Resumen de The role of collaborative capstone projects—experiences from education, research and industry
Anne Hess, Dieter Rombach 
, Ralf Carbon, Daniel F. Murphy, Michael Hoeh, Christian Bartolein
An integral part of software engineering curricula at universities are practical classes or projects that enable students to applytheoretical knowledge gained in lectures on concrete practical examples. Practical projects, in particular, defined as university-industry collaborations provide the potential of being very beneficial especially in graduate education: in such realistic projectsettings, students can experience real-life software engineering challenges and achieve learning objectives that go beyond typical learning objectives of practical assignments during classes or even practical projects defined by faculty members. However, suchcollaborative projects have to be planned carefully and also come with various challenges. In this article, authors from academiaand industry share their experiences gained during a history of successfully conducted collaborative projects. These experiencescomprise objectives, benefits, challenges and lessons learned both from an educational viewpoint (i.e., students, supervisors),research viewpoint (supervisors), and industry viewpoint (customer). The experiences summarized in this article could serve asmotivation and valuable information for other universities and industry companies intending to plan and organize collaborativeprojects of this kind.
