But this is changing, says Kathryn Parker, National Champion for the Engineering Development Trust's The Year In Industry programme, which provides paid work placements for students, before or during their degree course.
A university says... Dr Stephen Dorling, meteorologist and director of the year in industry programme, University of East Anglia There's a need for people who have awareness and subject knowledge right across the board of this discipline.
Gerard Van Erp, Craig Cattell and Stephen Ayers of the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, present an overview of Australian research into infrastructure applications of composites and associated industry development programmes.
Although Gaucher disease is a rare disorder, recent developments in novel means for therapeutic intervention have invigorated both academic research and pharmaceutical industry discovery programmes.
36 Furthermore, greater use of industry denormalisation programmes could increase the ambivalence some retailers already feel about selling tobacco, undermine the relationships tobacco companies have developed with retailers, and increase acceptance of policy measures.
1.57pm: a few choice claims: Amongst numerous claims made by Jana Bennett director, BBC Vision, the BBC makes this declaration: "Overseas Gifts - As Director of BBC Vision Ms Bennett was required to travel abroad to meet executives from other parts of the industry, for programme acquisition and to discuss co-operation on international programme projects.
Few had heard of the Toyota Production System (TPS) until three academics in the car industry study programme run by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) wrote a book in 1991 called "The Machine that Changed the World".
By the second world war, it was common practice for Battersea students to undertake a year out in industry, a programme formalised when the college became Battersea Technology College in 1956 and maintained when it moved to its Guildford campus and became the University of Surrey in the late 1960s.
More than 40 competitors have gone on to careers in the food industry, the programme-makers Shine estimate.
The research is funded by the Australian Research Council through its industry Linkage Programme, 15 which aims to promote collaboration between researchers and industry groups to generate rigorous research with practical implications for Australian society.
