Working with industry

We are looking for potential partners across all sectors to excite, inspire, and challenge our next generation of software engineers.

We have successfully partnered with organisations across south Wales and further afield to provide students with the opportunity to work on client-based projects and with employment opportunities, ranging from short-term student internships, professional placement years and graduate roles.

Over the years, our students have:

designed an online tool to report illegal fly-tipping in Wales for Natural Resources Wales
created a bespoke client database for a business trading in high-value second-hand clothing
designed a large-scale automated IoT router configuration for BT Group
worked with Cardiff University School of Dentistry to combat anxiety in young children visiting the Dental Hospital for treatment

These projects have all been conceived from a fundamental business problem, which the client (organisation) has posed to the students to design and develop a solution that delivers a minimal viable product (MVP) for them to take a decision on how to progress the solution to commercial development and deployment.

Partner opportunities

There are a range of opportunities for partners to get involved. You can:

provide live client projects for students to develop and acquire skills
mentor students both face-to-face and at a distance
present guest seminars or skill sessions
provide summer placements and graduate opportunities for students
provide sponsorship and bursary opportunities for students
sponsor a prize/incentive for students
assist with marketing and publicity

“The students showed really mature design and problem-solving skills where they had thought through the requirements and surfaced the more complex design and scoping questions. The projects that were built were both functionally rich and the UIs were well presented and had a good logical flow. Given the design brief was quite high level by the time we had the clarification meeting, the students were well prepared, and questions raised were very insightful.”

Francois van der Merwe, Solutions Architect, Wales & West Utilities