Projects that are proposed by companies are an excellent way of building a relationship between the University and local enterprise. Through a long history of such projects there is significant evidence that such projects are extremely beneficial to students’ experience both from a learning point of view and the satisfaction of doing work that is ‘needed’.  This project sought to quantify the value to the company. 

Aims & Objectives

• Assess a number of current employer-led group projects to establish whether the delivered work and companies’ engagement with a group of students has a positive value which can be quantified
• Share the findings of the above experiment with other project leads as part of this regional project so that they may inform the development of different strands of activity
• Disseminate the findings to the wider HE STEM community via SW Spoke events and other relevant platforms such as the annual Engineering and Product Design Education Conference