduates to improve their employment competencies and will be a key to solve the problems of the labor mismatch between university and industry. We will discuss and analyze the strengths and the weaknesses of the Co-op programs of the Kyoto sangyo university, the Hong Kong polytechnic university and the suranaree university in thailand. Based on these case studies, we summarized several benchmarking points for the successful operation of IPP program.