A new computer science course is being developed in acollaboration with faculty at three universities and industrialpartners, the purpose of which is to bridge the gap between theory andpractice and to promote a partnership between industry and academia.Industrial partners provide requirements statements for real problemsfrom their own workload. Students use their knowledge to designsolutions by applying research ideas. The course differs significantlyfrom standard industrial project courses in that the case-studies areused both for instructional as well as project purposes and arecarefully chosen and designed a priori. The course has the followingbroad objectives: to expose students to a variety of prototypicalreal-world projects; to apply, in a noncompartmentalized manner, acombination of formal and theoretical concepts, techniques and resultsin real situations; to illustrate recent theoretical research results inthe context of a chain of applications leading to the solution of areal-world problem; and to involve students in design and implementationof one or two subsystems while being conscious of the subsystem role inthe overall system being developed
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