Editorial Perspectives on Industry-Integrated Engineering and Computing Education and Fostering the Socio-Economic Development Role of Engineering and Technology Schools

Industry-integrated engineering and technology education have been hot topics during the past couple of years (Fitz-Coy et al. 2002; Duffy et al. 2007; Sahama et al. 2008; Ilozor and Kelly 2012; Veillard 2012, 2015; Shin et al. 2013; Bouras et al. 2014; Kovalev et al. 2015; Mutereko and Wedekind 2016; Abdulwahed and Hasna 2016; Wilke and Magenheim 2017; Nickola 2017; Shen et al. 2018; Mardis et al. 2018; Samuel et al. 2018; Gasmi and Bouras 2018; Coskun et al. 2019; Parsons and MacCallum 2019).