The Alignment Between Formal Education and Software Design Professionals' Needs in Industry: Faculty Perception

Iryna Ashby is a Ph.D student in the Learning Design and Technology Program at Purdue University with the research interests focused on program evaluation and competency-based education. She is also part of the program evaluation team for the Transdisciplinary Studies in Technology – a new initiative at Purdue Polytechnic aimed to redesign undergraduate student experiences through offering a combination of deep liberal arts experiences with student-driven, hands-on project-based learning.