IT STUDIES AND IT INDUSTRY – A CASE STUDY dr inż. Grzegorz Kozieł, Ph.D. M.Sc. dr inż. Marek Milosz, Ph.D. M.Sc. Lublin University of Technology

2 PROBLEM FORMULATION Rapid development of IT industry in Poland has been accelerating Demand for IT domain workers has grown up rapidly It has been impossible for universities to train enough graduates Variety of firms caused variety of workers requirements

3 IT STUDIES AT THE LUBLIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY At a bachelor level full time studies we offer 150 places At master level of full time studies we offer 90 places Additionally we can educate 60 students at each level of part time studies

MASTER LEVEL IT STUDIES IN COOPERATION WITH INDUSTRY It studies has been changed. The uniform studies were replaced by two level studies The master level studies were created from scratch It firms were invited to create IT studies 4

5 IT firms role in studies creation Discussion about market demandments, workers requirements, new technologies, present problems with our graduates At the base of discussion the new studies program was created It firms has offered practices and apprenticeships It firms took part in diplomas creation – Fifms gave topics and supervisors who took care about practical part of thesis

6 Requirements variety To fullfill requirements of a big part of firms various specializations were created: internet applications, software generation technologies, operation of IT systems, multimedia systems and applications; ICT systems, mobile systems and multimedia techniques.

Final impact Graduates and students are very attractiwe on labour market 50% of our students joined apprenticeships in the first turn Over 50% of students that joined apprenticeships program have started full time job in firms where they were trainees About 60% of students had a part time job in IT firms 7

Conclusion Work performed during new specializations creation has built a good picture of Lublin University of Technology among IT firms All specializations were created in order to answer the needs of local business About 60 percent of second semester students work in IT firms as IT specialists during their studies. Most of them are computer programmers 8

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