Goals
- To provide experiential learning for our students within the Information Systems & Decision Sciences (ISDS) program
- To engage faculty members in meaningful ways with different businesses and organizations within the Tampa Bay region, as well as provide mentoring opportunities for our faculty with ISDS students
- To provide local businesses and organizations with a real solution to an issue or problem that they face within the areas associated with the ISDS program
Executive Summary
The ISDS Practice Center is a new initiative targeted to enrich our students with new skills and experiences in doing “real world” projects sponsored by industry partners. Students would work in groups of two performing collaborative team-based projects. Every project would be supervised by at least one ISDS faculty mentor and at least one representative of the project-sponsoring industry partner. Typically, projects would be scoped to last a semester. Based on a project's outcome or the nature of the project, an industry partner could sponsor the next phase or a new project for an additional semester. Some flexibility is built into this program for situations where the project start date cannot coincide with the start of the semester, or where industry partners require students to work on multiple projects. However, the selection of projects should be based on some learning objectives. There is also some flexibility as to the location where students do their project work – USF campus and/or sponsoring industry partner facilities.
