Using part-time students to improve the student experience

This paper was presented at the 2008 Engineering Conference - Innovation Good Practice and Research in Engineering Education.

This paper describes how work based part time undergraduate students can support and enhance the fulltime student experience and how their industry knowledge and experience is formally recognised by the use of Contact with Practice credits. The benefits for both the full time and part time students will be presented together with the mechanism adopted for awarding credit. The paper will also describe how this industry focus is part of a Faculty initiative to further develop professional skills.