Graduating from Classroom: Industry Project Program
The idea of the industry project program is not new. Lots of postgraduate degree programs offer capstone projects or work integrated learning opportunity with an industry partner. So why is this program different?
Well it’s the way that SAS Australia runs the program.
First – SAS works with those universities who as part of the SAS Global Academic Program collaborate with SAS around either an undergraduate or postgraduate teaching program. It means students are already learning about AI, Data and Technology before they arrive at the industry project program.
Second – participant have the opportunity to work with either SAS or our customers. This means the industry project program offers a wide range of business challenge scenarios for the teams to engage with.
Third – we provide access to the latest and greatest AI technology platform where the students can build and teste their hypothesis and models. And the app is based in the cloud, making it quick and easy for teams to focus on the important stuff: solving the business problem.
Fourth – teams are introduced to the analytics lifecycle and guided how to use this methodology to drive insights about the data being used and the hypothesis being tested.
Finally – industry mentors advise how the teams should project manage the project, provide regular feedback on the teams progression and work with the teams to prepare a presentation that is delivered to industry and subject matter experts.
Here’s one we prepared earlier
Recently two University of Canberra students, Milica Gallardo Petkovich and Tzuwei Tsai, took part in the industry project program. Both students were learning about AI, Data and technology as part of their degree program. They project that both students worked on was to develop a data-driven solutions for home loan origination scorecard.
The project main goal was to leverage AI and SAS Viya for Learners to enhance risk management and decision-making in the Australian Mortgage Industry. 20 students participated, forming 4 groups, who each worked collaboratively to address this real-world problem.
5 mentor sessions were run where the students presented their work to date to a team of industry mentors with the valuable feedback and coaching helping the students develop their technology, AI and business problem solving skills.
In fact SAS was so impressed with 2 students – we hired them. You can read their story here.
What Next?
Simple. If you are reading this article and interested to know more, reach out to us at academic@oz.sas.com. If you’re in industry and want to leverage the connections that the SAS Academic Program has in Australia to recruit students to participate in your industry project, let us know. Or if you just want to be introduced to one of the many higher education partners we work with, we here to help. And if you’re a academic and want to know more about the SAS Global Academic Program, we’re here to help.
